[Schumi]

Every laptop manufacturer has ****ty power adapters... mainly the plug itself. They use a cheap connection allows the solder joints to fatigue easily. I've never seen a laptop with a real solid power connector except for the magnetic ones that Powerbooks use. I used to have both a Titanium powerbook and the later aluminum intel based powerbook... both solid machines.

I'm just not willing the pay the Mac tax, or settle for a cheap mac with inferior hardware.

This HP i'm looking at is similar in performance to a Macbook air at 1/4th the price.

The reason I had my last powerbook was because I got it through the university at a steal (normal price was around $1650, I got it discounted to $1000) ... but it was still $250 more than this dell I had just bought that, back then, was brand new still. I was going to just keep both, then felt dumb that I spent the money and ended up selling the powerbook on ebay for a $500 profit. Running windows, my dell was just as fast as the powerbook.