ah, Macbooks.
Fancied one of these for ages.
Mostly because I've worked with Macs doing audio stuff and they're absolutely lovely. MBPs are also very, very pretty.
Would basically be looking for all the normal day to day msn/internet/torrents/lots of lots of music stuff, with enough power in it to have a firewire mixer, microphones and preamps set up for me to just come home, stick the macbook on the desk and plug it all in and for it to work.
I know I'll need at least 2GB of Ram, a hard drive with a decent number of rpm and a few firewire ports. Would imagine biggest screen possible would be good, some of the music applications get a bit.. busy.
I just want a Macbook more than anything, they seem so well made, like pretty much everything has been thought of. Like the motion sensing stuff from earlier in the thread. There only being one company putting stuff out means they wont cut corners to get an advantage, and everything is more likely to work, I presume.
But what do I know.
That iAlertU thing is both hilarious and complete and utter genius.