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 sh*t. 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….