Quoting Russell McMahon : >> Pretty much all machines now have "standard" hard drive connections > (since standard hard drives are options on most machines). > > As for expansion, pretty much all netbooks have SD card slots (some have > two) machine expansion a breeze considering how cheap 16 and 32GB SD > cards have become. > /> > > > FWIW - the Sony Vaio netbook, which does an excellen job i\of being small > and compact, has the ?1GB? of RAM soldered in :-(. Not expandable I think. > Their screen resolution is also AFAIK boom or bust - either massively wide > hd or ?640 x 480? with nothing in between. > > 160 GB is getting common. > 250 GB on 1 or 2. > 320 GB on the HP is the first I've seen that large. Of course they are a standard 2.5" SATA drive in most cases, so you ought to be able to drop a $75 500G drive into a 160G netbook if you so desire. I understand the 160G is a limitation imposed for XP home licensing. > What I want is a CF slot, but none seem to do that. I picked up a little white 4" x 1" x 0.6" external reader with attached 6" USB cable in Kowloon. Does the trick. My main lappy has an Express Card CF reader that generally lives in the slot (it does not stick out at all when no card is inserted). Only a few $$$ full-size notebooks have CF slots, unfortunately. I think CF is gradually going the way of the dodo. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist