Originally posted by dave sz There are no new macbooks. They are just the old ones with aluminum shells, no?
No, these are a new design, with Nvidia hybrid graphics that belch fire compared to the older MacBooks, at least according to the benchmarks Apple posted for them. They also have a slightly revised Penryn, and use the MacBook Air's power adapter.
I just picked up a 2.1Ghz Penryn MacBook used a few months ago for $700 with Office and a wireless mouse. I basically stole it. The owner had it for two months, used it three times, and hated it, so wanted to get rid of it. He spent the $700 on a Toshiba. Ah well. I plan on sticking 4Gb of memory in it for Aperture use (1Gb is horrendous, even without any other programs running, probably because of the onboard graphics), but otherwise, I'm pretty happy with it.