The quest for a new notebook

As Apple recently announced their new line of MacBooks (as successor of the iBook series), and since my iBook is feeling too slow for such a long time already and running out of disk space, I'm currently in the mood of searching for a new notebook.

Actually, the MacBook looks really sexy, but if you look closer, you will see that it only comes with a crappy graphics card, an on-board Intel GMA 950 with shared memory, which has also been used in the Mac Mini, with lousy graphics performance. That's what currently keeps me off from buying one of them. But still, the EUR 1319,- offer looks very nice.

The other alternative would be a MacBook Pro, and it seems that Apple has lowered its prices for them. The 15,4" 2 GHz model now only costs EUR 1999,- instead of the EUR 2689,- before (and Apple shops like McShark still list it with that price).

Where are the non-Apple models? In fact, I'm not really interested in getting some other notebook than one from Apple. Although I've had some troubles with my iBook in the last 3,5 years (due to a faulty series of mainboards), it was otherwise pretty stress-free, and using it was generally a joy. So that's why I currently don't plan to make any steps to move away from Apple.

Anyway, these are the choices, let's see what my nearest Apple dealer says about the new MacBooks, and how much money I really want to spend.