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To: Frank Walker who wrote (70816)	11/7/2007 7:20:34 AM
From: NAG1	Respond to of 213182

Mouse, What you linked to was what most are considering the upgrade of the macbooks. On a separate note, it would seem like the iPhone's use of safari may be helping push developers to consider the safari browser. money.cnn.com This may have been part of Apple's overall strategy. Neal

To: Frank Walker who wrote (70816)	11/8/2007 1:06:27 AM
From: Frank Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Yep it looks like the new boxes of MacBooks are the quietly updated versions (no formal announcement) with Santa Rosa chipset, 800 Mhz bus, doubled ram capacity (4 GB) and better graphics chip. 2 friends were anxious to buy so we went into a store and a sales rep showed us an internal memo summarizing the differences, new specs are as shown at apple.com. The new versions won't be actually advertised or sold by them for about 2 weeks but maybe earlier at other stores (it appears the new versions have been sold at some stores already). My friends decided to wait, since the old in-stock models are not discounted much (about $150). Here is the test link that was on the macrumors.com page, various benchmark speeds are mostly improved by 5 to 10 percent, but one item called "stream performance" is 25% better. primatelabs.ca