If you can't see a difference between a Caviar Green and Caviar Black, then I come to the conclusion that your use of hard drives must be pretty casual. I saw a day and night difference when I changed the CG to CB in my older computer.

the day they wld cost 399 wld be the day steve jobs will be back from dead

did you even read the news? or you just noticed the 'mac' word on the title and started typing bad words?

Your needs are different from others. You might be satisfied with a high-end system that uses half it's system resources to just keep the OS alive - anti-virus, buggy softwares, insanely low battery life. Agreed the same system would let you play games at ultra settings without a sweat.

Macs on the other hand might not have the cutting edge configs, but in terms of productivity they are king. Which is why a lot of people who require that kind of productivity buy it. They are built to last, their battery lasts even longer, and they stay cool.

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's crap. If you've never experienced chocolate before, would you think a brownie is a piece of crap?

Peace.

Talking about beautiful design, there's a refreshed design slated to come soon with the next late 2012 mbp update. Rumors are thick with mentions about LiquidMetal.

Please don't make too much sense...you'll hurt some people's heads.

7200 rpm hard drives have been found to lower battery life by 15 minutes compared to 5400 hdds. But when you consider the avg mac getting 5 hours of battery life, it doesn't make a lot of difference.