I was looking for a laptop PC.

I wanted something that I'd use occassionally, not a full blooded desktop replacement or (God forbid) an 'Entertainment Laptop'!

What's that about? I want a laptop to be TINY - Sony's little Vaios would be ideal, but they're insanely expensive (£1799 for the new one - When an equivalently specced bigger laptop's about £799 and a desktop about fourpence and a bag of chips!) - but no, some loony thinks I want it to weigh about 4KG, have a 17" Widescreen display and built in hi-fi speakers.

Some people might I suppose (Don't know why really), but I don't so I went off looking for a little PC at an affordable price and, you know what, I couldn't find ANYTHING!

All Laptop PCs these days seem to have 15"+ screens, great big keyboards, DVD burners, etc, etc, etc

So I went looking for those tiny Dells I'd seen people with a couple of years ago and found a refurbished 12" screened C400 for about £200! Just the ticket!

It's not got a built in CD player (I can get one off eBay, use a USB DVD RW unit or not bother) or surround sound Dolby speakers and the disk drive's only 20GB, but it weighs less than 1.6Kg and will run Office, etc, etc, etc and has wifi and wired lan for installing software (the odd document I want to move on and off without a network, I can use a USB key for).

(Hopefully it will live up to expectation - I should get it next Monday... YEP it did - Great little laptop )

I don't understand the fad for big, heavy, cumbersome laptops - I've had jobs for ages where I had to carry one to meetings and I don't want to carry something akin to a flatscreen TV!

Seems like someone should make a competitor to Sony's Vaio at a sensible price - I reckon they'd clean up!

Cheers.