People often ask me which is better — the MacBook or the MacBook Pro? As I have previously posted, I opted for the MacBook, and I have been very satisfied with my choice. Of course, I do miss the backlit keyboard that comes with the MacBook Pro (and my old PowerBook), but I remind myself that that one minor feature didn’t justify the price difference — at least not to me.
Tim Bray, who works at Sun Microsystems, recently published an article in which he discusses his decision to go with the MacBook instead of its bigger silver brother. Among the reasons he loves his black MacBook are its longer battery life, great WiFi reception, smaller size, durability, and cool look. He goes so far as to state that "at this point anyone who buys a silver Mac is making a big mistake." If you’re currently debating which Mac laptop to purchase, you may want to check out his article.
Source: "Unprofessional in Black" by Tim Bray, published at his Ongoing blog.
I bought the original MacBook Pro only to have it ruined going through security at an airport (horrifying experience.)
I replaced it with a MacBook last summer. I’ll never go back–for all the reasons you’ve listed and more.
The graphics capability of the latest MacBook has just been bumped up with the Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor with 144MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory.
To what extent does this narrow the gap with the entry level MacBook Pro which comes with 128MB of dedicated VRAM?