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Aluminum Unibody MacBook Q&A - Published November 4, 2008
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Who designed the "Unibody" MacBook?
Apple's industrial design for the last several years has been performed entirely in-house by Apple's Industrial Design Group, led by Jonathan Ive.
How is the "Unibody" MacBook created from one piece of aluminum?
When it was introduced, Apple explained that the product:
Starts its life as a solid piece of aluminum. Each aluminum core is precisely machined into the basic unibody design. Another pass and the unibody takes shape. Another, and the integrated keyboard emerges. It takes multiple CNC milling operations to create the complete MacBook unibody.
Photo Credit: Apple, Inc. (Left - Starting Block, Right - Machined Piece)
Ultimately, this new production method results in an extremely sleek, sturdy, and thin notebook.
Where can I buy a "Unibody" MacBook?
There are any number of places to purchase a used Mac, but these days, the Unibody MacBook is so old that it really only is available via online auction sites.
To purchase upgrades, please visit site sponsor Other World Computing, which sells memory, hard drives, and more for the MacBook models as well as every other Mac.
What were the default configurations? What custom configurations were available?
For the default configurations of each model, please refer to the specs page for the MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2.0 13" (Unibody) and MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2.4 13" (Unibody), respectively.
In addition to the stock configurations, you also could choose to customize the amount of RAM, the hard drive, and whether or not to add a display adapter (US$29 each for Mini DisplayPort to DVI or VGA and US$99 for Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI), an external Apple USB Modem for US$49 (an internal modem was not offered), a MagSafe Airline Adapter for US$49, or an Apple Remote for US$19.
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