Can anyone recommend a great laptop that can handle a full 2 hour PD/GEM show? I have 50-100 gemhead events in my current show that get triggered sequentially - i've been using a Gateway desktop computer with an AMD Phenom 8450 Triple Core 2.1 GHz processor running Vista 64 (yuck) with an nVidia GeForce GTX 260 graphics card, but it looks like the airline industry is not friendly to fliers with oversized computer cases!

The Alienware gaming rigs are priced so far beyond reasonable it's a intergalactic joke (but if that's what it takes...gulp...) I'm currently eyeing the Dell Precision M6800 - i'd love to hear your hardware recommendations to achieve the smoothest particle and 3D renderings in an airplane-friendly transporatable CPU!