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According to the article itself, some CDs stand up well to prolonged high light exposure. The best is silver + gold coating with a phthalocyanine dye. According to http://www.silverace.com/dottyspotty/issue12.html, the only disc like this is Kodak's Ultima Silver+Gold CD-R. Other discs that do very well use the phthalocyanine dye. According to Roxio.com, the "phthalocyanine dye is pale green, appearing yellow-green on a gold-backed disc."

Also, keep your discs in the dark at controlled temp and humidity if possible.

It's a tad bigger, but perhaps you're thinking of a Toshiba Libretto? There were a few models out by 1998 with Pentium processors that should have been able to handle Starcraft.

Get a toshiba libretto!

7.1" TFT screen, laptop hard drive (have a 40 giger in mine) and fits in your pocket...

http://www.silverace.com/libretto/librettocontent. html
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This baby is THE BEST tool I have for my in the field digital photography... 3x the display size of the camera LCD, and portable. Way better than any XDrive or other poirtable camera image storage devices.. and itll play mp3s, so its cheaper than an ipod ;)

Used, about 100$ for a Libretto 110! It'll be your favorite pda sized PC!

It really depends on what you want. If power is what you want, you might sacrifice battery life and portability. If you want portability, you may have to sacrifice power, or might have to pay a premium. Cost also factors in. Who wants to buy a computer that has as much power as their desktop at double the price, even if it is portable?

There are plenty of special designs in the notebook world that are made only for one purpose. There was a guy showing one at work the other day...it was an unbreakable laptop. He hurled it against the marble floor in the hall to test it...it wouldn't break....it blew my mind. Some of the subminis (Vaios and the latest Librettos) have digital cameras built right in... that's always a plus.

I use a Toshiba Libretto 70CT. It's possibly the smallest full-featured computer ever built; P120, 32Mb RAM, no 3D, no CDROM, no floppy, but dual-booting Linux and Windows on a 10GB HD. You can get one off eBay for about $300-$500 (of course, it's an older model; the new ones are far more powerful and cost $2500 last I checked). It's not powerful considering this day and age, but don't think of it as a small computer. Think of it as a big palmtop. ;)

As you can see, I favor portability. In addition, I am hooked for life on Toshiba because they use a standard laptop HD. You know, the kind that you can plug into an adapter to connect to your desktop's IDE cable if you so prefer. Other than that, the only computer-to-computer I/O is done through a cheap PCMCIA card.

Oh yeah, and all the chicks dig the Libretto because it's SOOOO CUTE! :)

A while back I replaced the 850 MB 8.5 mm drive in my Libretto with a 3.2 GB 9.5 mm drive. You have to take the case apart and remove a couple of little clear plastic spacers, then the 9.5 mm drive fits in just fine. Nowadays you can get 20 GB drives in this size. 850 MB was kind of cramped. But I have enough room on the 3.2 GB drive for both the Win95 that came with the box and a Linux installation as well.

I learned how to add a 9.5 mm drive through this excellent, illustrated page by Dr. Xin Feng. The link on the adorable Libretto page doesn't work, Dr. Feng moved his stuff.

Since you have a Libretto, another must-see page on his site is this one, which describes how to make an external battery pack for your laptop using real cheap lead-acid camcorder batteries which will run your Libretto in full-power mode for about four hours. With only $50 worth of batteries, I can use my Libretto all day long in the field.

I suppose this is kinda dumb and irrelevant, but if you ever get your laptop out and use it in a public place, have you noticed how so many of the ladies strolling by just love the Libretto? Weird, but repeatedly women have stopped and told me they think it's so cute! Maybe that's why that web page is titled adorable Libretto. Something worth thinking about, for you single guys; if I were still single I'd think I might take it down to the park, find a well-shaded park bench, and hack away...

Yours WDK - WKiernan@concentric.net

Who do you think make the 20G hard drive, toshiba of course. Go to the adorable Libretto page and check for installation of 20G hard drives.

Old subnotebook you say, 2 years has passed and nobody has come up with a smaller subnotebook compare to my libby110. Those Sony stuff are just fancy looking.

CY

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The best use is let people realize produces like Libretto 1100 is a much better design when we thought.


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