I plan to get a higher-end laptop in the near future, it all depends on how well things go at UPS Friday and if I get the job there. (I was recently told that ASUS only built this laptop of mine with the bare minimum needed to just barely hold Windows 7 and not much else although Win7 in the default OS they put on this). But my long term project is to turn that tower into a gaming one. I merely want to hook it up to this laptop so I can see what is on the hard drive and what I will need to work on to improve it for gaming. If I could modify a laptop the same way that I can a tower, I would. I typically despise all the wires and cables needed for a desktop and prefer the maneuverability of laptops. I wish I could somehow combine the two, but doesn't seem possible at the moment.