Originally Posted by huntjd

hey mate if you are tjinking of getting one i'd recommend you to wait about a month till the new ones are released (hopefully) on oct 14. After then the current MBP's will drop in price.

Also in regards to glossy vs matte, i'd go matte, while glossy looks better on the eyes, you'll find if using in a bright space there is pardon my french, a f%$^load of reflection. Given you will be using Photoshop go matte too as a matte screen produces colours better as opposed to glossy which due to its screen covering increases contrast.

Cheers!

Originally Posted by decryption

As someone who has owned all 3 laptops (MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air), I can give some decent advice - go the MacBook Pro. The other two are still fine laptops, but from my experiences, and for my use (which seems similar to yours), the MacBook Pro is great.

The MacBook is a very good laptop ($1649 for the mid-range model is great value), but it's integrated video card really holds it back. OS X is heavily dependent on the GPU as it's a modern OS and this impacts on it's overall performance. The latest MacBook may have better performance with the X3100 video chip however, my experiences are with the GMA 950 chip. The 13" screen bothered me, 1200x800 just isnt enough for this mult-tasking user

The MacBook Air is extremely portable - this is it's only redeeming feature however. Everything else about it lacks. The HDD is stupidly slow, the RAM is capped at 2GB permanently, the battery is fixed in, it only has 1 USB port and lacks an optical drive. At first I didn't think it would be an issue, but the longer I had it, the more I came up against it's limitations. I cut my losses and sold it.

The MacBook Pro however, is a great laptop and has never disappointed me. Combined with a 7200RPM HDD, it's as fast (or faster) than an iMac, the 1440x900 screen isn't as big as I'd like (anything under 1920x1200 is tiny for me ), but it's pretty good. It also means I don't really need a 2nd computer on my desktop. Hook it up to a bigger monitor, keyboard and mouse and I've essentially got an iMac. It's got the bigger screen, but it doesn't weigh much more (300g compared to the 13" MacBook).

That's just what I think though, at the end of the day, buy whatever you want