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Recommendable: Yes

Advantages excellent graphics, design with classic look

Disadvantages Price is slightly higher

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Apple MacBook Pro MB133B/A
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Something about background and history
Apple MacBook pro notebooks are most popular available notebooks in the world with its superb graphics and eye catching design and look. Apple has always won the war of IT and computing market by launching superb product time to time. First they introduced iPod and it has change the way of music. After that in notebook line PowerBook was launched and it got huge popularity among consumers. After that in early 2006 MacBook pro series notebook has been launched and after completing almost more than two years, it is more popular notebooks in the market yet. Apple's previous notebooks featured with PowerPC processors but in MacBook they have provided powerful multicore Intel processors with Intel Core 2 Duo and these are the latest available processors till now.
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Here I am going to discuss about beautiful and featured notebook Apple MacBook Pro MB133B/A , from Apple Inc. My target point of discussion will be its excellent features with its advantages and some disadvantaged also.
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Design
First of all I wants to discuss about its attractive design and look with solid construction, it has a average size of Width35.7 cm, Depth24.3 cm, Height2.6 cm, and the another point is its Weight measured as about 2.5 kg. Look and feel of this notebook is very attractive with its classic design and we will feel proud to have this. Body has a solid feelings and plastic material quality is excellent.
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Processing speed
Now if we consider about it Processor that is more important part of any computing machine and this laptop also has a best available processor for notebook with Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2.4 GHz of clock speed and 800 MHz of front size bus. L2 cache size is 3 MB and over all this processor has excellent processing quality and speed. Macbook are generally targeted with highly graphics based notebooks and for better graphics experience, an good processor with better Ram and graphics card are required so in all these terms this notebook deals good.
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Memory
Now the Ram size is average but has a sufficient capacity with 2 GB of DDR2 SDRAM with 667 MHz of speed. Here I want to mention that 667 MHz RAM is slightly older and now there is good 800 MHz RAM is available for notebooks. I think here the RAM size should be 4GB and with compare to its processor 4GB RAM size is more enough in now a days for available applications. If there is a good graphics card available in notebook than the role of RAM can be reduced and it provided better speed in any applications.
Internal storage capacity of this model is something common to comparison with other laptops and that is 200 GB - Serial ATA hard disk drive with 5400 rpm of total speed. Size is not so bad but it is sufficient enough for storage capacity.
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Graphics
So having in mind of good graphics card in notebooks Apple has provided good graphics card for this notebook with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT PCI Express x16, with total available of 256 MB graphics memory. The most important point of this memory is its GDDR3 technology and this is a latest available high speed memory at present. It really impressed me that Apple is providing quality features to its customers and so that its getting high rate of popularity among them.
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Operating system
Operating system is provided with Apple MacOS X 10.5, this is a superb graphics based operating system but most of uses are having familiar with or using Microsoft's Windows, so that they might have problem with this but there is option also available to have Windows in this notebook.
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Power Back-up
Battery life is not so good but it is sufficient with having approximately 3 hours of back-up time, Apple claiming it to 5 hours but that is possible in such special conditions of using this notebook, but as practically the average time is about 3 hours.
Other features are more or less common with compare to other notebooks Networking, camera, audio, Optical drive etc.
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And the bottom line
Over all this is an excellent notebook with high quality graphics and features with superb construction and design. Highly recommended.

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