A friend of mine just switched to an Apple Powerbook. He's been very happy with it so far. If the Powerbook is too far out of your price range, you could always go with the iBook, which is highly recommended by anyone who has one. If I had money to blow on a laptop, i'd probably get an iBook myself. The nice thing about the new Macs is that OS-X is based on Unix, and Unix is fun!
