I tried a couple laptops and couldn't get them to work for me of course I didn't persue it very much either. I bought two computers for my shop, both came with Windows 98. Both together with monitors and keyboards cost about $75.00. They are Pentium 133 mhz which may not be enough power for what you want but for me, they are great. Bought one on e-bay and one at a local pawn shop. Bought extra 2gig hard drives for each for another $20 total. Both have CDROM drives for transferring large files (Don't have a network). I don't know your situation but this setup works good for me. I do all my drawing and programming on my PC in the house where the airconditioner is. Only other thing I did after setting them up was buy a couple color 9" monitors so they wouldn't take up so much room. The CPU and my power supply act as stands for the monitors. If they blow up I haven't lost much, always keep backup of my programs on the PC in the house.
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