"duplicating/syncing" desktop's software and settings on my notebook (for traveling)

I do computer-related work from home on my Mac Pro (desktop). When I travel, I generally copy all of the files I need to my iPod and then transfer them to my MacBook (notebook) as needed. This method of transferring works fine for documents, pictures, movies, etc, but is there any (easy-ish) way to duplicate or sync my desktop's software and settings onto my notebook?

There is .mac this is a syncing service you pay about £60 in the UK or for a years' subscription. This gives you an email address @mac.com, a certain amount of space on a server, known as you iDisk accessible on any mac, and syncing abilities between not only macs and macs, but PCs too I believe. Due to apple's pricing regime it's $99 over in the USA *sulk* I hate to bash apple but their pricing is just ridiculous, I paid £699 for my mac, $1500ish. I know it's probably all import duties but i mean REALLY PEOPLE XD

You can find it here You can actually try for 60 days before you buy with limited functionality (by which I mean you get less iDisk space but other than that it is basically the same).

I'd recommend it, it'll integrate perfectly with your macs and from what you say it's probably just what you're after.

Dave

.Mac is really a great tool. Here in Canada it's $109 CDN. To me it's worth every penny. It remembers all the stuff that takes a lot of effort to set (things like Preferences, Dock Icon settings, Bookmarks etc.)

But as far as I know, .Mac doesn't sync to PCs.

yeahhhh my bad xD you can't sync to PCs but you can access files from PCs via the .mac website

Dave