Depends on what you plan to use with it and budget assigned to it.
Choices breakdown can be:
1) MBW and upgrade the memory and hard disk.
2) MBP 13" 2.26 and upgrade the memory and hard disk.
3) MBP 13" 2.53 and upgrade the hard disk

Personally not much of difference in term of choice 1 and 2 but more towards choice 1 and 3

I went for the choice 3 since I got nearly half price off for it.

BUT...you might want to wait for a while say 1-2 months since they are planning for refresh and not sure if MBP 13" are affected or not.

I don't prefer white since it can get yellowish/dirty, heavy since I travel alot with 2 laptop, scratch etc....
I would go for option 2 if not for the price that I got. Now I'm waiting for the new refresh since I need to buy another one for someone. Being an unofficial helpdesk to solve Windows problem across the globe can cost a few mbp

ridiculously wrong

it's not insurance! if you split water on your computer, you still have to pay for repair

ACPP=extended warranty

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Added on February 24, 2010, 7:03 am

hunt for dell

piece of advise for you
never compare mac hardware with others, it looks "basic"

well
if hardware spec is everything
why it's not ACER still failed to deliver?

I'm not an Apple fanboy because if I do I would be a mac user since ages ago. Mac was engineered from ground up and not something where you just mix and match to get the almost same thing. You might get almost close but you need to remember that the piece of thing that you have right now is of engineering wonders.
For example let me take you on different path. No offence to others though but a Wira/Waja with an Evo engine is still a Wira/Waja compared to Mitsubishi Evo. The car was engineered from ground up meaning everything is thought for and not just about horsepower. Yes some might boast about having 600bhp which is the same for modified Evo as well but can it sustain laps over laps in track? Maybe the engine won't break down on you but other parts were not designed to work with that kind of bhp. Bear in mind that all engineering goodies comes with a nice price tags with different type of headaches.
For example not all country have Apple store or even Apple Authorised resellers etc. I was in Tunis recently for about 1 half month and on my last week there I got to know that there is one Apple first Authorised Reseller shop opening on that same week. Imagine if anything happen to my Mac then, it would be headache to get things done fast. Not only that, even if you want something for your Mac then it might be of a problem as well as I went to the shop, had a nice long chat with them and got to see what they have in store.

So in short Mac is engineered from ground up. The hardware was designed with the exact OS in mind. You can always read what are the engineering wonders that they have in the Mac from Apple website and do abit of thinking there for a while. Enjoy and utilize all or most of the wonders they have

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Added on February 24, 2010, 5:27 pm

If you have a PPTP or OpenVPN account you might try that one out although some do block PPTP as well.
Another solution, if this mail is your own mail, own domain hosting kinda thing, try to use other method like SSL (different port) etc instead of normal SMTP.