I had a new Mac Book Pro to look at for the last few days. With Apples new design of the Mac Book and the Mac Book Pro they have moved the two closer to one another than ever before. The case is not only nice to look at, but feels solid. I have felt that both have been great choices for a long time. I for one have always liked the Mac Book Pro better because of its case, but with the redesign I am not sure that will hold true. Now the one that I have had to use the last few days was the $1999.00, with the default setup that Apple ships with.
But if you are about to get yourself a new laptop and are not using it to play games or higher end video editing, I would look at the new Mac Book. The case is made the same way as the Mac Book Pro and with the other updates it is the one I would get for myself.
As for using the Mac Book Pro I found that I enjoyed it. There was nothing that jumped out at me other than the track pad and Apple has come out and said that they are working on an update to fix that. It would some times not see that I was moving my fingers, but I would just pick them up and put them back down and it always started working again. With as much as Apple has changed on the new Mac Book Pro I say that they did this update with a lot of thought going in to it.
So the bottom line is that I found this new Mac Book Pro to be more than what I believed it would be. I believe you would not go wrong buying the new Mac Book Pro or the new Mac Book.