question about the new macbook

[jgest]

I recently sold my titanium g4 800 powerbook to make way for the macbook pro. Since dp is not ready for the mactells I held of on buying a macbook pro (since I wanted to wait a generation or 2) now comes these "macbook", the equivelent ot the I book......

The specs seem almost impressive with a 667 front side buss/ 2 gigs of ram, etc...

With my titanium 800 and only 3/4 gigs of ram and only a 133 buss speed, I had a pretty fuctional machine for my needs running Dp/reason/powercore firewire with virus........

Am I way off base to assume that a macbook not a macbook pro at only $1400 ($1000 cheaper than a macbook pro) loaded with ram of course would smoke my titanium 800 to the point of not missing the "mac book pro"........

At some point a few years ago I got out of the "spec" game and back into making music so I feel like I am pretty much a newbie all over with the "tech/spec"

any advice, comments, insults, or opinions?

thank you for reading.

[monkeysan]

Am I way off base to assume that a macbook not a macbook pro at only $1400 ($1000 cheaper than a macbook pro) loaded with ram of course would smoke my titanium 800 to the point of not missing the "mac book pro"........

You are way _on_ base.

You give up 0.16 MHz max CPU speed.
You give up the bto 7200 rpm hd option.
You give up a pci-e ATI card for an integrated GPU.
You give up FireWire800.
You give up ExpressCard, or whateve the new cardbus protocol is.
You give up screen real estate.

Nothing critical imo.

I think it's almost a no-brainer for what you describe.

Plus you can get the cool BlackMac...is it worth the 150-dollar premium? Used one yesterday at Apple SoHo, and I have to say it and the 20Gb extra space more than make up for the price diff.

[giles117]

Just bump the memory up as the video shares your RAM.

I'd do 2GB for sure. and then comes the UB wait for real speed in DP.

[jgest]

thanks for your feedback