Patent ID: 8000097

Claim:
An information processing device comprising: a flat rectangular parallelepiped upper enclosure having an input operation part for inputting an operation signal; a flat rectangular parallelepiped lower enclosure which supports the upper enclosure with a varied attitude and on which the upper enclosure is superposed; a disk drive device stored in one of the upper enclosure and the lower enclosure and having a disk mounting part on which a disk-shaped recording medium is detachably mounted, the disk drive device carrying out at least one of recording of a first information signal on and reproducing of a second information signal from the disk-shaped recording medium mounted on the disk mounting part and rotationally driven; and an enclosure moving mechanism setting a disk storage region to have a first thickness with the upper enclosure allowed to have a distance from the lower enclosure when the disk drive device is used and setting the disk storage region to have a second thickness smaller than the first thickness with the upper enclosure allowed to come close to the lower enclosure to reduce the disk storage region when the disk drive device is not used.