Although you couldn’t say that Apple makes one of the cheap laptop computers, Apple notebook computers 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 and which give them such high laptop ratings.

Apple notebook computers have come a long way beginning with 1989, that is twenty years ago, when their first models were viewed almost as failures in terms of technology. 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 was pretty huge in size. Few other computers had a pre-installed operating system, the way these first Apple notebooks had.

Despite the drawbacks that it had, it still provided 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. The cost of the model at the time of its release ranged around $6,500, it included a processing unit of 16 MHz, 1 MB RAM, 256 KB ROM, and so on. The features, of course, are pretty outdated, most likely someone would have a model of this device only as a collection piece.

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 very thin aspect comes from the use of a single piece of carved metal that replaced the several pieces previously used for assembling. These Apple notebooks also offer a 15-inch display and a back LED lighting system for superior brightness in case you need it.

As far as graphics is concerned, the Apple team are proud to say that this new notebook is the best they can offer to game players and not only; users can rely on 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 many characteristics and this new model is one of the best choices available for mobile professionals and more.