Originally Posted by reinmedia
I need the machine for my media needs, but if I were in your shoes I would probably go for a compact machine such as the
Sony Vaio TX Series . It has an 11in screen and is extremely small but powerfull. I have a couple friends who have this machine and love it for travel.
I just bought one, in a fit of wild abandon. It's amazingly cute. It's also surprisingly loaded, for such a small machine - DVD-R drive, 80GB hard drive, 512MB RAM, WinXP Pro. 80% keyboard that takes a little getting used to but is quite usable. My only real problem with it is that I'm addicted to the IBM TrackPoint and don't really know how to use a touchpad, but I'll figure that out.
Now I just have to find a teeny-tiny laptop sleeve to carry it in.