> Agreed! The cramped screen space (I run dual vid cards in sli with 4 > monitors with development apps spread all over them!), sluggish response > (open what I have running on my work station and any laptop goes into > crawl mode), heat (if you really run it in your lap as the name infers) > and that just touches on the very start of my list. Yes, I have few > laptops and use them when I 'need' to and one often times goes with me > when I leave my office (but my phone is rapidly replacing that need > unless I'm going for days)... but why on earth would I consider using > only a laptop? Well, if I was always mobile, but I'm not. Maybe if I > didn't need to run any development systems... Eclipse on a laptop > certainly works, but is sluggish vs. a workstation. Open Dreamweaver, > Photoshop, Eclipse, three web browsers a secure shell or few, email, IM, > and then need to open a Word attachment and most laptops chug to worst > than a crawl. And the funny thing, from my perspective at least, is that I'm sitting beside a laptop that routinely has several VMware VM's running (XP & Server 2008r2), several line of business applications open, and has dreamweaver *and* gimp running in the background. :) All this on a two year old i3 w/ 6GB RAM. Set me back around $900. Larger screen? VGA or HDMI outputs. ;-) Nothing quite beats working on a 55" HDTV in your living room, especially when I have time for STO. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie