My preference would be to go back to a desktop machine. I still prefer the brighter screens they offer, and I get really cheesed off with the battery life of a laptop. I'll come back to laptops when the battery lasts all day, and not a measly couple of hours, and when the speakers are at least on a par with that of the PC laptop world. Make the move onto solid state hard drives. Are there any negative aspects to these kinds of drives? What's stopping them?