Do you recommend the white, polycarbonate MacBook?

The 13” aluminum is now a MacBook Pro. The MacBook is only available in the white polycarbonate.

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I’d wait a bit. The rumours are Apple are planning a major revamp of the MacBook soon more feature and lower price.

Mmm, guess that can be true also. :S But I need a notebook now, and I’m not going to buy another notebook to buy a MacBook later, lol.

The 13” MacBook Pro is $200 more. For that, you get another 0.13 GHz of speed, memory expandability up to 8GB (as opposed to 4), a FireWire 800 port instead of a FireWire 400 port, a SD card slot, a DisplayPort port instead of a Mini-DVI port, an illuminated keyboard, and a multi-touch trackpad.

This site tracks how long it’s been since Apple updated or speed-bumped its computers, and makes recommendations based on the average product cycle length. There are always rumors that everything is being updated, but in general, if it’s something that could be attractive to back-to-school buyers, Apple will update it by mid-summer at the latest.

Actually, what’s the deal with FireWire 800? Strange, lol. I don’t care a lot about speed, actually – a MacBook already sounds fast. I’m planning to buy the “standard” model on everything, and I never use a notebook on dark places (and I know where all the keys are on a QWERTY keyboard, lol), and some people have been talking bad about the MacBook Pro’s keyboard.

And the money factor is important too – $200 is money!

@_fonzo If you are backing your Mac up to an external HD firewire 800 will take a long and boring job and cut the time it takes in half. If you are transfering video from a camcorder it’s also very useful..

@_fonzo: The MBP is more future-proof. Slightly faster, more memory expandability, and interfaces that are looking forward (FW800, DisplayPort) rather than backwards (FW400, Mini-DVI).

The MacBook is a solid computer regardless. If you need any of the additional features, the $200 is probably well worth it; if you don’t, then saving $200 is good.