He brought in his laptop, and the box containing whatever giagantic Apple monitor he had, and proceeded to hook it up.
When barista came by bussing the tables, she told him to put it away. He was completely incredulous, but relented.
Hmm. I have a terrible idea.
After a bit of digging, the XPS M2010 20" entertainment 'laptop' released in 2006.
No, I'm not taking a vacation. Quite the opposite, in fact.
I'm getting a hotel room in a state where I don't know anyone, so I can do a bunch of research with no distractions.
I bought a new computer specifically for this purpose - A Dolch portable pentium-II system. The significant thing is that it has full length PCI slots, so I was able to put an Evans & Sutherland OpenGL accelerator in it (not enough room for an intergraph Realizm, though), and still drive the internal LCD screen. It works out pretty well, but I'm sure there will be conventional laptops with good 3D acceleration available later this year.
This will be an interesting experiment for me. I have always wondered how much of my time that isn't at peak productivity is a necessary rest break, and how much of it is just wasted.
https://youtu.be/-5zeJyQ31rM?t=113 (at 1:52, with bonus Bill Gates)