Fellow BlackBook owner here. Although I find I'm not using it as much with the iPad and MacBook Air around, it's still a solid machine. I have the Santa Rosa model, which I bought new in December 2007.
A hidden perk of the black MacBook is the resistance to the nasty staining common to white MacBooks and iBooks. I've seen some pretty ugly ones in laptop carts around the schools.
It's still a solid machine today. I upgraded it to Lion almost immediately and find it runs it just as well as it did Leopard and Snow Leopard. The black color also turns a lot of heads, since they aren't really that common.
Out of curiosity, how long of a battery life is everyone getting with their BlackBooks? I'm getting about 3 hours max, which seems to have fallen off a lot from where it had been when new despite the battery reading in at 91% of capacity. (EDIT: This is on the original battery, now four years old).
A hidden perk of the black MacBook is the resistance to the nasty staining common to white MacBooks and iBooks. I've seen some pretty ugly ones in laptop carts around the schools.
It's still a solid machine today. I upgraded it to Lion almost immediately and find it runs it just as well as it did Leopard and Snow Leopard. The black color also turns a lot of heads, since they aren't really that common.
Out of curiosity, how long of a battery life is everyone getting with their BlackBooks? I'm getting about 3 hours max, which seems to have fallen off a lot from where it had been when new despite the battery reading in at 91% of capacity. (EDIT: This is on the original battery, now four years old).