Personally I want a computer that makes zero noise.
I don't get why anyone other then high end video or something like that still buys a tower. When I'm home I plug my laptop into a large LCD, keyboard, and mouse, so it works and feels just like a tower.
Before this year is out going to replace my old 17" Powerbook with a
17" Macbook Pro. Rumor has it that a newer design is due very soon so I've been waiting a bit but either way I need to replace this aging laptop that I'm on now.
Besides being much faster then the laptop I'm using now the new Apple laptops use an Intel chip so I can run Windows programs, like IE for testing my websites, right inside the Mac OS using at full speed using
Parallels.