Not sure whether it is costing me a whole bunch more than a comperable PC or not...

MacBook 13-inch (Black) - yeah, so I know I pay more for black but I don't care :-p
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2 times 1GB
2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
250GB Serial ATA drive @ 5400 rpm
Superdrive 8x (DVD+-R DL/DVD+-RW/CD-RW
AUS$2,222.73 (which includes 10% student discount)
(USD$1,916 - though that might not be fair since you guys might pay less for computers like ya do with communications)

Though I'll get the 3 year extended warantee too...
And a travel adapter and dongle for projector and carry case...

One of my mates is telling me I'd be better to go with the entry level macbook pro - but I think I'd rather upgrade the RAM and Harddrive (as I've done above) and enjoy the smaller size, lighter weight, and slightly longer battery life.

I will not play games.
I promise.

So since I won't be using much in the way of graphics (ppt / keynote and word / whatever the mac program is) aren't that demanding I'm not sure what advantage there would be in my getting a macbook pro. And... They're not black :-p

Just want to use it to write my thesis (don't dare crap out on me with a 100 page document)
And do some seminars (yay for the pretty apple remote)

Just want to keep it clean (not junked up with music and video and photos and crap) and hopefully FAST.

:-)

But I don't know anything about computers really...