bought an asus degatto 15000 a couple of weeks ago under company loan... its not as portable as a powerbook but it does withstand compiling every now and then while at the same time running an mp3 player plus a whole slew of office apps... it took some time to get accustomed to the windows environment again... but as soon as i have no need to run those legacy c++ builder app that am maintaining i might format it back to freebsd again... i had it run freebsd for the first week and it runs quite fine and stable... btw, i had the machine replaced twice already due to a factory defect on the lcd (the first one had two burnt pixel in it and the latter had only one)... nevertheless its a pretty damn good work machine and the lcd certainly eases the strain on ones eyes as opposed to those crt based monitors...