When I started freelancing, I bought an IBM Thinkpad i series laptop with the DVD drive. Beautiful machine, even if it does run Windows. I didn’t think I would have much use for the DVD capability, since I don’t travel a lot, and I already have a decent setup to watch DVDs the normal way. But I’m going to be gone most of next week to a business camp for high school kids, staying in an empty apartment without so much as a TV. So I connected the laptop to some small computer speakers I had and fired up “Toy Story 2” just to test the old boy out.
I can’t tell you how cool it is to watch the Toy Story 2 outtakes on a laptop screen. I’m looking forward to this week.