Which Mac is better

[jflair1980]

Good evening everyone, this will be my first Mac and we are excited. I am looking for as much detail as possible. First of all, what is the biggest difference performance wise between the Macbook and Macbook Pro?

Basically what would be the difference between these two labtops

Macbook Pro

MacBook 15 Inch Aluminum
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 1066MHz DDr3 SDRAM 2X2gb
320GB Serial ATA @ 7200
Super Drive 8X
Backlit Keyboard

Or Macbook

MacBook, 13-inch, Aluminum
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB
320GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
Super Drive 8X
Backlit Keyboard

besides the size of the screen the only difference I see is 320GB Serial ATA @ 7200 instead of 320GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm .

Does the 320GB Serial ATA @ 7200 instead make a big difference? The Macbook Pro is about $400 more. Is this worth the 400 dollars? I am big into music I want to store a lot of MP3's my wife wants to do some editing and we were wondering if these are decent gaming labtops? Any info would help.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

If you really can't see any difference then you don't need the Macbook Pro.


*cough* GPU */cough*

 

[Sun Baked]

If you really can't see any difference then you don't need the Macbook Pro.


*cough* GPU */cough*

And FW800 ...

Though with the new plastic Nvidia-based MacBook, this difference was cured with FW400 and added less expensive DDR2 memory.

 

[yegon]

If you really can't see any difference then you don't need the Macbook Pro.

*cough* GPU */cough*

This.

What specs don't highlight, though, is the difference in quality of the two displays. Visit here, half way down, to see what I mean;

http://gizmodo.com/5063492/macbook-and-macbook-pro-dual-review

 

[SFStateStudent]

+1 ^^^ definitely the screen matters; whether it's the screen size or the screen quality I would go with the MBP every time...

 

[daneoni]

The difference is the Drive/GPU/Screen and FW/Express card Ports

 

[jargonblimp]

money is the difference.

 

[Niiro13]

Firewire 800, screen size, and the fact that the Macbook Pro has both the 9400M and the 9600M GT...You can get max graphics on Valve games and pretty good graphics on games like Assassin's Creed.

Of course 3D modeling (not the rendering part) is a lot smoother if you have millions of polygons.

But if you don't play intensive games as much (9400 can still get you almost max graphics on Valve and a little lower end graphics on Assassin's creed) or 3D Model and whatnot, then you should get the Macbook and maybe the LED display (that covers screen size )

Note that there are firewire expresscards out, so that's covered.