Most multimedia-oriented notebooks these days are nine-pound beasts that aim to supplant a traditional desktop PC. Not so the Sharp Actius MP30. This svelte 2.8-pound beauty will have little trouble attracting attention with its cool, clean, almost-Applesque design. And it won't have much trouble keeping a crowd either: It debuts Transmeta's new 90-nm Efficeon 1.6-GHz processor, and is the first ultraportable to have InterVideo's Instant Play technology for CDs and DVDs. Not bad for a little guy.