My older son ended up needing my (loaded) PowerBook for college, so I elected to take a small downgrade and replace it with a Macbook (not Pro) for myself.

Aside from a few annoyances, I'm pretty happy with it. I ended up partitioning the 120Gb drive into an 80Gb slice for Mac OS X and a 40 Gb slice for Windows XP. I plan on using the XP partition to hold games and viruses. And possibly Visual Studio 2005, which I picked up a copy of for $60 at the Microsoft Company Store when I was in Redmond.

I like the fact that when connected to an external monitor and keyboard, you can operate the Macbook closed. The actual operation seems to be fairly well thought out - close the Macbook, plug in the external monitor and keyboard and hit a key on the external keyboard to wake it up to display on the external monitor.

I don't care for the keyboard, which reminds me of the old TRS-80 Color Computer chicklet keyboard. Oh, and my Macbook is black and the lack of keyboard backlighting hurts.

Bootcamp is great, and XP runs nicely. The lack of a Delete key is a huge pain however, and having to press the right-hand Apple key while clicking in order to perform a right-click is just ridiculous. Isn't like 90% of the world right-handed? Aside from that, it's nice and fast and, in fact, regardless of what the armchair pundits speculated, the graphics adapter isn't bad - WoW runs at between 30 and 60 FPS.

I'm also trying out Parallels, since I occasionally have the need to run Windows Server 2003. I haven't decided though, whether it makes more sense to just boot from the XP partition and use VMWare.