a mobile monitor to add to the laptop?

http://www.maxivista.com/

there may be vista compatibility issues, but they may have resolved that by now.

I have used this with XP, and it works quite well

 

nice.....

both solution seems nice!

 

thanks borsaci. that might be very useful since i often travel with two laptops. now i can put them both to use simultaneously. i use only xp too.