That's a shame dude, I would hate having a laptop all the time, I'm a desktop guy! I have to have my sub when im listening to music and when im on the go my Sennheiser CX-300's do a great job. I hope your computer troubles end, I'm hoping mine will when I get my new hard drive. Going to reinstall vista and partition Win7 on a 250gb drive and keep my 320 gb free for music and what not. But I would go for a lappy if it was a Mac book pro 17" with a C2D like 2.8GHZ and about 4gb of ram and a decent size hard drive.