Good news: The cheapest most feature-laden (Firewire!) white MacBook is also faster than its $300-more aluminum brother. Oof!
On the other hand, after 18 months your white plastic case may look like mine:
Cracking, flaking, bulging...I'm very very hard on laptops. But I wouldn't tolerate this kind of failure in any laptop, much less one that I paid a premium for.
On the other hand, the hardware and software still make me very very happy. But speed be damned, I'm also happy I'll soon have an aluminum Macbook at work.
This also puts into sharp relief something I wondered ever since Apple released the aluminum Macbook (and Pro) cases, which is how they could economically CNC machine cases by the million. The short answer is: they can't. That's one reason why the plastic version is so much cheaper, despite superior performance. There's also a few other upgrades between those models (better screen, generally improved hardware like the trackpad), but there's also a show-stopping deletion from the new model: no Firewire port.
At this point, except for the case being a piece of crap, it's tricky to see the value in the base aluminum Macbook. But that case sure is nifty, eh?
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