After dropping off an eMac for repair, I paid a visit to the First Tech showroom in Minneapolis to take a test drive of the new MacBook laptops. The black model is visually very striking and in my opinion, much better looking than the white version (which looks just like the old iBook casing). I spent most of my time on the black demo unit, which had the stock 512MB of RAM and the 2.0GHz dual core Intel processor.

There were four things I wanted to check out in person: 1) the keyboard, 2) the glossy screen, 3) the speed of the integrated graphics and 4) the overall size and weight. (more…)