Right now I have an 18.4" laptop and I love it to death. The problem is that it's nearing the end of it's life. I've found over the last few years that I really don't need to travel with it so the replacement for it doesn't actually have to be a laptop.

The problem is that I don't have any convenient place in my house to put and office due to my wife having just given birth to our twin girls. The office became the nursery.

That said I do have a rack mounted server case that I can fill with whatever I want. It's within 15 feet of the couch where I spend the majority of my time with the girls when I'm home. Right now I've got my laptop on a lap board that normally sits either in my lap or on the ottoman. There isn't room for a mobile desk there.

Now to the question: Given bluetooth keyboard and mice along with WIDI/Miracast there's no reason I can't put something significant in that rack and just stream I/O to something that is about the same formfactor as my old laptop.

So thus the question: Is there a decent (1920x1080 , 18 ") monitor out there that is light enough to mount on a lapboard and use it like a laptop? The only 'mobile' monitors I've been able to find are USB driven not HDMI so i couldn't attach a Miracast dongle and they tend to be very small, poor resolutions, or massively expensive due to being milspec hardened.

... sometimes all three.

So does this product exist out there or am I dreaming of a nitch device that there's no market for?