Originally Posted by
y2k1jetta
Lugging around a 17" laptop on a plane? Why? That's some serious viewing space for a plane. Playing first person shooter games?
"Desktop replacement" laptops for some business travelers. I know quite a few folks who want to use the same computer at work as they do on the road, and that often means a clunkier, larger laptop.
For someone like me, I need to be able to do photographic processing while on the road, meaning I need a decently large screen (I have widescreen 16") with good brightness and accurate color representation with a large gamut (often not available on smaller laptops), and of course gobs of processing power. All of this of course requires electrical power, too: I run into issues if charging the battery and doing photo processing simultaneously, and often have to disable battery charging altogether.