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MacBooks: the black ones cost more.. and their disk works slower

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-- Now here's a remarkable thing that the Macworld team has turned up in its lab tests. The black Macbooks, when compared to the top-end white versions (the latter, you'll recall, are £90 cheaper but have no other noticeable configuration differences), are actually slower at a number of tasks than the mid-config white ones. (That is, if you leave the disk on the white model at 60GB, rather than upgrading to 80GB.) --

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{"commentId":165230,"authorDomain":"redwolf"}

Looks like either keeping the 60GB drive or upgrading to the faster 100GB drive might be the way to go.

It should be noted that the finish on the black Macbooks is appalling. I had a wander up to the local Apple store and was surprised to see chipping and flaking on the demo model. I shudder to think what it would look like after a week in my company.

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Reply#1 - Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:58 PM EDT
{"commentId":165412,"authorDomain":"sieb"}

This is nothing new. Larger capacity drives will always be slower than smaller capacity drives of the same speed due to construction constraits (one platter to two platters, platter density, etc..).

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Reply#2 - Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:39 AM EDT
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