I've got a PowerBook and can't go with anything less now. You'd be hard-pressed to find a computer this light and thin with the amount of useable features this thing has. The 15.2" widescreen is still too big for me but I'm growing on it (had the computer since July 2003 .. I prefer 14.1" screens at the most on laptops, after all they're supposed to be portable). I can't deny build quality either, this thing has been abused to oblivion and back and still takes more beatings. example:
dropped three feet off a table, case pops out but it still works perfectly fine .. and this isn't the last thing to happen to this comp.
Had a Sony Vaio before this, loved that laptop. I'd recommend looking into them as an option. Mine (PCG-FXA53) had a bunch of little features and nice touches you wouldn't expect in a laptop, such as a removable floppy drive to put in a second battery (not a removable optical drive as was common in laptops of the time, they recognized that the optical drive is a more necessary thing to keep in). Keyboard wasn't bendy either, yet the keys weren't stiff ... a rare but appreciated combination.
As always IBM has proven its reliability among laptops, and are often noted as having the most comfortable typing keyboards, although with most models you are forced to get a pointer stick rather than a touchpad.
