Laptops are practical because you can take them with you. However, laptops have a relatively small screen. If you work on a mobile computer, it quickly becomes annoying to constantly switch programs.

Nex Computer announces the launch of its NexPad, a portable monitor that can be attached to the top of a laptop screen as an additional monitor on the go. If you need a larger screen for your ...

Use a serial connection to communicate with the server, or just do it over the network. There is absolutely no way you can use your laptop display/keyboard/input device on another machine.

One could make a mini-itx computer, connect a battery to it like a UPS perhaps the size of a laptop battery.. But then for screen and keyboard, how hard would it be to connect a laptop to the mini-itx ...