I just realized that the last five (now six) stories are about Apple or somehow Apple related! Even so, I can’t pass this last one up.

Apple announced last week that their widely popular line of consumer notebooks would now ship with Core 2 Duo processors under the hood! I have to admit, I thought that this might happen-that Apple would go ahead and announce the new laptops before the holidays.A number of people were waiting for Apple to follow up their move with the MacBook Pro a few weeks ago by also upgrading the MacBooks, and I knew several people who were waiting specifically for Core 2 Duo processor upgrades before making their purchases. Suffice to say they’ve already got their new notebooks on order, and Apple’s shipping them in time for the holidays.

The new MacBooks aren’t taking a price increase, but they’re definitely offering a performance boost, with cheaper RAM upgrades, larger hard drives in all models, and dual-layer superdrives in the two higher-end models, not to mention processors starting at 1.83GHz and up to 2.0GHz in the mid-level white model and the high-end black model. If you’ve been holding off from buying a Macbook until there’s been a processor or hardware revision, now’s the time, and just in time for the holidays.

[ PC World :: Apple Ships Core 2 Duo MacBooks