Well, in contradiction to my last post, I've decided to go one up from a Netbook.

I will be buying a MacBook Air, 13" model with the Core i5.

It's a case of needing something that will not just be comfortable to pull out whenever, but comfortable to use, type on, etc.

I've always been a bit of a Mac fan. I once turned one of the home PCs into a hackintosh, which worked for a time, but it eventually broke (age of the parts, not the OSes fault in any way). I've never owned an iMac or a MacBook at any stage, purely because I've never been able to justify the price of it. I once nicknamed the original MacBook Air the "Snap"", because it was too thin for what I considered a viable laptop.

Having played with a mid-2011 model, I can say I'm thoroughly pleased. The screen is nice and bright, it's awfully light, about the same as a netbook, and at a 7 hour battery life, it makes my 15.6" Acer cry.

The $1449 pricetag doesn't scare me off, but it's sort of out of pocket for me at the moment. Suffice to say, I'm at least 1/10th of the way there, which isn't saying much.