The 17" Behemoth

Well, I posted a few days ago that I was going to wait until the next iteration of the 17" PowerBook. I lied. I got (from the same source mentioned before) a lead on a deeply discounted 17" PowerBook and had to jump at it. I am now typing on one. Just as with the 12" PowerBook, I am impressed. I have to laugh everytime I look at it, though. I feel like I am taking out one of the original 20 lbs. laptops (w/ their 9" greyscale screens) when I pull it out of my backpack. But, the moment I open the screen, all changes. I sit in front of my computer the good part of every day and am simply amazed at what a difference a 17" screen makes on your eyes. For some reason, I like screens that are wider than they are tall. The side-to-side real estate is much more important for me than sheer size - and that is what makes this machine the ultimate pleasure. The fact that I can put two browser windows side by side (almost) and/or a text/html editing window next to the browser window is soooo nice. That and I no longer need to hook up to an external monitor to do my web-work. I'm going to miss the 12" PB, but I'm not going to regret using this machine... I still need a power solution for this beast (it runs a little bit short on battery power when streaming audio and reading/writing - worse than the 15"), but I think I'm willing to deal with the pain ;)