I have a lot hate relationship with my laptop too (Score 1)

To offer a user's perspective. I hate my work provided laptop because it so slow... Having a laptop is fundamental to my job. I work for a technology department of a major bank so having a laptop is essential so that I can support the applications that I wrote out-of-hours. Unfortunately, the need to secure my laptop (because it could be potentially compromised because it goes outside the bank's immediate environment) means that all the security software installed on it makes it run very slow. My brand new Lenovo Thinkpad takes approximately 15 minutes to startup- unbelievable I know but in my frustration I timed it yesterday. Most technology people I know have asked that the bank allows us to use our own desktops at home - with the mandated mandated anti-virus, version checking software, et al. installed - but there is still a (perfectly understandable) reluctance to do this. Until then we'll stutter by. As an aside: I love the latest hardware dual core that Intel / AMD is providing - and to demonstrate how much the security software on my dual-core Thinkpad is slowing things down - 10 minutes into the boot up of my bank laptop I took out my Macbook Pro from my bag and launched all the applications in the Applications folder. The MBP won. (This is not intended to inflame any mac/windows wars, but merely to show the cost of securing the laptop had on performance)