I could put a second exterior monitor on the laptop, but it would have to be on the small port. The work around for the HDD that you lack with a laptop is to get an external hard drive. I had to add one so I could use Dropbox. The small screen size of the laptop is my biggest complaint, for me it is just too small. In my main office I have a 27" and 32" monitor and as a third it is hooked to a 50" TV and at times, I work off all three. For photography though I prefer the tower and I have a 27" BENQ.

I will say the ASUS ROD Zephyrus from the moment I push the power button until it is loaded is just seconds. It is blazing fast. The only negative is that when I first started it new, there was something wrong with the video card. I had to reload it and reset everything once to get it to work correctly.