People have commented on my Asus UL80vt as being very similar to the mac keyboard / touchpad layout, it does however have a large plastic bar that is supposed to act as left and right click, however in practice this is just ignored for the multitouch clicks that are parcelled into the touchpad.
thanks for the tip. looks like a great choice. My MacBook Air is toast...that's what happens when you solder the RAM onto the mobo...$900 repair fee, ouch...I'd rather just buy a new laptop.
If you do end up going this route, and you're not a windows user; if you want the nvidia card to work in linux you must set SATA mode in bios to legacy, yes, I know that makes no sense but there you go.
