I love my 17". It's my third 17" Mac laptop (the first one having been a PowerBook, so you can see I've been using them for a while), and I'm very glad I picke

I love my 17". It's my third 17" Mac laptop (the first one having been a PowerBook, so you can see I've been using them for a while), and I'm very glad I picked up a new one last year. Yes, it's a bit large at times, but against that, it has plenty of screen space for development work -- I can pull it out anywhere and work as effectively as I would at home. Granted, programming is the only task for which I need this much screen room. Otherwise the 15" would be fine. I'm also glad it has the optical drive, which I still use on occasion. For the 15", I can see the sense of leaving out the optical, but the 17" should be a desktop replacement, seems to me.