Question on buying MBP - opinion needed

I currently own a last generation PB (1.67G with 2G RAM) and was thinking if it would worth the $ to upgrade to MBP.
Since my PB is almost running out of capacity (only 15GB left, and it will get used up pretty quick)...also I have a feeling that web browsing performance will no where near a MBP even already I maxed out the RAM.
But, I also heard Leopard 10.5 will be released in October.
Here're some of my Qs:
1. shall I wait until that time and buy one with the 10.5 or get one now and upgrade it later?
2. what's the difference between 2.33 and 2.4GHz besides the processor speed?
3. if you own both PB 1.67 and a MBP (i.e. one w/2.33 or 2.4), do you see a huge difference in speed on web browsing?
4. is there a software out there that works like carbon copy cloner for intel Mac's?
5. last question, is there any way to boot a PPC-cloned OS 10.4 Tiger from MBP? For example, I cloned my PB's OS 10.4 Tiger to a bootable external firewire drive. Is it possible to boot up that drive from a MBP? If not, any solution?
thanks

1. Depends, if you can get by with what you have, then you'll save $129 bucks by waiting.
2. Major difference is the 800 mhz FSB vs 667 mhz fsb, the santa rosa chipset (allows expansion to 4GB of memory) and the graphics chip, Nvidia 6800M GT vs. ati 1600.
On the 15" the backlight is led, on the 17" you get the option of a hi res screen.
3. For universal applications, the MBP will blow away the PB. It has 2 cores giving it 2 processors. As far as web browsing, you probably will see a minor increase in response, but most of the performance of a web browser is limited by internet connection speed, not the computer.
4. Carbon copy clone works for the intel macs.
5. No, the PPC clone doesn't have the needed intel code. But you can use migration assistant to move all of your programs and data files over. It works very good. Also, the new MBP has some OS files that are needed from the original install. I tried to clone a 10.4.10 copy from a Macbook and it failed miserably on the MBP even though the system was 10.4.9 on the MBP.
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