Aha..it begins to make sense.
Scenario: I have a widescreen laptop on my desk, hooked up to scanner/printer, mouse, external hard drive, etc.
During the evenings I transfer myself from my desk to the sofa to watch tv, but I like to take the laptop with me to keep an eye on the forums, and chat online to the good lady...so I have to disconnect everything in order to do so, and then move everything back at bedtime. A pain in the proverbial...
What I'm contemplating is buying a smaller laptop/netbook/notebook etc purely for the use as above, something around a 10" screen, maybe a touch bigger. Just to keep an eye on the AMS forum, MBM forum, Facebook, and 'er in Canada.
Any recommendations chaps? Not too expensive, I'm only a poor old pensioner nowadays...
Ta,
Rich