Just saw some nice notebooks on the weekend, thought I’d pass on the info. They are damn expensive $2000.00+ in Canada (though I paid more for my IBM many moons ago)but they seem pretty well built.
The HP Envy series is sleek and sexy, comes chocked full of ram, 64Bit Win7, average but not huge 7200 RPM HD’s but they are also pretty slender. I was playing with one at Future Shop the other day and it was a pretty comfortable and cool looking unit indeed. And the audio features got me going pretty good too, nice and fast for working with midi and synth mixing. Haven’t looked into video rendering but it seems that it would have little issues there either.
http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/envy/index.html