If you plan to get a laptop as a Christmas gift for your loved ones (of itself) to the Apple MacBook Pro MB990LL / A would be a good choice. It is relatively affordable (for an Apple laptop), very portable and comes with many new and improved features.

The new generation of MacBook Pro, which was launched not long ago, comes with a lot of upgrades and is the best, a general price reduction. The 13.3-inch laptop is a 2.26 GHz Core 2 Duo processor,has a 160 GB hard drive and 2GB of DDR3 RAM. Then we have the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics card and the brand new Snow Leopard OS.

Acer Aspire AS1410-8414 11.6-Inch Sapphire Blue Laptop - 6 Hour Battery Life Reviewed by R. Sung (Milpitas, CA)
Satisfied Rating (8/10)

I bought this unit because I need something in addition to my normal notebook especially for travel. The screen is bright and clear and the unit is relatively portable and aesthetics. Performance when running simple document editing and viewing of Web pages is more than adequate and the system felt more responsive than the systems based on Atom I tried. The only downside is the keyboard I found a bit 'cramped and the keys that make sense to mush.

Acer Aspire 3680 with OS X Leopard, everything working except the microphone and battery status, updates also work perfectly. This laptop is fully functional and I use it every day. I had installed prior to Windows Vista and I must say that OS X is running 100 times better than any vista, and I could not be happier with the results of install. The video shows a race at the boot-up, HP Pavilion dv6000 Entertainment PC model with AMD Turion 64x 2 VS Acer Aspire 3680 with Intel Celeron M520 1.6 GHz …

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Acer Aspire AS1410-8804 11.6-Inch Black Laptop - 6 Hour Battery Life Reviewed by Adric R. Riedel (Atlanta)
Satisfied Rating (8/10)

First, I am sure that this would be a great laptop that I was really looking for. It 'very quiet, very light and very strong (hold it with one hand in a corner!) And of course, very small. All specifications are slightly better quality netbook for a little over a price of netbooks. I had a lot more money on a superior system to obtain absolute. The keyboard is nice, the screen is bright, wireless connections are strong, the battery life is probably not six hours, but very long (there are versions of non-American Series Acer timeline 8 hours with battery)

An Act 08 Report on netbooks … Netbook Eee PC apsire Acer laptop sat1 Act 08

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