It was only a matter of time before laptops became something more than a portable computer. The ASUS Sideshow Notebook brings the standard lightweight laptop into realms once reserved for PDAs, Smartphones, and MP3 players. The laptop itself is nothing new, but the separately-powered secondary display on the outside lid of the laptop is a stroke of genius, as any harried business traveler will confirm. How many times have you wished for a way to retrieve that one important email or look up that certain street address, but not had the time/space/patience to open and boot up your laptop? Sideshow has a limited set of functionalities at this time, but the laptop paradigm has been altered and the gates to all sorts of future applications opened. Let’s take a moment to drool over this development and then watch what the market brings in the coming months. I’m no technology reviewer, just a casual market observer. Its far better that we let someone with a good eye for the technical specifications do the dirty work.