Am I old or is this not even close to the most controversial Apple laptop? I feel like the white plastic Intel MacBooks and the original TiBooks were both more controversial.
I wasn't there for the plastic Intel MacBooks, but the biggest complaint I remember hearing about was that the black one collected fingerprints like crazy and, later on, some overheating issues. They were also a pain to repair, though not as bad as the iBooks before them.
At least RAM and hard drive were very easy to replace, which I appreciated. I don't think I ever needed to actually open my MacBook back then. But I do remember repairing white iBooks, which was a pain indeed.
Despite all that, I loved these machines, but many people found them to be just a bit too Apple.