hardly anyone has used the Laser picks Carolyn. Most stores probably are just getting em in. I would use them for really cold hard ice climbs like Murchison Falls in the rockies. The cobra pick is great for all around ice and mixed. I wouldn't use the laser for mixed unless I could afford to replace it. If you can find and afford it, get a pair of the Aermet picks. They used to cost $75 each, probably more now that they're discontinued. I got mine on the Dunham discount ( -i,e. the permaborrow).
I bet your hands are too small for the cobra. Get a pair of vipers. Most alpine ice climbing is either hard enough where you want a real ice tool, or ez enough where it isn't going to be that desperate. Yes, you may get more tired with a curved tool like the viper on lower angled ice, but unless you can afford two sets of tools, go with the tool that will perform on the hard shit, not the easy.
That being said, (i don't own one) I heard the Quark is the shiznit for vertical ice. If I could own two tools It'd be the cobras and the ergo-quarks ($$)