the main appeal of a portable system is that you are not restricted to playing it in one specific place...you may have one spot in your house where it plays fine...but what if you were on an airplane? camping?

Stu said it perfectly.

I play it often in a train. And in University [:sneaky:] and in a bunch of other places! You just gotta find the right way to hold the thing.

But of course, a light would be nice SOME times...

Looks nice... but I dunno if It's worth the $$$

I'll get one. Most likely, I like it. But does it have a backlit screen option?

Frontlit. The only lights are in the edges of the screen.

Yeh, you have the option of turning the the front light off.

Sweet

and it lasts 10 hours with the lights on and 18 off.