Re: Notebooks

["David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>]

I wrote:
>>Yet HP continued to use the small-footprint/small screen form factor in
>>their 600/800,
>>and now the Libretto is all the rage.  I'll bet that a 701 with a faster
>>processor, bigger HD, and
>>a pound shaved off the weight would sell well.


Paul asked:

>Hmmm, how would you take off that extra pound, besides a smaller battery,
and
>smaller screen?


Presumably the same way that HP does it (the 800 is only 3.5 pounds) and will
do it with their new 'Pedion' (Greek for 'dirt') laptop: you use materials
with a higher strength/weight ratio wherever you can.

- David