PowerBook 17"
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I love mine a lot. I've had it for 2 months and haven't crashed once. There are some OS X people on here who haven't crashed in over a year.
The screen is the nicest thing about the computer.
If you're waiting for a G5 Powerbook, it's not coming any time soon. They have cooling fan issues. I would expect that in about a year.
Here's my complaint. The advertised battery life is an ABSOLUTE LIE. I have never gotten more than half of that. I took it to the Apple Store and they told me to dim the screen to some unusable level, not use too intensive programs, set the energy settings to "longest battery life" and then with some chance you can get 3.5 hours. (At the time I told them the advertised time was 3.5 because I forgot. I think they were pretending to have forgotten too. Would they really not know such a thing?)
A second battery would cost about $130, but then the whole purchase would be over 4 grand with tax and an extra 500 megabytes of ram.