You really can get this information from Google. A bit of effort on your part will go a long way... But, for the sake of enlightenment and since I have the urge to type (having just bought a bluetooth mouse/keyboard combo for the MBP at work) here goes:

Get the new models. Specifically the 2.2 Ghz one.

Why? Let me ennumerate the differences:

1. Santa Rosa. This is the new motherboard chipset from Intel and the new MBPs are among the first laptops to support them. It has a new, faster memory architecture which allows for faster transfer of data and consequently a faster machine beyond that which is obvious from clockspeeds.

2. The new chipset also allows for a maximum of 4Gb RAM. RAM is also extremely cheap at the moment. I got a couple of 2GB sticks for USD198. Shipping of course is extra. Even without upgrading; the new MBPs come with 2GB base.

3. The LED backlit displays provide for brighter and more importantly more even saturation of colors. Put two MBP displays side by side and the newer LED displays are immediately obvious in clarity. You will however need to tweak the ColorSync profile ( A Gamma of 2.2 is essential). The displays are also supposed to stay brighter for a longer time as opposed to the brightness degradation seen in CCFL displays.

4. WiF "N" aka Airport Extreme enabled out-of-the-box.

5. Larger built in harddrive (I've since upgraded to a Western Digital Scorpio 250Gb internal) with my original drive in a OWC Mercury FW800/400/USB2 external case. Schweeet.

6. Do you really need six reasons? Of course you do.... The Graphics circuitry in the new MBP moves up to the Mobility Radeon 8600M GT from the ageing ATi X1600. The nVidia chipset is the best-in-class as far as laptop GPUs go. The 2.2 Ghz MBP sports 128Mb versus 256Mb VRAM in the 2.4 Ghz model. Tests at BareFeats however show the additional 128Mb VRAM don't increase performance beyond that which is explained by the 0.2 Ghz clockspeed of the CPU.

This post has been edited by MacDaNife: Jul 12 2007, 10:19 PM

If you can afford to wait by all means do so... The newer machine will always be faster/cheaper/better. Thing is; some of us have WORK to get done in the meantime. And time wasted is productivity lost....

I bought my harddrive and memory from www.mcetech.com.my. I could not find the 250Gb 2.5in SATA drives locally. A cruise around LYP yielded comments like "where got so big?". In addition I bought a FW800/400/USB2 enclosure for the 160Gb drive that I swapped out of the MBP from One World Computing.

Should have saved shipping by buying it all from OWC but as they say: shoulda-coulda-woulda...

Shipping from MCEtech (FedEx international priority) cost USD 51 .

Shipping from OWC was cheaper.

If you're looking for a 12" iBook battery, I'd suggest calling VR Technologies and asking them to order it for you. It would be cheaper....