Averatec 6200 Laptop + DVD player

Averatec's new 6200 notebook takes a stab at solving the whole "I
want to watch DVDs on the absurdly long plane ride I'm being forced to take but my laptop battery will die and I don't want to carry a separate DVD player" dilemma (it's a dilemma for some
people) by incorporating a special DVD mode, which
can play DVDs, CDs and MP3 CDswithout having to boot up (there are a few other laptops that can do this, too, and Toshiba is pimping this as a big feature of their new Qosmio laptop). They even include a remote which cleverly hides in the PCMIA slot when not in use. This mode has low enough power consumption for four and a half hours of movie (conveniently described as "three 90 minute movies" on their site). It's not too shabby of a laptop either,
with a Mobile Athlon 2400+ processor, a 15.4 inch screen, an XGA TFT screen (max resolution of 1280 x 800), a combo DVD/CD-RW drive, 60 GB hard drive, 512MB or RAM, 10/100 ethernet and 802.11g to round the package out (awful nice of them). And it's not even too expensive,
coming in at $1249 retail.