Hooking up the MBP to the LED ACD is not a pain at all not much to connect really, it's the USB hubs, printer, external HDD and iPhone/iPod that gets annoying. However if you plan on connecting your MBP to a TV and to watch movies off of it through PLEX or Boxee, I would definitely recommend getting a desktop mac (mac mini is perfect). I could not imagine transferring the my MBP from external monitor to TV all the time with all the cables.