Laptops sort of grow on you. I fought getting one for a long time at work and then was forced to update to one and found I liked the flexibility. Suddenly, if I wasn't feeling well, I could call in and work from home. When I started my relationship with my now wife, I could take my work with me on the "working vacations" and it allowed us to be together a lot more often than we otherwise could have.
And then, since the company had a sort of "don't ask, don't tell-- as long as it isn't porn or illegal" policy, I used it for things like taking files for either DMing or playing Dungeons and Dragons with me, I could take notes on it, I had my stories and poems on thumb drives that I could then push in and work on at a moment's notice.
Right now, I'm sitting in the office typing this and some other things, watching MNF on the small TV, and wishing my wife's laptop (which she obviously has with her during her conference in FL) was still here so I could be doing these out in the front room or, better yet, in bed.
I think I may need to look into getting a laptop of my own as either a replacement for this desktop or in addition to it sometime in the future (after a job is secured and our moving-related debts are surmounted). If I replace my desktop, I might go with a "mobile desktop" system, as I will still want to play my games on the new PC. However, laptops have closed the gap so much with the new dual- and quad-core processors and tons of memory that I may not need to go that route necessarily (it used to be, if you were a gamer, you either got the highest-end notebook or a mobile desktop, but that has changed in the last few years).
Secondarily, I'm wondering if something like the Asus EEE might suffice for my basic needs. I used one briefly when my mom was here (she got one for her trip from PA to here), and, if I can install something like OpenOffice on it okay, it might do enough to help me with my mobile blogging, DnD, and writing desires. I'd probably have to get the upper end of that type of machine though to run a program like Word or OpenOffice, or Adobe.
Anyway, something to think about for the (near) future.
Of course, there is the other side of things:
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