Ah yes indeed, my laptop has a HDMI output so i don't know if a adaptor for HDMI to TV-out would work better, and i'm sure there would be some way of setting it to position automatically. Secondly, if I was to not use my laptop and go for the alternate (netbook) most come with SSD's anyway these days, but for the money (around 500) might aswell build a system like yours from scratch if im not mistaken, and as for the power issue I presume it would work better with a desktop sort of deal going into sleep mode, but does the sleep mode work correctly when the power is cut the way it is?