MacBook or MacBook Pro? Which is the better buy?
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Trying to decide between an Apple MacBook or an Apple MacBook Pro? Ars Technica weighed the options in each model and have some very good recommendations.
Conclusion: both the MacBook and the MacBook Pro are very nice laptops. The MB is slightly more luggable and the MBP a bit faster; the MBP has a dedicated graphics processor but at the cost of lower battery life. The Expresscard slot, FireWire 800 and the ability to take 3 GB RAM on the MBP are nice, but actually using those is costly. I’d say that the MB is probably a slightly better choice for people who also have a non-portable Mac, but if you’re like me and you just use a laptop, the extra screen real estate and the better expansion options on the MBP are probably worth the extra money.
It is still a tough decision. The value of the $1299 MacBook and what it includes makes it quite a bargain, but I think I’d miss the larger screen during prolonged use. If you mostly use a laptop to quickly edit a document, surf a few sites, read some RSS feeds, and then check your email then the MacBook is a great choice. If you want to do more and you can afford the difference the MacBook Pro is best for you.
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13lackmagic
October 3rd, 2007
at 5:30am
i got a black macbook, with 2 G ram, and it runs beautifully, takes only a few seconds to start up and shut down. top of the line laptop to say the least. i also partitioned 32 G for win xp, just for games n such. the only problem is games, so far, rome: total war to my suprise has worked fine, and warcraft 3 tft runs no problem at all either. however, halo worked alright in multiplayer in lowest settings, but the single player missions were shit. cod2 seems to work well so far, but the graphics arn’t that great…..both cod2 and halo were mac versions and demos btw, i dl’ed cod2 for windows, but couldnt get it to run because directx kept having a problem……anyway, i was really looking forward to playing medieval II: total war, which runs on a macbook, but is unplayable, as the movements are far too choppy to handle, trust me. so basically, i wish i had spent the extra 400 or so and gotten a macbook pro, or actually just a desktop mac, because i never take my laptop out of my dorm room….