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Merch, Aside from the oldie topics: About liberettos; Things have happened and many guys have upgraded and hacked their liberettos successfully. Now has 1gb or more (requires slim 2.5" hd's in there) and loads of ram like 32mb or more not world-jerky, hd killer 8mb and o/c'ed them to 100mhz and they have gotten linux in 'em successfully as well. IBM did stopped producing those PC110's, 486 machines I think. Boo. :( There's another lightweights weight such as aero, T100X, TI2000 (sweet huge screen but battery life is joke and brain-dead 286). I think that today's is Libertto's so popular as Aero's used to be similar to Bug car in 70's. :) Unrealated to this, main issue especially for linux user is specific video chipset, Negomagic, found in many current and in production notebooks are UNSUPPORTED because that stupid company won't help them with info even offered payment. Also the I20 as well. Hint: remember Diamond. Back to oldie stuff now... And, hey, all portable *ARE* bulky anyway even my Luddite is very thick and heavy. Even the T1000 early one is clusmy too. My opinion is that IBM 5100 is the winner for most heaviest and unprotected portable. Even modern smallest desktops with built-in UPS measured in minutes and a small self-powered monitor is stil far Snip about moaning about bulkiness. This is original configurations since then, Toshiba are now selling updated configurations with more stuff in them. snip about handles.. I wouldn't have any handles on anyway. Reasonably good idea this way so users are forced to hold it carefully and stuff their portables into padded bags/cases. Handles invites accidents and some swing around too easily, bang into other objects that could crack/break screens and hard drives like that, handles breaks, *CRASH!* Snip! > See ya, > Roger "Merch" Merchberger > -- > Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed, > Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* > zmerch(a)northernway.net | be your first career choice. Take care eveybody then! Jason D.