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Summary

A premium-quality 10-inch netbook with thoughtful design, the new Inspiron Mini 10 sells for an attractively low price.

Acer's latest netbook based on Intel's Pine Trail Atom chip, the Aspire One 532h offers very good keyboard and battery life.

Three things about the Ideapad S10-3: amazing keyboard, great proprietary software, good performance -- at an attractive price.

The best looking Wind netbook of all time, the MSI Wind U160 turns up the heat on its competitors with a very good overall deal.

This 10-inch netbook from HP offers good functionality. It has better system memory, hard drive, and some truly unique features.

PCWorld Rating
85 Very Good
83 Very Good
82 Very Good
81 Very Good
80 Very Good
Price
17,900
17,420
21,290
23,999
23,000

Features & Specifications

Screen

10.1-inch glossy LED-backlit, 1024x600

10.1-inch glossy, 1024x600 res

10.1-inch LED-backlit glossy, 1024x600 res

10.1-inch glossy, 1024x600 res

10.1-inch glossy LED-backlit, 1024x600 res

CPU

Intel Atom N450 1.66-GHz processor

Intel Atom N450 1.66-GHz processor

Intel Atom N450 1.66-GHz

Intel Atom N450 1.66-GHz processor

Intel Atom N450 1.6-GHz processor

RAM

1GB DDR2

1GB DDR2

1GB DDR2

2GB DDR2

2GB DDR2

HDD

250GB hard drive

160GB

250GB

320GB 5400rpm

320GB

Graphics

Onboard Intel GMA 3150 graphics

Intel GMA 3150 onboard

Onboard Intel GMA 3150

Onboard Intel GMA 3150

Onboard Intel GMA 3150

USB Ports

3

3

3

3

3

Gigabit Ethernet

No

No

No

No

No

Wi-Fi

802.11 b/g

802.11 b/g

802.11 b/g

802.11 b/g/n

802.11 b/g

SSD

No

No

No

No

No

Multicard Reader

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Weight

1.38-kg

1.3-kg

1.2-kg

1.3-kg

1.4-kg

Battery

6-cell

6-cell

6-cell

6-cell

6-cell

OS

32-bit Windows 7 Starter Edition

Windows XP SP3 Home Edition

32-bit Windows 7 Starter Edition

32-bit Windows 7 Starter Edition

32-bit Windows 7 Starter Edition

Performance

WorldBench 6

33

35

33

36

35

Office 2003 (sec)

702

595

661

659

591

Multitasking (sec)

1328

1427

1283

1205

1375

Firefox (sec)

958

778

904

872

745

Winzip (sec)

701

690

680

579

678

Battery Life (mins)

281

269

223

271

255

PC Mark 05

1471

1475

1344

1429

1419

3D Mark 06

152

155

144

166

153

Linear Disk Read (Begin)

75.6 MB/s

50.6 MB/s

75.6 MB/s

64.2 MB/s

95.4 MB/s

Random Disk Read

64.3 MB/s

37.5 MB/s

55.9 MB/s

46.9 MB/s

69.8 MB/s

Disk Read Access

17.66 ms

19.38 ms

18.95 ms

16.63 ms

16.36

HD 720p Playback

Very Good

Very Good

Fair

Fair

Fair