What do you enjoy doing most on your portable laptop?  The main reason I ask is because the size and strength of the laptop directly affect what you can do on your laptop, and how quality it is.  Trying to emulate a Playstation 2 on an ultra-portable laptop, for example, is going to be met with little more than tears.  Conversely, the same computer might be just right for blogging poolside with a margarita in hand – a much more rewarding experience.  So what do you use it for?

Do you use it mainly as a web browser/ e-mail client combo?  Or is your system optimized to the point where you can game effectively on it?  Is it a tablet, so you can take down notes on it?  Or is your laptop one of those hulking giants – the ones which require cooling stands and which way several pounds (as I sometimes call them, portable desktops)?  Do you use it for business like stock quotes or for watching hulu during work?

For me, one laptop is devoted mainly as a media machine – it has my music and videos, and is also usually hooked to a printer.  I have it primarily as my library – but it’s also been a great backup when my other laptop has crashed.  The other laptop has a touchscreen, so I use it as a note taking machine.  It’s also got all my bookmarks and email accounts, and as such I use it for my daily web surfing needs.  It’s a little weak for computer games, but still useful so long as I dumb down the graphics settings.  And of course I use it for word processing and blogging – it works well, but I’m still considering getting an even smaller machine for blogging alone.

So how do you do it?