@lordjeff when I was traveling full-time, I went about ten years with only a laptop, so I gave it up for quite a while. But, I got tired of the laptops breaking (mostly keyboard) and being very difficult and expensive to work on. Finally I decided I wasn't going to keep doing that and turned the dinette in my motorhome into a permanent desk and built a desktop machine. That's the one I'm replacing. I can't buy an off the shelf pre built because they all suck, are loud, and cost too much.