well apple quality levels seem to be much much higher on the pro line of apple products, the powerbook has zero dead pixels, it has only had one little problem since i got it, and it was remedied very easily (the display’s power cable became a bit loose and caused the display to flicker a bit when moving back and forth).  the unit performs well, it does everything a work computer must very well, spotlight is really cool, despite the fact i don’t really use it much for anything other than program launching (guess it’s what i get for being organized).  the Powerbook even came with some great software, it came with omnigraffle (a nice graph and for me uml diagram drawing program), omnioutliner (a nice note taking program), and some other junk i deleted.  the backlit keyboard looks bad ass, although for me it’s not really all that useful, that’s all i’ve got for now, have fun and enjoy the break off school if you still have it (like me :D)