MacBook vs MacBook Pro

Ok I'm thinking of buying a Mac laptop (in before mac sucks, I have a custom desktop PC anyway) but I'm not sure if there is a considerable difference when choosing between the MacBook and the Pro. After customizing my order using the Apple Store, the difference in price between the two is about 1000 dollars. So I is there a considerable difference in terms of performance (I plan to use it for college work/graphic design)? Thank you in advance.

As a Macbook owner, I can honestly say that 95% of the time, the glossy display poses no problems for a few different reasons.  First, it's a widescreen, and because it's not very tall you don't have to angle it back quite as much for comfortable viewing.  Subsequently, a steeper angle catches less glare.  Second, the screen can be set to "bright as all fuck", and in those occasional situations with glare the screen overpowers the glare anyway.  The only time I ever have trouble with it is when I would've had trouble with any old laptop, i.e. outside or right next to a window.  The glossy screen also keeps everything looking sharper, clearer, and brighter (since it's not scattering the light).  Also, I don't know about those complaining about the small screen, but who the hell wants to carry a 10 pound, 17" widescreen notebook around all day?

So far as the computer itself, it's fast as hell with an upgrade to at least 1gb of RAM, which can be had from Newegg for about 60-70 dollars.  XP is more responsive on it than 2000 is on my Athlon 2500+, and it beats the hell out of my Mini while running OS X (although that's no big feat.)

And so far as this DRM shit people keep mentioning, that's only there to allow OS X to run on Macs, but prevent it from working on generic PC's.  And we all know how well that worked...