The white MacBook may look a little out of place among Apple's
current laptop offerings, but those looking for the best bang
for the buck may want to give the newly-updated model some
serious consideration, as it actually outperforms its more
expensive unibody counterpart. That word comes from the folks at
MacWorld, who ran some benchmarks and found that 2.13GHz white
MacBook was about five percent faster than the 2GHz unibody
MacBook on average. That's obviously largely attributable to the
faster processor, but the speedier 800MHz DDR2 memory didn't
hurt things either, even if it still lags a bit behind the
unibody's 1,066MHz DDR3 RAM. For comparison's sake, Macworld
also found that the 1.8GHz MacBook Air was a full 12 percent
slower than the white MacBook, while the 2.4GHz MacBook Pro
offered a 10.5 percent performance gain, and displayed an even
bigger advantage when its higher-end graphics came into play.
Updated white MacBook gets benchmarked, outperforms unibody
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