They compare these laptops to (or push them into) jewelery. I bet it’s because the price for developing such a laptop is uber expensive. In other words, Paris hilton will have a laptop now, great, but who will teach her how to use it??? :-)

I live really small laptops — since I know how you feel, I won’t call them ultra portable.

But .7-inches isn’t that out of the ordinary, in fact a few years ago I owned a Sharp um32w that was also that thin, and not just in one spot. I loved that little guy, but like many others it had power problems. I still have it in my closet in hopes that someone starts a class action suit and forces Sharp to fix it for free. No I don’t want a refund, but a 802.11G upgrade might be nice.