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Dennis wrote: > taken a lateral instead of going the distance with the 560. Compaq and > Digital are playing catch up, and made pretty good units as well. I assume that your omission of the smallest subnote - the HP - was accidental. > price of laptops up and their availability down. Laptops will NEVER > approach the power or functionality of a desktop. If you are on a limited I disagree. One of my laptops, A P133 Micron, is my main machine for statistical analysis, and is every bit as fast as the P133 desktop I occasionally use. I agree that today's laptops are slower than today's desktops, but they are as fast as last night's desktops. > I can't begin to tell you all how many people I see on the train playing > freaking Solitare for their ride. I don't see anything wrong with this. If you have to travel from A to B, are bored, and happen to have a computer with you, why *not* use it to play games? How is this different from doing the crossword in the paper? > engineering analysis applettes, but for the most part my 'tools' are > spreadsheets and Mathematica workbooks on the go. I don't use Mathematica much because it is so slow (even on my Sparc!), but I regularly use Maple and S+ on my laptops for serious work. The advantage of keeping a project on the laptop is that you don't have to keep transferring files from one platform to another as you move from home to office to meeting. Incidentally, while you and I might have several machines, for many people (especially college undergraduates) the laptop will be the only machine, and it is entirely reasonable that they try to make them run as fast as they can - hence this thread. - David