Well, I no longer have a Macbook. At least temporarily. Thursday morning I discovered that my battery would not hold charge, actually the machine failed to detect the presence of a battery at all. I followed all the procedures outlined by the Apple support website, but still no luck. So yesterday I dropped the machine in to the nearest Apple centre.

Naturally, none of the techs work weekends so nobody will even look at the machine until tomorrow. I’m also having the top case changed to get rid of the grubby yellow marks, that will probably take about a week. I haven’t read much recently about the discoloration issue, but to my knowledge it has been resolved – so I have a brand new battery and shiny white top case to look forward to when I get the unit back.

One of my friends just bought his second Macbook this weekend, after having sold his original Black model. I couldn’t see any major difference between the Core 2 2.0GHz and my 1.83GHz Core 1. I expect once Leopard arrives and with it, applications that can use EM64T – we will start to see a bit of a performance difference.

At the Apple store, I had a bit of time to play with the Macbook Pro that was on demo, it’s really hard to decide whether to keep my Macbook or not. If I sell it, I can put the money back towards saving up for a new MBP. Although it would mean going without a notebook for at least a few months. I’m not sure which I’d miss more, having a notebook, or just having something that doesn’t use Windows.