Recommendations for this laptop?

Hey--I'm am dealing with 2nd HD crash in 18 months on my Powerbook G4. Will have to decide what my options are and want to find out what anyone thinks about the newer laptops?
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I've not seen evidence one way or the other that the head is parked, but something must allow it to remember the exact state so quickly when it wakes up. In some cases that can be something which I don't think can just be stored in RAM alone, which suggests it isn't as simple as the hard drive being parked when it is asleep. Granted based on the information in the logs, it doesn't allow the Macjanitor style tasks to run while the machine is asleep. But on the other hand, how it is able to wake from sleep so quickly, makes me wonder if the machine is really completely asleep. Regardless I used to keep my machine asleep a lot through bus rides, with a Powerbook G3/233. It never fell, and yet I replaced 3 hard drives in 9 months, all under AppleCare. Once I shut down my Mac when I travelled, I never had to replace my hard drive again for the rest of AppleCare. And yet, my commute with my computer was identical. What evidence do you have the hard drive is parked when it is asleep?

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Because there are a huge number of these apps, I ask for recommendation while I'm searching and testing some of them.
I need them to be [bold]lightweight[/bold] (because it is running on a 16 Go Class 10 SD card).
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