Originally posted by Pae
My friend has that one, and he quite enjoys it. He's a computer nerd like myself and uses it constantly for his job/onsite comp fixing/etc.

As for a portable DVD player, the speakers suck (as most laptop speakers do).
Yeah, all small speakers are going to be awful. But if you have a headphones jack on it (which most do, and the Acer you're looking at does), you can plug in to some other speaker system. Of course, if you're planning to take this thing to a party and provide the backing sound for everything, you might have to bring 3.5mm to RCA cable... I forgot that last party, and was completely unable to put Looney Tunes cartoons on the big speakers.

That looks like quite a good model. Of course, you pay through the nose for the miniaturization, but you were expecting to do that. Reviewers are recommending you get an external CD/DVD drive, but if you have a wireless network at home, you could just use that very conveniently - it supports 802.11b/g as well as 10/100Mbit LAN.

Personally, I prefer a full laptop on which I can type at a decent speed, but the penalty is that Traal weighs a couple of kilos. If you want something tiny, then that Acer looks to be a good choice.