I use two of those small tables (usually made of oak) you can get at almost any furniture store. The ones which are in a U shape, where part of it tucks under the sofa, the long part of it rises in the air and then the other side of the U forms a small table with right about the perfect height.
I use the first to hold my laptop, the second to hold anything else (drinks, papers, etc). I place them on opposite sides of my legs, both within easy reach.
It works perfectly, long as you don't need a full "desk" to hold your laptop, and you can leave the tables out for other uses, too.
I've got a Libretto CT50, with 32MB of RAM. I've modified it slightly, wired it up to use a IBM laptop battery, which gives me >3 hours battery life instead of an hour and a half. I also use a Motorola CDPD modem...wired up that one to run off of an external 9volt supply, too.
Both of 'em work great together...small (even with the batteries) and just big enough and powerful enough to be useful.
In fact, I used it last winter to run BeetleCam (http://damon.durandfamily.org/Beetle). Perfect for these kind of applications. Telnet and ssh is a bit slow, but it works very well enough. It's much better in burst applications.
I usually used it just to feed the data across to another webserver, instead of serving it directly off the unit. Latency and bandwidth, as I said before, are limited.
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I use two of those small tables (usually made of oak) you can get at almost any furniture store. The ones which are in a U shape, where part of it tucks under the sofa, the long part of it rises in the air and then the other side of the U forms a small table with right about the perfect height.
I use the first to hold my laptop, the second to hold anything else (drinks, papers, etc). I place them on opposite sides of my legs, both within easy reach.
It works perfectly, long as you don't need a full "desk" to hold your laptop, and you can leave the tables out for other uses, too.
Both of 'em work great together...small (even with the batteries) and just big enough and powerful enough to be useful.
In fact, I used it last winter to run BeetleCam (http://damon.durandfamily.org/Beetle). Perfect for these kind of applications. Telnet and ssh is a bit slow, but it works very well enough. It's much better in burst applications.
I usually used it just to feed the data across to another webserver, instead of serving it directly off the unit. Latency and bandwidth, as I said before, are limited.