PSD or Laptop

With the cost of the better PSD's reaching the cost of a cheap laptop I'm looking for the pros and cons of just getting a cheap laptop for my portable storage. Besides the obvious screen size vs portability issue, is there anything else that I'm missing?

Perhaps, battery life of both units, more practical uses for a laptop, and price. I guess it depends what you want. Last week, I saw a PSD that was $80 for 60gb after rebate. So it can get really cheap, or very $$$.

I am looking at both solutions too. Some deciding factors for me wil be:

PSD Pros
-size & weight
-battery life (in most cases)
-cost (though the nice new ones are pricey)

Notebook Pros
-Way more uses - don't think I need to list them all
-Can to PP with them, even if it is just to check a few things out
-Burn DVD's on the spot for people

I think it comes down to whether your preference is size and ultraportability or whether you would like to do more with the files (and other things).

With the low cost of CF cards now, and to look at things from a storage only POV, just having 10-20 GB of cards gives you great storage and is extremely portable, even compared to a PSD.

I know, choice, choices, choices.

I am 90% sure my purchase will be a notebook. I am looking at a IBM/Leveno ThinkPad T60 with a 15" UXGA (1600x1200) IPS/FlexView Screen, 2 GB of RAM, 2G processor. Much, much more expensive but it will work great for PP and I could use it for business purposes too.

The problem with a low cost laptop is the weight. My wife has a cheap(ish) dell laptop and I wouldn't carry it around. I'm not sure I'd carry my ultra-portable Sony VAIO unless there was a pressing reason. If you don't generally need the computing power, stick to a PSD.

my 2 pence worth

jim

Depends on the needs. We have both, but our laptop is a power laptop for using phtoshop and or autocad. so at 10lbs + huge power supply its not he most portable thing, so the p-2000 goes with up on vacations/photo trips.

you can download to a psd in the field on your belt while you are still shooting. a laptop requires more space time etc, but you can obviously do more with one.