Apple's 13-inch laptop sees the return of FireWire.

When Apple released the aluminum unibody MacBook in October 2008, the differences between the MacBook and MacBook Pro laptop lines narrowed to a point where folks began to wonder when Apple would decide to merge the two lines into one. With the introduction of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro model (in two versions)--and the reconfiguration of the MacBook line so that it now features a single white 2.13GHz MacBook--a clear distinction between the two lines is back.