[Swordmaker]

I have the late 2008 unibody MacBook, so I was a little bummed out by today’s upgrade. By putting it in the Pro line, the MB gets a better display panel, Firewire, and a speed bump. I feel like I’ve missed out.

I learned a long time ago that whenever I bought something, it would be upgraded, lower priced, improved on, just afterward... usually just a day or so outside the window of opportunity to exchange it for the newer, better, cheaper, greater, spiffier model.

With Apple, I learned to appreciate that ANY Mac is a great computer that will last me for years, get faster with every OS update, and run the latest and greatest just like the new one. (Unfortunately, my G series computers can't go where my Intel series Macs can with Snow Leopard, so I guess that's the exception that proves the rule... whatever that means.)

[Terpfen]

You’re exactly right. This unibody MacBook will be a great machine, a handy device through the next presidential elections and beyond.

I just thought that Apple wouldn’t bother updating the MacBook line until Intel released their Calpella platform in Q3, and then all of these updates—FireWire, better battery, unification of the MacBook and the MB Pro line—would happen then.