I am contemplating to give up on laptops at all. I have monitors in 3 different rooms in my house; Obviously I have a monitor in the office, and I have access to monitor in the local library. So, I almost always use a external monitor. I don’t really need a laptop; I need a portable computer, keyboard and a mouse, all fit in my backpack. There are large selections of small form factor PCs out there.
The downside is that they are not powered in my backpack. However, all I use are browsers and terminals these days, and they have good support to save sessions across boot. So I don’t see it is a big problem.
