Calling all BLACK MACBOOK owners!!! Quick!!!

fwiw, my iBook (only in white) shows wear on my heavily used keys and on the side of the touchpad where i use it to scroll. at various angles u can see it both bc of the wear on the surface but also from the natural oils which are likely accrued there from my fingers. i currently have (toshiba) and have had dark notebooks where the same thing occurs. imo it's just to be expected with a notebook if u have it for long enough. regarding the rest of the notebook, apple went with the matte coating for the black mackbooks, to specifically avoid the finger print issues that are prevalent on the glossy black iPods. on the white macbooks u'll end up w/ smudges every now and again which u can usually just wipe off w/ your finger, but the point being that dark smudges will show up more readily on white when u do get them.

my old roommate had a toshiba notebook as his only computer and since he was in grad school for a number of years almost all of his letter keys were not only glossy, but most of the letters were actually worn down! like i said, it's just part of computing, desktop or notebook. if you're really that anal about it regardless of what you buy, you could just buy a new KB to install down the road when they get too worn down for your tastes. OKAY!!!??????

ive noticed like grease(a little) on certain keys like the space bar, but im sure it can be cleaned. i saw a white macbook at my college and the girls white was discolored orange or something. it was gross. im happy with black

Its not as bad as I thought it would be. I am kind of used to it though, I own a black Motorola Razr, and its about the same finish and everything. I think my phone may be worse than the macbook actually. I love the color though, I am really glad I picked it over the white

im te direct opposite as you! ive got the white mb, and a white fusic phone, COULDNT BE HAPPIER dirt wise. ive seen a few blackbooks, and can say, they show usage/dirt much easier. this is considering that i rarely clean my hands before i use my whitebook, and rarely clean it. also assuming some of the people at school, that look like the type of people to make a special trip to the bathroom just to use there blackbook

My sis-in-law got a white the same time i got mine. The black really really shows off smudges both on the shell and the trackpad so in that aspect white wins. But IMO, white really looks best in an environment like the mac store where they can match bright white walls with a bright white notebook. But in the real world the black just looks so darn classy because its "ordinary" but its got that snazzy white apple.

Im very happy i got my blackbook and my sis-in-law is happy with her white. So in the end i guess its all personal preference. So if you cant decide just get the bono-red one thats going to come out.

yum, redbook.

yuK