Lifelong Mac user here and I see-sawed back and forth between an Air and a MacBook Pro. When the new 13" MacBook Pro's came out I waited for them to start appearing online in the Apple store refurbished section for about 15% off. That's where I've purchased all my Macs/iPods over the years.

The 13" Pro works great and saves me about 2 lbs from my previous 15" MacBook Pro that is now retired to home use only. I know a bunch of guys who have the old white/black MacBooks and they seem to satisfy their computing needs on the road. I would suggest looking at the brand new MacBook's with the unibody construction too.

I don't mess with the green screen, period. VIPS works great, BidX is the BOMB!, and I do my expense reports on Fred's time and dime using the computers in AOC/any ramp.

Been running Snow Leopard now for about a month and it's very fast, boots up in a click, and haven't had any issues with it. Haven't tried to connect in the AOC lately, had heard the same rumor that the entire wireless network was going to be taken down because of firewall/hacking issues.