OK, It's been 1 month since I bought the Macbook Pro 17 with 2 gigs of ram. I STILL LOVE IT. Simply the best laptop I have ever owned bar none.
The Only issue I had with it was a slow DNS lookup while using it via wireless to my router, manually entering in a DNS of 4.2.2.2 solved that issue.
The driver updates, and other automatic updates are painless. The operatin system is stable and the laptop is fast as hell. PLUS battery life is outstanding. I have found no reason to install bootcamp and run XP as everything I need for work already runs on OSX. If I feel like playing Battlefield with it online, might be the only reason I install XP, but this is a work machine, I have pleantly of other computer laying around for games. (Not that I ahve any time for games with the new baby etc...)
So, 2 thumbs up for a great product, BUT beware of machines built in the first 22 weeks of production, you can tell by the serial number, from reading Apple and other forums, there seems to have been a few hardware issues that caused HEAT, battery damage and a loud whine... No issue with my later book, and Apple is fixing the issue on the other machines from the words of those that have them.