Been running this Hackintosh since last year, both my home and work machines are desktops pieced together with off the shelf PC components hooked to Dell monitors.



But when it comes to portables, nothing compares to the price and performance of Apple laptops. Netbooks are weak, and cheap PC's are just cheap PC's. Apple may not have a $500 notebook, but compare a top of the line Dell with a top of the line Apple, and you get more computer for less money from Apple every time.



If you want the best possible piece of kit for traveling on a Moto, it's the Apple MacBook Air. The 11" model with 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM and 128Mb flash drive completely anhilates anything in the netbook world. That's a real Core 2 Duo with an NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor, so you can edit videos, play photoshop, and use MS Office 2011, while running Ubuntu and Windows XP in the background with no problems. All of that comes packaged in a chunk of aluminum that makes other laptops feel like the cheap pieces of shit they are, and it still only weighs 335 grams (.74 pounds). It boots in 15 seconds, and the China Telecom USB dongle keeps me connected in almost every podunk town I've ever been through across the entire country. It's a lot of money, and I'm sure there will be plenty of other more economical options mentioned, but I've tried netbooks and MacBook Pro's on many trips, and nothing is as tough, powerful and compact as the 11" MacBook Air. It's the only current piece of Apple hardware I own, and the one thing they've made in the last couple of years that made me feel like an Apple fanboy again.

Cheers!
ChinaV