My wife has a MacBookPro and it is a good machine. However very dissatisfied with Parallels (at least the early verion we had) and I removed it.
I imagine their software has improved significantly as all new software go through this phase, but their support was also atrocious and do not expect that to improve much. I suspect Apple had good reason not to support it.
I have been looking at the Lenovo (IBM) T61 ThinkPad. It seems to be of equal performance, perhaps more rugged with same weight and much better price.
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