Apple introduced redesigned MacBook Pro models in April 2010. They all use new Nvidia GPUs and claim to increase battery life – in the case of the 13″ model, from 7 hours to an impressive 10. The 13″ MacBook Pro is the only Pro model to retain the Intel Core 2 CPU – the bigger MacBook Pro.
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This article is about the Apple notebook computer called 'MacBook' sold until February 2012. For the current notebook computer, see. For the family of notebook computers designed by Apple first released in 2006, see.
The MacBook is a of manufactured by from May 2006 to February 2012, and relaunched in 2015. It replaced the series and 12-inch series of notebooks as a part of the Apple-Intel transition from PowerPC. Positioned as the low end of the, below the premium ultra-portable and the powerful, the MacBook was aimed at the consumer and education markets. It was the best-selling ever. For five months in 2008, it was the best-selling laptop of any brand in US retail stores.
Collectively, the MacBook brand is the 'world's top-selling line of premium laptops.' There have been four separate designs of the MacBook. The original model used a combination of and casing which was modeled after the iBook G4. The second type was introduced in October 2008 alongside the 15-inch MacBook Pro; the MacBook shared the more expensive laptop's unibody casing, but omitted FireWire.
A third design, introduced in late 2009, had a polycarbonate unibody casing. On July 20, 2011, the MacBook was discontinued for consumer purchase as it had been effectively superseded by the MacBook Air which had a lower entry price. Apple continued to sell the MacBook to educational institutions until February 2012. A new, redesigned was launched on March 9, 2015. Available in silver, gold or space grey, it is thinner than the MacBook Air and removes the traditional charging port (along with all other ports, except the ) in favor of the multi-purpose port. It also features a Retina display.
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On April 19, 2016, Apple updated the 12-inch Retina MacBook with new sixth-generation processors, longer battery life and a rose gold option; on June 5, 2017, the MacBook also received seventh-generation Intel Core processors and the second-generation butterfly keyboard that debuted on the MacBook Pro. First-generation white polycarbonate MacBook, 2006 The original MacBook, available in black or white colors, was released on June 28, 2006, and used the processor and, with Intel's integrated graphics on a 667 MHz. Later revisions of the MacBook moved to the processor and the chipset, with Intel's integrated graphics on an 800 MHz system bus. Sales of the black polycarbonate MacBook ceased in October 2008, after the introduction of the aluminum MacBook.
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While thinner than its predecessor – the iBook G4 – the MacBook is wider than the 12-inch model due to its widescreen display. In addition, the MacBook was one of the first (the first being the MacBook Pro) to adopt Apple's power connector and it replaced the iBook's display port with a display port. The iBook's discrete graphics chip was initially replaced by an integrated solution, though the latest revisions of the MacBook were upgraded with the more powerful 9400M and later the 320M. While the MacBook Pro largely followed the industrial design standard set by the, the MacBook was Apple's first notebook to use features now standard in its notebooks – the glossy display, the sunken keyboard design and the non-mechanical magnetic latch. With the late 2007 revision, the keyboard received several changes to closely mirror the one which shipped with the, by adding the same keyboard short-cut to control multimedia, and removing the embedded and the Apple logo from the. A more expensive black model was offered until the introduction of the unibody aluminum MacBook.