Solace was to be found from the kind folks at MSI. They've arranged for me to borrow one of their Megabook S250s for the duration of my trip (and hopefully some time afterwards!) to Taipei and ShenZhen, and it's in a different class of portability to my usual Dell. You may have seen the sleek black Megabook S270 on HEXUS' pages in recent times. Powered by Athlon 64 or Turion, the S270 sports a 12" widescreen LCD in a tiny chassis, making it one of the smallest 64-bit notebook PCs that you can buy at the time of writing.



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