Best Notebooks - 0 to 4 lb. Weight, SD Card, 4 to 5 Hours Battery Run Time

'Apple's MacBook Air is thin and powerful enough to use as a mainstream laptop.'

'The 11-inch MacBook Air is a powerful ultraportable that makes other systems in its class look positively bloated.'

'the HP Mini 5102 was able to hold its own.'

'Design and Build quality The HP Mini 5102 is incredibly sturdy for a 10 inch netbook.'

'excellent keyboard layout'

'comfortable keyboard'

'perfect notebook'

'perfect notebook'

'impressive face-recognition system'

'the Mini 210 was able to play songs with a mix of high- and mid-range instruments and vocals without distortion.'

'for long periods of time on the HP Mini 210 is relatively easy.'

'The Mini 210's base line was highly impressive, however, lasting four hours and 45 minutes before conking out.'

'The three-pound system not only feels solid, but its inch-thin body is quite slender.'

'It's funny, really: Many makers of high-end notebooks don't even bother--simply tossing a PDF in the box--and yet this well-laid-out book covers all the bases.'

'Black is elegant, especially when you’re out on the town with your new Asus Eee PC 1005HA-PU1X-BK Netbook.'

'The Eee PC 1005HA-P is available in black and blue and both have a gloss finish lid that looks lovely but attracts fingerprints like mad.'

'The flat, wide keyboard, similar to what we saw on the Eee PC 1008HA, is among the better Netbook keyboards we've used, and the full-size right Shift key is one of those things you don't realize is very important until it goes missing.'

'For the reviewer at Laptop Magazine the best thing about the notebook is its LED-backlit XBrite-DuraView screen which turned out to be extremely vibrant and and had excellent viewing angles.'

'performance serious road warriors demand'

'Excellent screen colour and vibrancy • Keyboard is excellent to type on • Stamina/Speed modes let you choose between performance or battery power.'

'brilliant laptop'

'more elegant, gunmetal-hued look'

'The keys have a comfortable feel but are more cramped than those on the Samsung NC10, and the size and placement of the right Shift key (at the outer edge of the keyboard) will be hard for touch typists to get used to.'