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Toshiba NB100

3 Dec 29th, 2008

Advantages:
Nice look, good battery life .

Disadvantages:
Too small .

Recommendable: No 

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I think the only way to describe this notebook is small, light and cheap. I wasn't overly impressed by it but there are some far worse models around.

Look and design

For starters, as i have already said, it's small, far smaller than any notebook or laptop I have ever owned, making portablility very easy indeed. This does however mean that typing is quite uncomfortable and doing so for long periods of time, as I found out when doing a document on this, leaves you with quite a bit of muscle cramp. As i have also previously said, it's very light, weighing less than 1kg, adding to the ease of portablility.

It does look quite stylish, the shiny metalic silver exterior combines quite well with the black interior to create a pretty cool look. It only has an 8.9 inch screen, but considering how small the notebook is, this is actually pretty impressive.

Function

The notebook works quite well with wireless internet and doesn't cut off often as I have found with wi-fi on some other laptops.

It also has an impressive battery life, in a recent car journey, I found it lasted about 3 and 3/4 hours, easily enough time for all of the film I was watching as well as some of another.

It is available in two versions, Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP Home., but the Linux has 512Mb of RAM and an 80Gb hard disk, the Windows one has 1Gb of RAM and a 120Gb drive. I personally own the windows version, since I know more about the operating system and prefer the high memory levels.

The rest of it's specifications are pretty average for a note book and it runs as such.

Overall

The Toshiba NB100 is great if you're japanese and/or believe things should be made as small as humanly possible. However, personally, I'd rather have a laptop where I can type without looking and feeling as if my wrists have been tied together. 

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Afya

Afya

14.01.2009 15:57

This is a "netbook", not a notebook. Surely the point of a netbook is that it is as small, light and energy efficient as possible? Your review is useful for anyone who is under the impression that it's a normal laptop, but I'm not sure it's fair to criticise it for being very small when that's the point. :o) You can plug in a portable external keyboard if you want to use it for word-processing. However the review is well written nonetheless :)

JAVER1967

JAVER1967

31.12.2008 22:33

Excellent review

redeyes22

redeyes22

29.12.2008 23:31

great review aggy

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