$999 MacBook hardware updated to near-unibody specs

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here's hoping a black anodized aluminum unibody MacBook is just around the corner...

was thinking about "downgrading" from my 07 macbook pro to the new unibody macbook, looking for smaller size laptop, now am really interested in this white one. I like the aluminum body of the unibody, but damn I'm thinking this little guy looks like it would be a great deal. better graphics, memory, hd, cpu than mine...hmmm

Hmm, I suppose I am in the minority, but I am not a fan of the unibody... in looks, feel, or cost.

Less money ($939 on my govt. discount), a superior keyboard and trackpad, a firewire port (you know - for those of us with a significant investment in FW hard drives, and who use target mode regularly), and no scraping sounds of watch on aluminum to get through the day with when typing... to me this is a win-win situation.

I can see the unibody working out well for switchers/students/home users - for people who use the Mac as a basic machine. For someone like me, it's a huge step backwards.

Isn't the clock speed 2.1ghz, 100mhz faster than the standard unibody model?

So you take this one one and up it to 160GB and your spec is nearly identical to the $1299 aluminum model but for $1049. I think they're going to need to do an update to the aluminum base model soon.

People seem lost when it comes to the CPU specs.

The previous 2.1GHz Penryn was an older family of Penryn processor's, running at a system bus of 800MHz.

The current family Penryn that's at a clock of 2.0GHz is running on a system bus speed of 1066MHz.

The clock speed may be a tad slower, but with the bottleneck of the system bus opened to 1066MHz, it's actually running faster.

I still have yet to complete my year with the Late 200 24inch thing I bought in June of 08. So I'm sort of trying to justify if I really need this Aluminum Macbook.

I don't like the glossy screen I might be buying a refurbished 15inch Aluminum the 2007 or early 2008 models, seems like a couple of hundred more but still runs circles against this one. I don't buy new anymore cause this is what always happens, you get the shaft from Apple when the decide to update the specs on their hardware.

The UK store still has the old system... odd!

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook?mco=MTE3MjA