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Interesting … I was considering whether to treat myself to another laptop, and the MacBook Pro was looking very tempting, but also just a little on the expensive side. Today’s announcements about the MacBooks got me all excited again and so I started putting together some prospective purchase scenarios. I have to say, the new black MacBook looks very sexy … but at what price?

I discounted the ‘beginner’ MacBook (which won’t burn DVDs, no good for me) immediately and tried a couple of different configs with the other MacBooks on offer – both have 2Ghz processors, but there is a difference in the hard drive size. The white MacBook has the smaller drive at 60GB, while the shiny, oh-so-sexy black one sports a 80GB drive. And that, it seems, is all the difference (aside from the colour). But here’s the weird thing – when I uprated the memory on both machines and maxed the hard drive size on the white MacBook to 120GB, while bumping the black one up to 100GB, the white MacBook still came in cheaper. Compare (results from UK store taken on 16 May):

The higher spec machine is now the white one – now with a whole 20GB bigger hard drive – and is still £10 cheaper than the black MacBook!

So, what would you do – pay for the privilege of getting a black MacBook, or go for a higher spec … and the likelihood that you’ll maybe mistake your new MacBook for your old iBook G4 on more than one occasion :-p