MacBook Pro
The core of my new workstation is my 17″ MacBook Pro, (Later 2009 edition) When I purchased this, decided that I’d go all in an had the processor upgraded to 3.0Ghz, and got the 512Gb Hard drive. I left the ram on the default 4GB.
Currently my Mac has iLife 11, iWork 09, Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection CS4 amongst it’s software list.
All in all this machine has proven to be well worth the money so far. In 5 years time, I’ll know for sure, but I get the feeling that this machine won’t age like my old Sony Vaio laptop has.