I replaced my 12" Powerbook with a MacBook for the size but then needed the Power of a MacBook Pro so purchased one as well. I like the portability of the MacBook (I have removed the optical drive and hard drive and it now boots from compact flash, as a result it is light and has a long battery) but it is a tad slower than the MacBook Pro. I also like the larger screen, backlit keyboard and Firewire 800. The MacBook is a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo with 2 GB RAM and the MacBook Pro is 2.4 GHz and it originally had 2 GB of RAM but has since been upgraded to 4. The graphics card in the MacBook Pro, especially under Leopard, takes a lot of load off the main process and RAM and therefore makes a big difference.

 What I really want is a 12" PowerBook replacement as neither machine is perfect but for the time being the MBP see the most use with the MB is a bit of toy.

Nicholas 

Puncher:

Would I expect anything else😁

Are the Macbook and the Macbook Pro you're comparing both current, as similar spec as you can get, models??

BTW - young fellow me lad, you seem to have stopped PM'ing me about your music - I still play your last EP in my car (albeit a lowly Ford Focus without B&O sound system)

I've got some stuff done for the new album. I could always give you a sneak preview I suppose, but there are only 2 songs completely 'finished', one song 'almost there' and another 'finished' but I'm not sure if I'm gonna include it.

Strangely enough, it's already got some album art! A friend did a fantastic bit of work in Photoshop which I've fallen in love with...

Woops!........I've just PM'd you about this very subject😁

The rumor has Apple will sell a portable computer with only flash memory soon.

It will probably have a not so large screen. And it supposedly will be twice as thin as the regular apple portable computers. 

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/01/macworld-rumors-du-jour-external-optical-drives-multi-touch-tr/

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/16/rumor-rehash-apple-macbook-ultraportable-coming-soon/

Rumours have been flying around for ages. There was nothing to replace the 12" PowerBook...