Everyone Stop! I think we are being messed with! I just found this picture of the OP with his "laptop".

Finally, the ultimate ultra-portable system.

But he still missing electricity generator on wheels:)

wireless power is the future! :)

A couple of massive cable coils will sort that out.

Lenovo. good brand so far (though I'll see in a couple of years).

Only thing that bothered me with them so far is that they were too cheap to send me a recovery medium with the computer. Rather, they let you do a one-time recovery medium creation from a special partition. Better hope you don't screw it up.

I think they'd find someone looking at porn or reading some radical fundamentalist website more disturbing.

At this point, movies have more than caught up with games in terms of violent material.

Yeah, my thought is the same.

If the integrated peripherals of a laptop are not what you'd like for your home, you can always supplement them with externals to get more of a "desktop" experience.

LSL on the laptop! Yeah baby!

Hardly any laptop vendors seem to give you a separate recovery medium, but want you to create it yourself.

I don't get though why you'd be allowed to create the recovery medium only once. What is that supposed to prevent? Piracy? Won't the recovered Windows require online authentication anyway?

On my ASUS laptop, I don't think there was a limitation how many times you can create the recovery medium. But for several reasons (like getting rid of the preloaded ASUS crap, and that the recovery option didn't necessarily always work that well), I re-installed the whole Windows 7 by using the installation media downloaded from MS website, and using my laptop's activation code. That way I got a pristine Windows 7 installation, and I made a "recovery media" of it by using the common Windows 7 recovery tools, not ASUS tools.

On the HP Win8 laptop I bought later, there was the same odd limitation of only one shot of creating the recovery media. As it doesn't have an internal DVD drive, I had to buy a 32GB USB memory stick just for this purpose (the recovery media size is 22GB). I hope I don't lose it or break it. I wonder if MS offers a downloadable Win8 installation media, like they do for Windows 7?

I do believe you do not have to enter your activation codes for the recovery media created by the OEM. They are usually tied to the device so they can't be installed on other computers. Not exactly sure why they only let you create it once.
As far as the downloadable Windows 8, Technet has a downloadable version. I would think you would be able to purchase a downloadable copy as well.

that is a lot of faith in duck tape!

as well as faith in a surge protector.

Hey, they use it on US Navy/Air Force Fighter jets.

What would have been really cool, is if he had Crysis or something on the screen.

im REALLY trying to not write crysis by hand in pain with a mouse and upload it...stupid urge!