How does new MB compare to old MBP?

Hi Guys,
In April of this year I bought a new MBP. I believe it to have the Penryn processor (whatever that means) and the multi-touch track pad. I miss the smaller footprint and lighter weight of my previous black MacBook.
I was just wondering how the specs of the new aluminium MacBook compare with my MBP. I currently have 2.4GHz Intel core 2 Duo, 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDram, 3MB L2 cache, bus speed 800MHz, GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 256MB Vram with a 200GB hard drive.
The new MacBook is 2.4GHZ, 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDram (though I could up the ram to 4GB), 3MB L2 cache, not sure of the bus speed, GeForce 9400M graphics with 256MB SDram and a 250GB hard drive.
Most of these details are very similar, but I don't know how much difference there is between 667MHz and 1066MHz, DDR2 and DDR3 SDram, and the 8600M GT processor with Vram verses the 9400M with SDram.
I am not concerned about the FireWire issue.
Any help from the enlightened ones would be most welcome.
Cheers

Hi,
I don't have neither Pro nor MacBook Al (yet, it's on the way), so I can't give you first hand answer. However you can compare benchmarks done by macworld.com.
Unfortunately, you have to go first to this website to see MacBook Al performance
http://www.macworld.com/article/136214/2008/10/macbookbenchmarks.html?t=201
and then to this one in order to compare with yours
http://www.macworld.com/article/132407/2008/03/macbookprocore2duo.html
Hope it gives you a bit more info.
Cheers.

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