ha, ah card reader, the true sign of an obsolete windows machine…
why would you want a 17” by the way ? that’s not a laptop but a foldable desktop, the macbook pro 15” for the same price has a 8600 gtm with 512 and a 2.5 C2D processor, just 2GB of RAM (but you don’t need that much on a mac than on windows) and the rest of the specs are the same (disk and wireless), the only thing it doesn’t have out of the box is an E Sata connector, but hey, you can get an expresscard connector for that
but let’s not get this into a “my notebooks better” discussion, you got you chat app and you’re getting a mac as a next machine, done..
by the way, ‘m working on a macbook pro as well, just a month old, all nice and new, and i know it’ll stay that way for a few years (untill i sell it in 2 years for a better one, not that i’d need to, but i like to keep it new)