I might be leaving my current job in next 6-9 months (I completely boared here) and going freelance.
So I have to make the right HARDWARE decision a decision that I don't regret. This has to see me through for the next 2 years minimum.
I am earning descent money... in the future I might not get this chance for a while.

Right now I have a 1.6 Ghz Athlon (2000XP I think) PC with 1 GB of RAM and Geforce Ti4600 128mb ram video card. Plus I am using Maya 4.5. I am thinking of buying Maya 5.

Now would you buy -
a) A new powerfull desktop.
b) Stick with the above machine as desktop and get a new powerfull workstion laptop (Dell M60).

As I travel 2-3 hours for my current job a laptop would be handy to use the time for learning... plus in 9 months when I leave I could use this laptop for making presentations to the clients. Will a 9+ months old laptop be still able to handle Maya 5+?
What should I do
What would you do?