The “white” MacBook would perform better than the Unibody?

Last week, Apple has silently updated the “white” MacBook, giving it a 2.13GHz processor, a hard-disk with more space and faster RAM. The guys from MacRumors have tested the improved model and got to a very unexpected conclusion: The white MacBook offers better performances than the Unibody that is sold for €250 more.

The white MacBook resulted better than the Unibody one in almost all benchmark tests done by MacRumors. The testing was done using Adobe Photoshop CS3, iMovie HD, Cinema 4D XL 10.5 and other applications with functions that stress the CPU or the graphic card. The MacBook Unibody won only with Quake 4.

Even if the MacBook Unibody has a better case and other advantages such as a better display, the situation is kind of strange for Apple now that they have a notebook that costs €949 and performs better than the “better” model that costs €1199. It would be easy to say that it’s likely that the MacBook Unibody will (or should) be updated soon.