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Most anything here should be fine:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2010150380+1035907918&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=380
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2010150380+1035907918&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=380
Get a WD Passport external drive, pull out the drive and slap it in your Macbook and put the Macbook drive in your Passport. Now you've got a larger Macbook drive PLUS an external drive. Where I am (canada) you can get a 120gb Passport for $109 at Costco, I understand its even less at the US Costco.
Is the drive in the WD Passport a SATA drive? Most portable external drives use IDE drives, which would not be compatible with the MacBook. If the OP wants to use his old drive in an external enclosure, I know macsales.com sells some good 2.5" SATA cases for that exact purpose.
Mine was an SATA drive. They're not all. You buy it, run WD Diagnostic on it to get the part number, check it on their site and if its SATA, do the above.
Thanks for the heads up. I was looking at buying a replacement SATA for my macbook and saw your post. I had a WD120 Passport that i've been using for the last 3 months and thought it was IDE. I popped it open and its SATA so that saves me a ton of money. Now i may even buy an AppleTV with the money i just saved... (but probably not. Slingcatcher looks like the way to go)