Should I buy WD my passport for MAC or my passport ? for my mac book pro

Hello, I have a mac book pro and prepare to buy a 2TB portable hard drive for it. Should I get Western Digital "my passport for MAC" or "my passport" ? Today I went to apple store and the represetative told me to buy any portable hard drive and format it as FAT 32, so it will be working on both pc and mac. So i am wondering if I should spend CA$199 for "my passport for MAC" or CA$159 for "my passport". If the representative was telling me the truth, so what is the point to purchase the "my passport for MAC" with extra $40 ? Please give me a hand on it and I really appreciate it !!

The Apple store representative was correct about the format.
As far as the respective HDDs you mention I cannot give you any empirical information since I have no WD HDDs in my stable.  Seagates, Toshibas and Hitachi's. are the ones that I have and all are still spinning.
There are WD cheerleaders and detractors as is for all brands.  Being an inherently frugal person I would go for the less expensive one all other things being equal.  (Then the purchase of an Apple MBP is not act that a real frugal person would do.)
You might look on the Internet for better prices for the exact same product.  OWC, Newegg and Amazon should be investigated.
Ciao.

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