{"id":1244,"date":"2008-10-15T00:06:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/lusting-after-the-new-aluminium-macbook.htm"},"modified":"2008-10-15T23:45:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T23:45:45","slug":"lusting-after-the-new-aluminium-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/lusting-after-the-new-aluminium-macbook.htm","title":{"rendered":"Lusting after the new aluminium MacBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like my Apple MacBook.  It&#8217;s expensive (compared with other similarly specified PCs) but I really enjoy using it &#8211; whether I&#8217;m running Mac OS X or Windows.  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