My MacBook - Showing its age

My very first Mac is sitting here in front of me, still churning out the ones and zeroes, still compiling code, letting me write up papers, play music and films. But, alas, I fear its end is near. I have one of the early MacBook models, its white plastic body covered in stickers. One of the models where there is a 2GB limit on RAM, that my friends, is a problem.

Over the last few months I have noticed I am constantly out of memory, my laptop slows down to try to process everything, the fan speed shoots up to maximum, and the little beach ball of doom appears over all my apps.

It has reached the point where it has become too noticeable, too frequent, and too noisy! It may be time to move up to a MacBook Pro. If the 15 inch model had a 1920x1200 screen, I would purchase it right now. But without that, I find myself constantly putting it on the long finger.

I have deliberated, at length, over the 17" and the 15" MacBook Pro models. The 17" is a little too big, and above my 2.5kg weight limit that I set years ago on laptops. But, it has that beautiful 1920x1200 screen, that gives almost 80% more screen real estate to play with versus the 15" screen. Why Apple, why will you not make a 15" WUXGA screen? I might even settle for WXSGA+, but for the love of all that is holy, give us the option!