Toshiba Libretto U100

Fingerprint reader. Excellent battery life. 60GB hard drive. Great little widescreen

Poor placement of the pointing stick. Small keyboard

It looks like nothing more than a clamshell PDA, but inside you'll find a fully functional Microsoft Windows XP operating system, a fingerprint reader, and a 60GB hard drive.

All pluses and minuses considered, I think I find far more pluses than I do minuses. So, if you can handle the extra $60, and you don’t need the extra functions on the Audinst, then the Yulong U100 is the box you should get for your headphones.

Even with its detachable DVD dock, it's smaller and lighter than almost every notebook on the market, Performance, input/output connections, and battery life are all better than you'd expect

High-resolution screen means horrible eyestrain; keyboard sized for fingertip tapping, not typing

It's not the longest-lived of the subnotebooks we've sampled, but the Libretto's lithium-ion battery pack provides nearly-transcontinental-flight stamina: Dividing our time more or less evenly between DVD or CD use and undocked, low-voltage word...

Putting it briefly, the Toshiba Libretto U100-S213 is a good compromise between compactness and functionality. It is not free from typical drawbacks of super-compact notebooks like small keys on the keyboard, a small screen with a big resolution, and a...

Tiny and light, powerful for its size

Can be difficult to control pointer

The Libretto's miniature size and light weight will attract veterans of the road who want to travel without being encumbered.