Good one. Q 950s may be massive in your lap during a trans-Atlantic flight, but they are damned fine machines on the floor, as long as they are not expected to perform like a G5 on heat.

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I'd be surprised if you could even get one onto the plane.

For the record, here's some food for thought: in the second edition of Macs for Dummies, David Pogue states that since the PowerBooks are called "laptops", Quadras should be called "floortops", since "some of them are so huge and powerful looking you're supposed to keep them under your desk".