MacBook Review
it’s now four days since I got my new MacBook “white” after more than 2 months reading and searching to get convinced enough to do that move, and pew I did it 
Let’s start with the hardware specifications, it has 13.3″ widescreen with (LED backlight technology) this extra-awesome hyper saturated colors. (I read a few articles about LED backlighting and it differs from the old CCFL screens, you can read more about that here http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/06/macbook-pro-backlight-comparison-led-vs-ccfl/ ). And it has an Intel 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo processor with 4 megabytes L3 cache, 160GB 5400RPM SATA (low-noise) disk, 2.27kg weight, 5 hours-long battery and Airport Wireless card that supports 802.11n technology with awesome reception accuracy and iSight camera.
It’s a whole new world for me, so expect the next few posts will be about it.
The most astonishing thing for now is the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 64bit, AWESOME operating system, and I can really understand now why apple always said that it’s the most advanced operating system in the world, they are right, it’s. it’s a very well designed for a great user experience and you’ll see many snapshots in the next few posts and well. it has more than 300 new features over the previous version “Tiger 10.4″ and the main thing you’ll notice about mac is that it’s a REAL FAST.
The great news is that most of the well known and famous applications I needed are available for mac, like microsoft office and it’s open source clone open office, adobe creative suite 3, yahoo messenger, MSN messenger and iChat works as an awesome jabber chat client.
I don’t have much time now, but the first thing I’m so happy about is that I chose The white model. That’s because the surface is very finger-print catching and can be easily scratched, but happily the white color hides most of it.
Here is a photo I took using the iSight camera with background replacement effect
edit: added some screenshots
HoNdA said,
April 20, 2008 @ 7:20 am
wooooooooooooow ,congratulations 3o2bly ya rab i hope to get mackbook air i love apple soo much
so u moved to Leopard i like u r way through different OS lollllll
waiting ur reviews
M.M.F said,
April 23, 2008 @ 1:48 am
Congratulation Ahmed
ihab said,
April 24, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
Congratulations
garabt textmate ??
Ahmed S. Farghal said,
April 24, 2008 @ 6:11 pm
@ihab: yes, I have it already
bingorabbit said,
April 25, 2008 @ 6:17 am
Congratz, seems to be a great move, the screenshots really say a lot :), and the specifications masha2 Allah
Congratz again !
El Sayed Gamal (PsychoN) said,
April 28, 2008 @ 8:39 pm
Congratulations
textMate dah Qawe ..
ana shofto fe CBT l Ruby on Rails ..
2nd and 3rd screenshoot mn fo2
dool eeh ??
kamasheto said,
April 28, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
Congrats gedan, looks promising. How much did you pay for it?
@Honda: I wouldn’t go for the MacBook Air if I were you, I read too many awful critics about it. I’d go for the more reliable MacBook if I were you.
kamasheto said,
April 28, 2008 @ 9:20 pm
Oh yeah one last thing, does it support Arabic?
w most importantly, is it easy to adapt to after God knows how long you’ve been using something else?
DIna said,
April 29, 2008 @ 5:38 am
Heyyy ahmed mabrook
begad great choice el MAC malossh 7al
mesh 3arafaa abreek leek wala lel MAC begad
Bahaa Zaid said,
April 29, 2008 @ 6:12 am
Congratulations,
You are the 3rd engineer that gave a good feedback about Mac. I knew Mac give the user a great experience. It also give the developer a greater experience as I know. Apple has its unique way of programming. They use Objective-C programming language and Cocoa framework. They claim Cocoa is the most advanced Application Framework on earth. It enable the developer to write wonderful applications with less code without the need of Managed/Virtual Machined languages (sure I mean Java/C#). I saw a less 20 lines listing that made full rich text editor
That’s what I read about it. But I never try that (due to financial issues
). Did you try MacOS programming? If yes, how do you feel?
Thanks
Ahmed S. Farghal said,
April 30, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
@kamasheto: yes it supports arabic greatly and it works like a charm, and btw moving to mac was pretty easy
About macbook Air, I saw it and it looks sexy but it’s not reliable and the specs are lower than macbook.
@bahaa: yeah it’s, I’m going to test that very soon isA and I’ll keep you updated.
@dina: Thanks, miss you