What Rat said - I have the 15" and it's beeeyoooootiful. You can get the student/teacher version of Office for about $120. I didn't go crazy, but I did get a fair amount of memory etc so that I could make it last a while. I'm not the type to buy laptops regularly. See
this thread! We talked about it a bit before it degraded into "mac vs. pc" stuff.
