Just noticed you say there are no ports for connecting external displays but this pic shows what looks like a vga connector to the right of the battery?

Yup, indeed..

I was thinking about native DVI when writing that sentence. It's been a long, long time since I used VGA :)

Ah yes but still a lot of vga capable devices out there specially presentation projectors. :)

Slightly OT but I bought one of the Gateway 5056B desktop base units available from Tesco for the same price and was very pleasantly surprised by the quality and performance.

And it came in the famous cow coloured box! (Ah, the memories)

Seriously tempted by this one too