I have currently doing everything on my laptop with Vista which I purchased in Japan in January 2008, having left behind a desktop with Win98 (Dell). My laptop is a Japanese machine by Hitachi and operates on Japanese Vista, but I can load an English or German characters set (for that matter it can be French or other languages, but the laptop keyboard is Japanese with the English alphabet.)

I am anticipating the arrival of my mostly slide film I had sent by air from the United States, and I should start kranking up my scanning activities. I also need to travel and this laptop is too heavy if I am to take my photo equipment.

I would like those of you who have all three or at least two of the three to share how they are doing with file transfer and such.

My rented apartment came with a computer desk, so I have room for a desktop. I also have a writing desk in my bedroom which I also inherited from the previous tenants. I also can move from my kitchen with a dining area where there is a table to the bedroom to the living room where there is a computer desk. Since I have a USB mobile internet connection, I can easily move from room to room with my laptop, but for scanning films into computer and traveling light, this laptop is too heavy, but not enough capacity for the desktop-type work.