Macbook Late 2009, is it worth it buy it or is it better a MBP?

[zorahk]

The screens on the macbook plastic series have always been garbage.
My macbook pro (unibody 15") was stolen from my house about a week ago, but they left my mother's macbook here. I'm typing on it right now, and these screens are just amazingly bad. Not to mention the white plastic is filthy, the keyboard is difficult to type on, and it's not backlit.

Personally, the MBP wins every time.

 

[ipodftw]

I dont understand what your pointing out?

 

[SXR]

I've been checking the market for a while, and was almost sure of buying a Macbook Pro, but was quite troubled with the price. However this unibody WhiteBook gave me second thoughts of buying it. It has everything I need! (I don't need IR as I have an Iphone that can work as a remote, or either FW or SD input)
However those pictures in Engadget, well I'm not the most carefull person when it comes to laptops, but I sure don't use them like a chimp.

So I want to know if it those dents and scratches are major and common problem in all macbooks or if it was them who didn't take care of it as they should? And if it is a good option to a user that only uses it for normal activities or some photo editing (Photoshop) or gaming (games like Spore, Guild Wars, WoW).

And I need to clear my mind quickly, as a friend of mine is coming from USA next week and I want him to buy it, there as they are 270€ cheaper than in Portugal. (almost 350$)

Hope you can help me!

I was in the same position some time ago. I was sure to get a MacBook Pro, then I focused on the Whitebook since there were very little differences(just a huge price difference), and now I'm ending up buying an iMac

If you really want a laptop, and you plan to carry it around a lot - i would go for the MacBook Pro, since thats an alluminum unibody and the Whitebook is a polycarbonate unibody.

Alluminum is stronger.

Oh and the backlit keyboard is awesome aswell