Macbook Pro, 13" base model enough?

[SimonMW]

Specific use would be - video editing (nothing major, mostly amatuer videos for youtube and the like)

I've edited whole half hour HD programmes on mine. The screen can get a little cramped at times with FCP, and it doesn't like rendering lots of video tracks, but for most basic stuff it is just fine.

One of the best purchases I made.

 

[kny3twalker]

I looked into this before I bought my MBP. I looked at several Unibody white MacBooks as well as 13"MBPs in stores (late 2009). All the MBs and MBPs I looked at used the same 9C9E panel.

I would agree that the old non-unibody white MBs had inferior panels, as did the original 13" unibody metal MBs (later renamed MBP).

But from what I have seen at least some of the new white unibody MBs have exactly the same panel as the current 13" MBPs. Therefore the performance should be the same. Visually the MB panel looked extremely good (black levels, colours).

Well my mid 2009 MacBook Pro 13" does not use that screen. Mine has a 9CC2 if I remember correctly, and from reading about the LCD panels offered in the MBP, it appears the 9C9E is the worse panel to receive from the panel lottery. Furthermore I have read more than once about the backlight settings were not the same between the MB and MBP, where the backlight at half brightness on the MBP was equivalent to the MB at maximum brightness, and therefore reduces the battery life of the MB.