MacBook

Thinking about buying a MacBook and I'm looking at J&R as well as Amazon. They both have free shipping and are the same prices, but Amazon has a $100 rebate, while JR won't charge sales tax, and has a 2% discount via FatWallet. The rebate is great, but my wife already got a Mac with that, so they may not let us get a second one. Most rebates are limited to one per household.

I'll probably go with the 1.83Ghz core duo for $1099, then upgrade the memory and hard drive for better performance. I'm mostly concerned with responsiveness.

I actually paid $1099 to Apple for a refurbished 2.0G chip, with superdrive. I then paid approx. $370 for 2G ram and a faster HD from newegg.com. I'm really psyched about this machine, its going to be so awesome having Mac OS X, Windows XP Pro, and Ubuntu all on the same machine. I'm leaning towards bootcamp instead of Parallels because its cheaper and supposedly less buggy. Though VM Ware would be nice if it exists.

Now, what to do with the extra hard drive and RAM?