I like fujitsu brands of notebook not only are they small, they are built with very good heat circulation and are one of the smallest most compact notebooks out there. Their quality is 2nd to only maybe IBM http://store.shopfujitsu.com/fpc/Ecommerce/productoverview.do?type=NB&pgid=Notebooks check em out, there are whole forums about the P series and the S series at leog.net Dells - sometimes have poor heat circulation, monitor broke off on me as well. IBM - are well built but expensive ACER - cheap but not well built, I have one right now as well, had to return it because the motherboard broke, but its affordable , very! fujitsu - love it , have a P2020 from 2001, still chumming along. super compact compaq/hp - middle ground toshiba - not bad, never tried it yet. check out newegg.com for prices as well.