The new white MacBook is a solid buy

The new white MacBook is certainly a solid buy.  Even if it were not for it having a nice set of specs, it would still be a solid offering from Apple, due to its new unibody enclosure.

Having come to regard the term unibody as referring to the aluminum built MacBook Pros it seems a bit strange to refer to the white MacBook by it, but nonetheless, the terms is applied. The new enclosure provides a much more sturdy feel to it than the original, giving the notebook a perceived "higher quality" to its whole package.

The tech specs are good, though I recommend upgrading the RAM to 4GB when ordering a new one, specially if you plan to run any Windows applications through a virtual machine.  2GBs is on the low side for that as it will force you to run the VM with less than a full 1 GB which could be to low for the more heavyweight Windows applications.

While I haven't been able to go through a real non-stop usage scenario, I can say that I ran the computer for several hours of Web surfing through wi-fi, running a Windows application in a Parallels VM and watching videos.  Running the VM had a huge impact on battery life as the project duration dropped from almost five hours to just a bit over two, in the few minutes I was actually using the VM.  Once the VM had shutdown, battery life projection went up significantly again.

All in all the white MacBook is a good computer and I recommend it for people who, like me, live in countries where the difference in price between the white and aluminum models is running at 500USD or more.  If you're in a country with a smaller price difference, you might want to consider the top 13.3 inch MacBook as it has similar specs and builds in a Firewire port, more RAM and back lit keyboard, besides the obvious difference in enclosures.