Now It Is Certain

With Apple's realease of the new macbook and macbook pros, It became clear to me that a macbook would be out of the question. If I get a mac, it will be a 15" macbook pro. Nothing else is really worth it... The 13" pro is a good enough macbook, but if I'm to have a pro it should mean something. In reading the gizmodo reviews (and comments), I found that everything is basically good, but less elitist. I'm a scientist, so elitism runs deep in my blood... I almost hate to say it, but I would like very much to be able to be at least a little snobby in my choice of computer.
There were two sides, and I'm partial to both. On one hand, the price drop makes macbook pros infinitely more accessible to the general public. One doesn't need to be a high-salary professional to get a pro. On the other hand, the "dumbing down" of the pro line makes it mean less to have one.
I am not yet a high-salary professional, and I would have (somewhat grudgingly) purchased an aluminium macbook for starters. That is no longer available, however, so I turned to the macbook pros.
Everything that I've heard and read says that the 13" pros are slightly upgraded macbooks with a new name, and that does not interest me, despite my low budget. I've said it before, but I want a macbook pro to mean something special.
So it's a 15" for me, probably the 2.53 GHz. We'll see what the sumer brings, but I will hopefully have that elusive computer long before September.
All in all, I'm rather disappointed with Apple. They are undoubtedly still making good computers. But a macbook pro should be more than that.