Should I go with the 12" or the 15"?

My PB Titanium 15" died this week. Too bad, because I really liked it. I had a 7200 RPM drive in there with 1G of RAM and it was actually pretty peppy.
My main system at home is a G5 dual-core 2.0 tower. However, I travel often and would like to replace my Ti-book with a new PB.
I'm having trouble deciding which one to get. I'll be using it mostly for web browsing, email, light photo editing (mostly in iPhoto, though Aperture may be a possibility in the future), iWork, Garage Band, etc. I don't really do heavy graphics work, video editing or processor intensive stuff.
I see that the graphics card on the 12" is 64mb while it's 128mb on the 15". How significant would that difference be using the applications I mentioned above?
Also, I see that it's not possible to add a 7200 RPM drive to the 12". When I did that for my PB Titanium, I noticed a huge speed difference. Again, I'm wondering if the difference between the 5400 RPM drive on the 12" and the 7200 RPM drive on the 15" would be discernible with the apps I'm using?
In terms of price, I'm a student so I get a discount. I get $100 off the 12", but $200 off the 15". Hmmm.
I've had a 15" PB for years now and haven't minded the larger size. The monitor of the 12" seems awfully small, but I'm guessing I'd get used to it and it wouldn't be such an issue with Expose now.
I'd appreciate your thoughts!
Thanks.
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As far as the battery swap, I'll explain it more thoroughly just to make sure you understand. I don't want you to find out it wasn't what you were thinking.
When you put the PowerBook 12" to sleep and remove a battery, it will shut off if it's not plugged in because it will have no power. With the 15" and 17", when you put them to sleep and remove the battery, they will stay powered for 15-30 seconds (and then shut off if you haven't put in a new battery). This allows you to swap the battery during the same session and not lose your work.
In addition, on these models (15" and 17"), if the battery runs out while it's in sleep mode, when you plug it in and turn it back on it will resume your previous session, like nothing had happened. This is thanks to the safe sleep feature which stores the contents of main memory on the hard drive before going to sleep, and if the computer shuts down improperly, writes them back into main memory and resumes operation upon startup. The Apple knowledge base article can be found here.
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