With everything that you're going through, wouldn't it be enough to simply buy a laptop?
equivalent AMD process is just fine. it's mainly
the processing power.
it's to allow me to carry around a cpu+auth+fossil.
40G disks found in inexpensive laptops are plenty big;
1GB RAM, although either 256 or 512 MB would work.
if i could rip the display and keyboard out of an inexpensive laptop
and put it in a very thin case, i'd be satisfied.
> There are several micro-ATX boards which take an
> AMD64/Sempron/Turion (socket 754) if you are not
> tied to the P4.
>
> There are usually other considerations than simply
> small-footprint. If that's what you want then you
> probably also want it to be queit and cool because
> you're not sticking it in the basement out of sight.
> And will you have discs in it, will you run it with
> a monitor, etc.