Clone computers. Any reason why not?

Hi
I have an Intel Mini and I am going to buy a MacBook for travelling. Is there any reason why I could not just copy my Mini onto the MacBooks drive? Would it still be possible to use them together on a local network, given that their names etc would be identical?
Cheers!
Inte Mini, Core 2 Duo 2.16, 7200 HD   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Copying the whole drive is a bit like sandblasting a cracker. Obliterating the macbook harddrive like that will take ages, and presumably copying data back would involve copying the macbook back to the mac mini? This would mean that you could never use them at the same time because you would have you manually fudge the changes. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. So, no technical reason it can't be done, but lots of practical ones.
A much better way would be to get some synchronisation software (Deja Vu, Chronosync, rsyncX, or whatever) and have a 'shared' section on each drive that you can sync back and forth. Another option (and one I have implemented) is to use a Subversion repository. Check out the repository to the mini and the macbook, and you can easily resolve conflicts and take it on the move.

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