addition: I forgot to mention, when the overhead light was bright, such as being outside, the Powerbook was much harder to read than the glossy screen. The matte finish on the Powerbook, in a way, holds the light where it hits, thus giving the whole panel a lightness that makes it hard to see the image below. So in some cases, glossy can be better.

It would be great to see the ipod Pod concept take place – where pluggin in an iPod into any OS X machine allows you to run it like ‘your computer’. Although as atariboy often says – moving from a large display to a small means your windows and icons get jumbled.

I am a MacBook 1.83gHz owner since about three weeks and so far this is the best macintosh machine I ever bought/owned. I pretty much agree with atariboys pro and cons, however I find the keyboard to be better than the MBP/PowerBook keyboard. It takes some getting used to it, but it definitely starts feeling very nice after a while. Why did I get the white 1.83 model?

To me the biggest pro is battery life which is about 4h for me, doing development work. In my tests the 1.83 actually outperforms my MBP 2.0 gHz, because the MBP is constantly overheating and throtteling down the CPU.

As far as the screen is concerned I would very much prefer a matte screen, those glossy displays are a step backwards in computer evolution and it all seems just a weird marketing gimmick, making the life of us users harder. That’s why I ordered a 3m Anti-Glossy foil and I’ll post here once it arrive and I got some results.

The dirty issues atariboy describes are not a problem for me. Maybe because I got a white model.. maybe because my fingers are cleaner :P.

Overall, the MB imho puts the rev1 MBPs to shame and I feel almost cheated by having spent almost 3x as much money on that MBP. I recommend the MB to anyone who wants to buy a mac portable right now.

Good point about having the screen size at home.
For me, a portable should be truly portable. For work on the go. if you have a nice biggun of a screen at home you can use that to do most of your work, and then something light and little to chuck in a bag is ideal.
Nice to know about the good wifi reception, that’s becoming more and more important these days.

I’d like a little more HD space, but this is taken care of with the point above. Keep all the chunky stuff on your desktop.

I think I’ll wait to see what comes out after WWDC, if nothing improves, I might save for a MATTE mac book. Probably in white.

-Mathieu