Apple PowerBook G4 (17-inch)

Pros: Light (as 17" laptops can get), Massive screen real estate, very stylish laptop, and very powerfull. Also comes with a whole bunch of powerfull programs.

Cons: Non that I can see at the moment, but I would recommend buying the Apple Care package, incase something goes wrong. (Via a user error, dropping, etc)

Summary: As many people think, "Apple is too expensive"; but apple is expensive for a reason, it's products and software suites give you great results. This could easliy replace that big, bulky Windows-XP computer you have in your family study currently, its whole host of features, leaving not much to be desired.

Also, the case, and screen, are so beautiful, you would think it was a piece of modern art, and not a high-end desktop replacement! The feature with the battery I think is also quite cool, and funky; if your battery is running low, just close the screen, which puts the computer in sleep mode, and then take out the current battery, (the computer will keep whatever is in it's ram for 3 minutes, enough time to change a battery) and just slip in the new battery, and easliy and quickly get back to where you were.

Pure bliss.