Bob,

Our Company uses Dell Laptops exclusively, I have a Latitude Cpx, 1.2mhz with 20gb, 512mb RAM and love it. Almost the equivalent to the consumer version you are buying. They are sweet machines and I think you can't go wrong with a "Dude, it's a Dell!"

The Docking stations are pretty standard... I would certainly get one if you are planning to use one of those little multiplexor things so you can use one monitor-keyboard-mouse for each system you are running.
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