Alright, dtoid. I've been looking at buying a new notebook for the last two or so months, and really been thinking about what exactly I want out of a laptop. Right now I'm using a 15 inch compaq, it's nothing terribly fancy, and it does what I want it to do. the battery is shot, and the motherboard feels like it's going (I get random shut-offs every so often...) This is a laptop though, and I can't help but feel that I even want to go smaller. After looking in stores, I've found (and fallen in love with) 13.3" displays, they're small, portable, but they're large enough that I can do my stuff on it, if I need to, I've got a 23" screen hooked up to my PC :P.

The problem is that the industry doesn't quite agree with me, and thinks I need a 17" display... The only two manufactures of 13.3" laptops are honestly Sony, and Apple. Sony being incredibly expensive for sub-par hardware, and the Macbook looking like it's right in the sweet spot, which bugs me a bit. The macbook is white, which is my color, which is a really big bonus... the only two things that are a big disadvantage to me are the lack of right click (remedied easily though, so I'm told when in Windows.) and, well the hardware. Personal experience has told me that Apple isn't quite the most reliable, on my iPod I happened to have three battery failures and two hard drive wipes in a year, I understand that this is un-usual... but personal experience is something that you carry with you.

So, any dtoid posters use a macbook? If so, would you recommend it to me? (Keep in mind, I will absolutely be dual booting in XP, and using XP 9/10 times), can anyone else point me in the direction of another 13.3" laptop, preferably in white and not as gougehappy as Sony? I'm open to any suggestion, and yes I'm aware that macs are for fags, but I've gotta carry this thing around campus with me, smaller the better. (On that note, I'm not buying an EEE.)