[Lancashire Lad]

If "mini" is your real priority, I would definitely have a look at the Advent 4211

This ultraportable laptop has a 10.1 inch screen, 1gig ram, Wi-fi & Bluetooth, comes with an 80 gig hard drive and windows xp home SP3 (Also has microsoft works etc. pre-loaded).

It has topped the ultraportable chart in PC Advisor magazine for several months now, despite strong opposition from recent machines from Hewlett Packard, Acer, & Asus etc.

A friend of mine bought one of these about two months ago and rates it highly. He doesn't do very intensive multi-photo manipulation, but uses Paintshop Pro, (and an enormous amount of music editing) without any problem.

It sells for £279.00, and is Advent badged, but is exactly the same machine as the MSI Wind, which sells for £329.00.

Just found a revue of the machine at " TINYURL.COM/60LAFQ "

Regards
Mike.

EDIT - Just one thing to bear in mind with all these ultraportables - they don't have inbuilt CD/DVD Drives, so you would need a remote drive to be able to load your software etc.