Windows 7

[BP-Revo]

Based on what you do, an iPad would be great.

How can you call a 17.3" laptop "not huge" !?

Mine is a 17" as well (Dell XPS M1730) and I think it's huge (I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, I knew how big it was when I bought it and I like that it's huge).

But I'll agree, battery life sucks. I have 2 Video Cards + a Physics card, 2 HD's, backlit full-size keyboard w/ numpad, a secondary LCD that displays crap like time and date, ram/cpu usage, news, what song I'm playing, and a bunch of ambient effect lights.

Just surfing the web with Wifi with screen at full brightness, I get 45 minutes. Turning the screen to it's dimmest setting and turning off all the lights and keyboard backlight, I get an extra 5 minutes...

I've gotten as little as 35 minutes of battery before off a full charge...