Gentlemen! I applaud the excellent feedback you have given here. We are honored to have such knowledgable members and customers share their wisdom.
MTU now offers (as of today!) a new portable computer for $1,995 including Hoster. It has 80GB 7200rpm drives (120GB optional) that are fully mirrored. We can even pull the power on the main drive while playing and the song never skips a sample. This is the ultimate for backing up your imported tracks. It also has our 48x CDR drive that is CDG certified. It is not as simple to set up as a laptop, but the mirroring and faster drives versus 4200/5400rpm for laptops makes it worth considering.
You can see the specs at
http://www.mtu.com/basics/karaoke-portable-pc.htm. Sorry about the picture with no CDR drive showing... we just finished testing and approving. We'll try to get our own pictures next week.
