If I were to purchase a new Mac laptop

[BobMarley]

Should I get a macbook pro, or a regular macbook?

I currently use a dell 700m, small, lightweight, centrino, 4gb of ram.
I use a web browser for work, having sometimes 50 tabs open at once.
I use MS Access.

I would like to hook up my hd video camera and edit on my laptop, but it's not a thing I would do all the time.

I love a snappy computer and run my xp clean, no extra stuff, lots of ram, and keep things running quite well.

My girl bought a Macbook pro and I fell in love with it, the stability alone was great. She purchased it for graphic design, so I understand why she would go for the pro.

I'll wind up running Parallels or something for programs that only run in a Windows environment.

So, I think that's about it, I don't really game on a my laptop, I have consoles for that.

Thanks!

I think I'm leaning towards the mbp, but the extra 1500, to me, is kind of excessive, no?
1k is easier for me to swallow rather than 2500.

[Nightfall4]

Macbook Pro hands down. The extra processing power for running those the windows environment comes in handy. Wait a bit though. Macbook Pros and Macbooks are due for an update soon.

[madmacmat]

So, after the aforementioned update I'd go for the Macbook if I were You....

- You won't need the extra graphics bang of the pro

- is Your HD FireWire? then You'd be in some kind of a conflict- but due to the reduced footprint and weight while being REALLY powerful all things point to the MacBook if You ask me...

btw, I like to run my system as you describe it: no frills, no fancy animations, clean setup... the difference is, I do it on a 3 year old PB12" with 1GB of RAM, running OS 10.5.5 without a slowdown to talk about...

you could opt to go for the "lighted keyboard" MacBook with 4GB RAM if you want.... if You haven't bought anything yet, that is ;-)

[BobMarley]

thanks Madmacmat, yes, I think I'm steering towards the mb.