Macworld's first look at the MacBook

I just got my 1gig of ram (2 x 512) from Newegg this morning and popped it into my brand new White Macbook 2.0. Friends, let's just say going to 1 gig is a HUGE difference! I highly, highly reccomend all of you with 512 to uprade. It will help tremendously to get dual channel ( 2 x something) because of the increased bandwidth for the integrated graphics.

A word of caution, you're going to have to push your ram modules in pretty darn hard. I had to try 3 times to get the macbook to boot up. I was afraid I was breaking something but everything is fine.

I love this keyboard by the way. I love the tactile feel of it.

well I just got my 2 GHz white MacBook yesterday, and have already gone the bot camp route. With the 512 megs of ram, I get about 50 FPS in CoD1, which is more than fine for me. One observation: Windows sees 128 megs of ram for the vid chip instead of 64 megs in OSX. The newest games will probably be slow on this machine, but hey, this is a work machine for me. If I wanted to game so bad on the go, I'd have gone the MBP route.

Long story short: the MacBook is a beauty! I got it with the base amount of ram and HD, because now they're so easy to upgrade yourself and cheap as heck if I get the parts at Fry's instead of at the Apple store :P

Having tried the keyboard (and bought the computer!), it seems a bit clicky, but not too bad. I like a slightly softer key, but I'm not that picky. The keys are sort of like a toned-down IBM-style keyboard--they don't click *that* hard (nor make the sound nor tower that high), but they definitely depress with the same click feeling, like the safety-bump on a jar lid after it's been opened. How's that for an Updike-like level of detail? It's a bit jarring on the fingers, but I expect I'll get used to it.

it says "Built-in omnidirectional microphone" under audio in the tech specs

You checked badly then : http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/comparison_chart.html

Omnidirectional Microphone Built-in

Hello, the macbook has isight but where da heck is the microphone? i checked the tech specs at apple.com and i couldn't find it!!!

My copy of CS seems to run fine... a little slow perhaps, but once the universal one comes out and as long as you have some ram you'll be okay, I'd imagine

People keep talking about the video ram...will I have a problem running Adobe CS on this thing without a dedicated graphics card? I don't care about games. I like the idea of having a smaller notebook.

Anyone's input is appreciated...

It's "you're," not "your."

Mine runs amazing. I love the keyboard. I type faster on it than any old laptop keyboard. Anyway... read my review on my site :D