I think they did it to differentiate between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro. There is not much difference between the two, except for screen size and the GPU. Though it should be powerful enough to handle most BlitzMax 2D games. :-)
I looked at the Cinebench results for the MacBook (see http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macbook.ars/6 ). It scores fine on rendering speeds (CPU only), but very badly on OpenGL hardware. In fact, it's only slightly better than my last generation iBook which has an ATI 9550 and got an OpenGL score of 919 (much better than the iBook in the review). The MacBook score 1096, which is kind of sad.
That said, it's a fine machine for none gamers or even casual gamers, who don't want to play any half recent 3D games.
Ragnar
I looked at the Cinebench results for the MacBook (see http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macbook.ars/6 ). It scores fine on rendering speeds (CPU only), but very badly on OpenGL hardware. In fact, it's only slightly better than my last generation iBook which has an ATI 9550 and got an OpenGL score of 919 (much better than the iBook in the review). The MacBook score 1096, which is kind of sad.
That said, it's a fine machine for none gamers or even casual gamers, who don't want to play any half recent 3D games.
Ragnar