I don't know about others here, but when utilizing a laptop in my shows in the past, it tended to draw interest away from my performance, and instead the audience's interest in what was going on in behind the laptop screen. This was particularly the case when I was playing an acoustic grand piano (piano bar lounge) and running custom backup sequences or when just using the laptop to view lyrics. The audience always appeared enamoured by the technology and less appreciative about the music, thinking that I was somehow (cheating?) as I was relying on the laptop to make me sound good, even though that of course wasn't always the case at all. Perhaps audiences have changed over the last few years, or that certain audience's have higher traditional musicianship expectations of us than others. I don't know, but this is one of the reasons I've been relunctant to the idea of adding a laptop to my act again. For some reason, because the arranger keyboard has all it's computer technology features built right in to the keyboard itself, this doesn't create the problems I had using a laptop (even just for lyrics) when doing an acoustic keyboard gig. Just my opinion based on my own personal gigging experience of course. - Scott