If you buy a laptop, buy one with everything you want sinse except for cards for networks, wireles cards, and modems you can't upgrade them. To answer another question on laptops, You may leave them running as long as you'd leave a desktop running as long as they're plugged in. -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx