Bart - next time you are away for a week or two, bring a netbook with you. I love my netbook (I have an Acer) but it's the best piece of tech kit I've bought in years. I use it for e-mail, write documents, review presentations, watch movies, run remote desktop, I could go on. The keyboard is fine for typing a few paragraphs. My Aspire netbook has a decent-ish keyboard. The first Eee PCs had pretty rubbish keyboards, but the latest ones are fine for my fingers.

I take mine with me most places, I just got back from Hong Kong, it was great being able to take it with me rather than my laptop, it sits on an economy-class seat table just fine (even a Ryanair one) and has 6h of battery life.

If you're on the road all the time like me, a netbook is the best way to bring your home PC with you on the road. I've been running Ubuntu Netbook Remix for the last month and I'm very happy with it. It's a brilliant device for people like me who travel a lot and want a small but fully-functional machine (weighs about 1kg)