Originally Posted by kokonutz
if you want to watch DVD movies on a plane, that sort of defeats the purpose uneless you save the DVDs to your hard drive, which in all honesty is only really big enough to hold a couple DVDs at time.
You can compress DVD's with xvid or divx codec and store 10 or more movies in the space a couple of uncompressed DVDs would take. A DVD compressed to about 750 mb is very watchable on a notebook.
A 10.6" screen is too small for my taste.