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hey, this is grad school anon! i have a couple of pieces of information that might help you make your choice:

- the new version will be half price to take for the first two months (august and september) that it's around, so if money is a factor, taking the new version might be in your best interest.

- in the current version, you can't skip a question and come back to it. if you skip a question, you lose the chance to answer it, so you might waste time trying to answer a question. in the new version, you'll be able to come back to questions you skipped if you have time at the end.

- the new version is longer than the old version, though, so it's kind of a tradeoff.

- the new version won't just be multiple choice, it'll also have fill in the blank on the verbal section, which again makes it harder in some ways.

- the new version is doing away with analogies and antonyms, so you won't have to memorize as much vocabulary. instead, they'll have text completion (3 blanks in a paragraph, you have to fill in the blanks) and sentence equivalence (pick one word that could fill in a blank in two sentences).

- there's a calculator included in the new gre, so you don't have to do arithmetic by hand.

- there will be less geometry in the math section - which could be an advantage if you aren't good at it, but a disadvantage if you are.

if you have the money, you could always take both exams and see which one you did better on!