Greg,

I agree with you totally there is no substitute for the laptop. For the convention last year I bought Dell Inspiron 9000 with my configurations which I loaded up cost me a good fortune - $3400. My experience was not bad and not so very good either, finding a spot to put it besides my lap was hard enough especially on the dealers table with other people looking at the albums and chips.

It think it is just a matter of organizing them for easy accessability - i.e., USA by State, foreign chips by countries, fractional $.25 or $.50, Grand Opening and 3 more areas of specialty. Most wanted are also organized along similar categories. I will probably have a little difficulty when I include my other casino collectibles and Murano glass clowns and other knick knacks.

My experience with my music I can easily find individual song and scroll along. So even assuming that I have 25,000 chips and collectibles which I don't have that many - I still think that the iPod will be so handy compared to Palm computer that I saw others were using.

Just my thoughts and I thank you for your input.

Leonidas