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I agree with the battery comments. Buy a 2nd power adapter. Even if you can't leave one at work/school it saves mucho hassle being able to leave one plugged in at your home base. Leave the other in your backpack or car, just in case.
For a $2k laptop, 2GB is almost assumed these days.
MacBook Pro 15.4" 2.33GHz Core 2 Duos w/2GB are $2500 retail. Several hundred less through Amazon. The downside (for me) is the lack of ports. The BSD underpinnings and stability are a very welcome change even if you just run Parallels/VMWare for Windows on top.
For Windows only, give Asus laptops some consideration. They have the best values I've seen, especially through newegg.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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