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For what purposes do you mostly use a laptop?

30 Nov 2009 to 7 Dec 2009 Laptop, notebook, netbook? Or do you actually manage to occasionally disconnect?

Text entry answers for sorted by frequency of occurrance.

(4) CListCtrl
(2) remote desktop
(1) Remote Desktop Client
(1) Remote desktop for unit testing
(1) sdsdfsdf
(1) Software Demos - Win and OSX (MacBook Pro)
(1) The lack of a numeric entry pad and usable pointing device makes a laptop more trouble to use than it's worth.
(1) Trolling
(1) Typing my thoughts whilst in the bathtub.
(1) When away from my desktop
(1) Working from bed
(1) Working from home
(1) All of the above.
(1) As a hammer when I need to hang up frames for my paintings.
(1) As usual, missing the obvious choices... like when working outside the office, or going at the coffee shop without actually travelling.
(1) client office visits for review, update and handoff
(1) Debug of code connected to customer's peripherals / robots I dont have at work (why new laptops do not have serial ports ?)
(1) Demos
(1) demos to customers
(1) Digitizing 35mm Negatives in the Comfort of My Living Room, Drinking Single Malts
(1) Don't have a laptop
(1) don't have laptop
(1) Don't own a laptop.
(1) everythinh a smartphone cannot be used for :)
(1) For demos
(1) for presentations on the client
(1) free source code
(1) I don't have a desktop; I use a laptop for everything.
(1) I don't have a laptop
(1) I favor my desktop for development purposes but generally do coding on my MBP from time to time.
(1) It keeps my wife from making me get off this one.
(1) java me
(1) Late Night In Bed
(1) Loads - I rarely disconnect!
(1) music production
(1) My extended family own laptops. I just fix them.
(1) No laptop
(1) Office work in general
(1) p0rn
(1) playing Scorched Earth.
(1) Presentations
(1) Presentations in meetings
(1) Programming, but just as a hobby
(1) Reading eBooks
(1) Recording Live Music
(1) Reference, Travel, Customer visit
(1) Remote access to my main machine at work
(1) Remote after-hours support