I'll switch to a laptop when laptops come with ergonomic keyboards, 1 TB of
that's you... and every other geek, and power user but that is not representative of 99 percent of the market. The telling moment will come when industry and government stop buying desktops in favor of laptops. And I think that will happen a lot faster then we think, not for PC reasons, but for power cost reasons. Laptops are great at using every amp to it's fullest.
I am in Southern Cal where electricity isn't cheap. In order run either my dual 3.6 Xeon workstation or my P4 3.4 24/7 costs around 40-60 dollars a month each.Just leaving them on throws me into a penalty Kwhr cost for exceeding my residential allotment! My old latitude 233MMX which functions as a print server, FTP server, and long term storage and is on 24/7 costs pennies a day.
