MBP or just MB?

I was just thinking whether I should get a MBP or just stay with my MB?
I was using the MB for final cut and stuff and I'm totally annoyed with the way that it always crash while rendering or just simply watching stuff in the viewer. Moreover, doing chapter markers while I'm doing DVDs using DVD studio pro takes FOREVER (since I hate iDVD anyways).
Another thing is that the hard drive is running out and I can barely find anything to delete and clear up space (since I have 60GB for bootcamp).
What should I use considering the points above and that I am not even in college yet and have to beg my parents when I want new computers!

You can easily put any sized HDD into a MB. So that's not an issue. A new MB and a new MBP both max RAM out at 4GM, so that's also a non-issue. I don't believe that the crashes you see have anything to do with the MB either. So that leaves the display quality, size, and performance.
How much is that worth to you? As a parent, I don't have much sympathy for the "bug you parents for a fancy computer" approach. If this is important to you, then can you work out some kind of arrangement so that you get a summer job so that you pay, say, the cost of a MBP over a new MB? Show them that this is important to you by putting your money where your mouth is.

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