why do you need improvement with that? I assume you'll probably replace the drive in 10 years... 10 years ago consumer PCs used 8gig hard drives. I don't see many 8gig hard drives lying around today. Assuming you'll replace it in 10 years, you can do 700GB of write-erase per day, which means you could reflash the entire drive 20 times a day... How often do you do that on your Aspire One?

wow 12 years ago? so... 1996? In 1996 there was a little known company called 3dfx that was announcing the release of a graphics accelerator card called the Voodoo 1... it was kind of funny since you had to do this weird video card passthru thing.

I don't think Nvidia even existed back then. Around late 1998 they would release the Riva card though. They're first foray into 3d gaming. And until late 1999, the riva drivers sucked badly.

I have a hunch that Apple didn't design their laptops for hardcore gamers.

Yeah that one is nice... much better resolution too (1280x768) and uses a LED bulb as well. The 3M one has VGA input which is probably more suitable for laptops, the Pico only has A/V input so if you don't have one of those laptops with composite A/V output, you're out of luck.

They should make the battery replaceable. I think the battery will die long before the LED dies off.

Yeah, what about Xie Hua? Is Xie a male or female?

Also I might note that in some cultures, there is less of a male/female oriented names. My sister and I were named off of a variant of the jade stone, which probably has little to do with me being male, or my sister female.

Why would Xie be the last name? I know someone by this name, and Hua happens to be the family name (I'm Chinese btw). I also know someone by the name of Xie Chen. (obviously Chen is the last name here). In the first case, Xie Hua is a guy, in the second case, Xie Chen is a girl.