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As i’m sure everyone know, the new MacBook was released yesterday in two flavors. The MacBook Pro also got some upgrades to it as well, you can read all about them here.

I was reading through the comparison chart and a few things caught my eye. First of all, the only different between the high end white MacBook and the black MacBook, asid from the $200 in the price tag, is 20 gigs of space on the HD and a black paint. I’m sure i’m not the only one who thinks that is not worth $200.

The next thing I did was compare the MacBook to the MacBook Pro 15″ 2.16ghz Core Duo model. Which is the one I have wanted since they came out. I noticed the only major differences between these two are a slightly bigger screen, 1280×800(MacBook) compared to 1440×900(MacBook Pro). The only other major difference is the graphics card, an Intel Grpahics Accelerator 950 with shared video memory on the MacBook and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB Dedicated video memory.

Now that we know the two major differences between these two models(other than the .16ghz processing speed), lets compare the prices. We will start with the higher end MacBook Pro which comes in at $2,399(I selected the 1GB 2×512 option for comparison purposes which subtracted $100, the MacBook didn’t have a 1gig/1dimm option) The white MacBook weighs in at $1,549 with the same configuration excluding the afore mentioned differences. The black MacBook is $1,699 with the same configuration.

So on the MacBook Pro to white Macbook we have an $850 difference, for .16ghz processor speed, a slightly bigger screen, and a ncier video card. We still have a $700 difference between the black MacBook and the MacBook Pro. I don’t claim to know how much more those fancy schmancy aluminium cases(sorry, still bitter I could only afford an iBook =P) are than their polycorbonate counterpart, but I don’t think it justifies the price difference. Final verdict? I willwould still pay the extra $850 for the MacBook Pro because i value desktop real estate and video horsepower.