Most of us were excited when Dell leaked the Mini 9, and we saw pictures of it. When it was announced, most of us yawned, because of the SSD only option.

Take a look at the Lenovo S10, the version with the 160G hard drive. It has an express card slot, so you can add whatever you want to add. Also, the memory and hard drives are user accessable through a panel on the bottom.

The only downside to the S10 is that the Fn and Cntrl keys are swapped from their normal location, and there's no software method to change that, since the Fn key is handled by the keyboard hw. My workaround is to change Caps Lock to Control using the windows registry method. Other than that one thing, it's great for what it is. (I'm pretty sure that all Lenovo keyboards have that same thing, so it isn't just an S10 issue.)

-David