My mom just got a macbook air - they look easy to break and the disc drive has to be plugged in, I don't like them very much but they would be easy to carry around if you will use one a lot.

I like Macbooks a lot, little more meat to them! I had an iBook for a couple years and just got an iMac last week (free ipod touch and printer and $100 off for students)!

I really haven't used anything other than an mac since we switched from dial up - sorry I couldn't be more help, but I know nothing about computers, just that macs have worked really well for me