The Dell Mini 9 Netbook

I've tried several methods of making my demo video as portable as possible. Ipods and Zunes can work in a pinch, but the screen is pretty small among other issues. Many in our field have used those portable DVD players for this purpose as well. they Never seem to last.

This little netbook not only serves this purpose very well, it's actually pretty darn useable as a computer! Not only that, but it's quite cheap too. Video playback works pretty well up to a point, as the little Atom processor struggles with some high bandwidth or HD content out there.

I'd suggest in most cases not to go for the Linux version unless you have experience with it. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Linux. I'm a fan of the whole open software movement in general. Whle the Ubuntu flavor of the operating system on these machines is quite good, it does not have the software and media support that XP does.