Apple notebooks enjoy a very good reputation among portable computer users. The features that these devices offer are more and more up to regular and professional buyers’ tastes and interests. They are bought due to such characteristics as weight, screen size, processor, width and mobility which are but some of the many that Apple presents and customers look for.

Apple notebooks have come a long way beginning with 1989, that is twenty years ago, when the initial models were on the verge of complete failure. First of all, the original model of Apple notebooks ‘the Macintosh Portable ‘ was incredibly heavy. It weighed sixteen pounds approximately, had a 9.8″ matrix screen and it looked rather bulky. Few other computers had a pre-installed operating system, the way these first Apple notebooks had.

Despite the normal imperfection, the father of all Apple notebooks still brought something that today’s portable computers do not have: the battery could last up to ten hours without recharging. Yet, it needed as much power when in use as it did when in sleep mode, which again was criticized as a disadvantage. This model cost 6,500 dollars at that time, it had a processing unit of 16 MHz, 1 MB RAM, 256 KB ROM, and so on. Presently, the features are completely outdated, but it is interesting to realize how far computer manufacturing has come.

On the other hand, there is the latest model of Apple notebooks, the MacBook Pro released in October this year (2008). It utterly surprises with its lightweight and high portability level. The extremely thin aspect has been rendered by the team of engineers who have decided to create a new notebook relying on the unibody, one piece of carved aluminum instead of several smaller pieces that need to be assembled. These Apple notebooks also offer a 15-inch display which is back-lit by a LED impressing with the brightness that it renders to the user’s eye.

As far as graphics is concerned, the Apple team claim this is the best possible offer they can come up with for gamers; users can now enjoy the integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M processor for every day use or change to the other one, the NVIDIA 9600M GT, with a high speed mode and more precise in terms of graphics coping with the demands of modern game playing. All in all, the new Apple notebooks make quite a breakthrough in terms of technical characteristics and this new model is one of the best choices available for mobile professionals and more.