Need help in chooseing

Hi all
I am debating weather or not to purchases a MacBook or a MacBook Pro. I need your advice on what I should get.
I am coming from Ubuntu/Windows.
My needs and general programing, word possessing,web design possible gaming, photo editing and storage and possible video editing.
Plus I don't want to get something that will be underpowered adn out of date in 6 months.
I anxiously await your input.
Thanks

from what you describe the macbook is probably fine
but if the gaming/photo editing/video editing are going to be high frame rates/large files/hd video then the mbp might be handy
i still use my 1.67ghz powerbook as well as a 2.4ghz mbp, for day to day tasks there's really not much difference, but for rendering animation and rendering/transcoding hd video the mbp is much faster
the difference between the macbook/mbp is going to be a lot smaller, unless you need the bigger display and extra ports of the mbp then the macbook is probably going to be much better value
but i'm not into gaming so the faster/better graphics of the mbp might matter for you there
as to underpowered/out of date, everything on the market will be out of date in a few months, but either mac should give you several years service, system power won't be an issue unless you significantly change usage patterns
fwiw i'm on my second powerbook, i replace every 3-ish years as that's the limit on applecare service, but the 500mhz tibook i bought early in 2001 is still being used happily by the friends i gave it to and runs current office/email/surfing applications perfectly well

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