retail stores for the preceding five months. It was the best-selling Macintosh in history, and aĬcording to the sales-research organization NPD Group in October 2008, the mid-range model of the MacBook was the single best-selling laptop of any brand in U.S. Positioned as the low end of the MacBook family, the Apple MacBook was aimed at the consumer and education markets. First introduced in May 2006, it replaced the iBook and 12-inch PowerBook series of notebooks as a part of the Apple–Intel transition. The MacBook was a brand of Macintosh notebook computers built by Apple. The original white polycarbonate MacBook. This article is about the early series of MacBooks from 2006 to 2011, before the MacBook (Retina).
