Playing 1080p videos on 1.83 macbook with 2GB

Hi there! I need some help here.
I have a imacG5 1.8 with superdrive and an old G3 ibook and i really need to get a new laptop. I can't decide between the 1.83 and the 2.0 macbook. i don't wanna spend more than 1300$ because new core 2 duo intel chips will start coming out and both 1.83 and 2.0 macbooks will soon become obsolete. Besides, the new pro mac's will probably showup at the WWDC at a start price of 2000$ with blasting performance.
I don't need a superdrive on the laptop because i already had one on my imac G5. If i need to backup i simply reboot it in target mode and do my thing.
I saw some benchmarkings and the two machine seemed very similar in performance. One thing that no one had posted was the performance when playing 1080p videos on a 2gb 1.83 macbook.
Can someone confirm if it will play them flawless, and if i'm thinking the right way?
If the 1.83 runs imovie, idvd and 1080p flawlessly, i thing that i should't spend that extra 200$ for a few seconds of performance. I think it should be better to invest on the 2Gb of RAM.
What do you think? Thanks!
Paulo Lemos

Playing 1080i uses approximately 80% of the 1.66GHz Core Duo in my Mac mini (playing full screen on a 1920 x 1200 resolution display) for the most part. There are moments of high speed video that puts it over the edge (I think) and the frame rate momentarily drops from from its optimal. Given that I think a 1.83GHz MacBook should be able to run at optimal frame rates at all time.

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