iSight non HD camera)Ĥ) Larger hard drive (sorry, forget by how much. The first four items are new as of 2011 the others existed in 2010 and still exist now.Ģ) FaceTime HD camera (vs. I'm not counting the case as I'll mark that up to personal preference. It seems very very favorable to me, for $200 (the price difference with the base computer, not options). Here is what you will get on a Macbook Pro now that is different than the Macbook. I think that now the Macbook should be more like $799.īut okay, back to the comparison.

Now, with the MBP having added a better processor, a better camera, and Thunderbolt, I can't imagine buying a Macbook considering the price difference (yet I love the plastic and don't like metal).

Even when they had identical processors (late 2010) I just couldn't justify the Macbook to myself given the differences in features for $200. Finally I decided to change over to the Macbook Pro. I went back and forth about what to do, and compared the Macbook and the MBP over and over (this was in November 2010). I liked it, BUT they had taken away several features that I liked from my older Macbook, namely: After it had numerous logic board and other failures, Apple replaced it and gave me a unibody plastic Macbook. My last computer was a non-unibody plastic Macbook. I've always owned and preferred plastic Mac notebooks. Here is my opinion, with a bit of background so you know where I am coming from: I don't understand the 'build quality' comment either.

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