Today, an idea came to me from this thread:

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/forum/viewthread/6249/

I might perform this job, but before I do, what do you all think could also be a great use of this space when removing the optical drive?

I wish I could insert a battery here like the IBM Thinkpad laptops allow you to. Any other ideas aside from another drive?

So did you ever do it?

Ironically, I just sold my laptop yesterday on Ebay. I no longer own a Sony laptop and have switched over to the new Asus EEE PC.

That’s cool man.  I kind of did the same thing, except I got a Toshiba R500.  I like those Asus netbooks though.  Did you get the one with the 8.9”?