“Rumors abound”:http://www.macrumors.com/2007/12/10/apple-ultra-portable-macbook-rumor-roundup/ about an ultra-portable Macbook coming up. As someone who once had an ultra-portable laptop and a recent convert to Macs, this info is very delicious. But my Macbook Pro isn’t old enough to replace. It works cherry and for something to show me love, I can’t rightly just toss it aside for the next latest and greatest.

Well, not that it hasn’t happened before. But anyway! What makes an Apple ultra-portable so seductive? Besides the, mostly guaranteed, snazzy design and the cool OS X operating system? LED backlit display for one. “Solid State Drive”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_drive for another. Vibrant imagery after a near instantaneous boot up. Mmm! Part of the rumors mention there wouldn’t be an internal optical drive, but I doubt that’d be a deal breaker as long as it came with an external drive. The ultra-portable I had was a Sony Vaio, it had an internal DVD drive and an SVGA display. Pretty crisp display and when not doing heavy video (couldn’t play much games on it with the shoddy graphics card), the laptop would run for about 4 hours straight on battery. My current Macbook lasts around 3.5 hours when not doing anything strenuous. I wonder how long the potential upcoming Macbook would last?

So exciting! (although I probably wouldn’t get one when it comes out. Maybe.)

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