Mac Book a1278

As an Apple family home-level product, MacBook has always been using fashionable and beautiful engineering plastic casings, and has always followed the integrated graphics card design. In addition to upgrading the conventional hardware configuration, the latest MacBook a1278 adopts the full aluminum alloy one-time molding technology design for the first time, and adds support for NVIDIA chips ...... With its superb craftsmanship and cutting-edge design philosophy, MacBook once again surprised Apple fans.
Exquisite appearance
At first glance, you will immediately feel the uniqueness of this brand new MacBook. The aluminum body and silver-white frosted metal aluminum shell not only perfectly reflect the concise main style, at the same time, it also makes the entire body more delicate, light, and solid and durable. It should be particularly noted that the a1278 shell is formed by the whole cutting of an aluminum brick using a technology called "brick" (brick and sturdy), and the whole aluminum shell is integrated, even the battery cover and body button lock are made of aluminum alloy materials. In addition to a few necessary parts, basically achieved no seams, no screws, and no ordinary laptop that kind of engineering plastic sense, fully reflects the Apple's good technology and perfect design concept, this greatly increased the market competitiveness of this household-level m0000k.
In terms of shape, although a1278 is not as slim as the MacBook Air design, its thickness of the entire machine is still greatly reduced compared with the previous generation model, the host border section is only 10mm, the screen thickness is only 6.5mm, and because the screen adopts the cutting edge transition design, it looks more light and thin, plus the weight of the whole machine is only 2.033 kg (including standard battery), it is very convenient to carry.
One of the biggest highlights of a1278 is that of the 13.3 inch super dazzling infinity mirror screen. The resolution is 1280x800 pixels, and the visible area is improved by about 30% compared with similar products. In addition, the reflective suppression is greatly improved, even in the case of strong light, you can also clearly see the screen display, and the overall visual effect is quite good.
Smooth Operation Experience





A1278 is not only simple in appearance, but also smooth in use. The random pre-installed Mac OS x 10.5 OS is quite easy to use, whether it is communication chat, music, watching movies or surfing the Internet, mac OS X 10.5 provides a comfortable operating environment and a platform that is relatively secure and free from Trojan viruses, and is easy to use. Of course, if you really need a Windows operating system, you can also use the Boot Camp provided in Mac OS X 10.5, it can help you smoothly install Windows operating system (supports Windows Vista) on your macbook without any loss in terms of functionality.
In terms of control performance, Apple's keyboard has always been quite different from ordinary PC keyboards. Therefore, for users who are used to Windows operating systems, it takes some time to adapt to the changes of function keys (for example, the option key on the Apple keyboard is the ctrl key in Windows ). However, it is undeniable that the button feel is quite good. The personalized square button adopts the ultra-short key design with moderate elasticity, which is much better than the soft feel of similar products in the past, in addition, the distance between the buttons is also adequate, and it will not feel very crowded when you press the keyboard.
　　
It is particularly worth mentioning that the huge touchpad of the MacBook a1278 seems to have canceled the key settings at first glance, but in fact, if you tap anywhere on the touchpad, it is equivalent to clicking the mouse button. Because there is no separate button, the touchpad is equal to 39% more space for your finger activity. In addition, this touchpad also uses multi-touch technology, similar to the multi-touch, it allows you to use multiple fingers at the same time to perform a variety of function operations (such as right-click attribute enabling, Image zoom-in, webpage zoom-out, scrolling, and rotating ). In practice, you can use the dual-finger to roll up or down the page. The dual-finger can zoom in or out the page. The third is to scan your photo library and rotate the image with your fingertips. With the new four-finger gesture, you can go to the expose mode by swiping up and down, and switch between opened applications by swiping left and right. In operations such as image browsing and web page browsing, the advantages of multi-touch are obvious, fast and practical, it provides more cool desktop management and window switching than Windows Vista. In other words, all the features are at your fingertips. This is really great.
Excellent Performance
In addition to the concise and stylish appearance and smooth operations, the performance improvement of the a1278 cannot be ignored. The NVIDIA mcp97 chipset is used together with the NVIDIA 9400m video card integrated with beiqiao, in addition, ddr3 memory not only greatly reduces the cost, but also ensures that the performance of the entire machine is greatly improved without increasing the design difficulty, so that a1278 is not only in the conventional Office field, both gaqing and gaming have excellent performance.
Apple said at the press conference that the geforce M graphics performance in the MacBook is five times that of Intel integrated graphics cards. Instead of setting independent physical memory, the graphics processor directly shares the main memory capacity, the minimum shared capacity is 256 Mbyte. It supports many new features developed by NVIDIA, including Shader Model 4, hardware HD video decoding, Cuda Unified Computing Device architecture, and physx physical acceleration. In actual use, this video card is also outstanding, not inferior to many models that currently use independent video cards. When using a 12% p high-definition clip for testing, the average CPU usage is only about, and the performance is quite good.




Performance has been improved, so what is the heat dissipation performance that users are most concerned about? After all, the fever problem has been plagued by MacBook since its launch. The actual test shows that the a1278 has improved the heat dissipation, and the heat dissipation is better thanks to the excellent heat conduction efficiency of the aluminum alloy shell. However, the overall heat dissipation performance is still limited. After all, the LCD screen axis is blocked on the wind road, and the heat dissipation efficiency of the subsequent heat dissipation system is not very high. During the long-term full-speed operation, the temperature at the left side of the keyboard, the bottom of the fuselage, and the air outlet increases rapidly, especially the heat at the bottom is much larger, so it is still not suitable for long-term use on the knee. However, the noise of the a1278 is very subtle, and the fan can hardly hear the sound.

Mi tips
The Mini displayport interface is a distinctive design. You can use this small interface to connect various display devices for HD playback. Compared with HDMI, displayport has the advantages of high bandwidth, integrating peripheral devices to the maximum extent, enabling internal and external interfaces, simplifying product design, high scalability, and more reliable content protection technology. However, the display devices of this interface are not very rich yet. If you need to connect to DVI and other display device interfaces, You need to select an appropriate conversion adapter.



Processor
Intel Core 2 dual-core p8600 processor 2.4 GHz
Memory (Standard/maximum)
2 GB ddrii/up to 4 GB
Motherboard chipset
NVIDIA mcp79u
Screen
13.3 inch LED Backlight (1280x800 pixels)
Graphics card
NVIDIA geforce 9400 m
Hard Disk
250 Gbyte
Optical Drive
Suction SuperDrive (DVD super multi)
Port
USB 2.0, RJ45, mini-display port, magsafe power supply, audio input/output
Camera
Buil-In isight
Battery Type
4200 MAH
Dimensions
24.1mm × 325mm × 227mm
Weight
2.033 kg (with battery)/2.29 kg (Travel weight)