Best Mini Notebooks On The Market

The notebooks are getting more and more popular in the present, and more and more people are preferring to spend the extra money compared to buying a desktop computer and to benefit from the many advantages offered by a laptop. There are many produces of notebooks and here are the best ones in the world: Hewlett Packard, Acer, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, Fujitsu, MSI and Apple. Today we are going to focus on just one of these companies, and we’ll choose Asus.




Asus (with the original name Asustek) is a large multinational company that makes all sorts of computer related products such as: notebooks, servers, motherboards, mobile phones and others. It was founded quite recently compared to other companies (in 1990) by TH Tung and Ted Hsu and the headquarters is in Taiwan. But of course it has many other subsidiaries all over the world. It evolved a lot in time, and now it is one of the best producers of laptops in the world. It 2009 the revenues of the company reached 21 billion dollars, and it is also listed on the London Stock Exchange and on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. So whenever you will buy an Asus product you can be sure that it offers a good quality.



Today we are going to discuss about a laptop offered by the company, and we’ll choose a slightly special one. Asus also makes some of the best mini notebooks in the world, so today we’ll discuss about one of them. A mini notebook looks just like a normal laptop, only that it is much smaller. Today we’ll discuss about the ASUS N 10 Jc.

As you can see the design is quite simple and elegant, meaning that this notebook can be used by a teenager but also by a business man. Among its good parts there is the good graphics engine and the HDMI port that will allow you to connect it to a High Definition TV, and one negative aspect is the glossy screen that is hard to see in the daylight. The price for this model is somewhere around 600 dollars, depending on the store or site where you buy it from. And of course if you want a model with  much better technical details you will have to pay more for it. So here are the complete technical details for this model:
-         Processor class – Intel Atom N 270
-         Processor speed- 1600 MHz
-         Installed memory – 1024 MB
-         Memory technology – DDR 2 667 SDRAM
-         Display size – 10.2 inches
-         Maximum resolution – 1024 x 800
-         Storage – Total HD Size- 160 GB
-         Removable Optical Drive – No
-         Slots : Express Card Slot, SD Card, Memory Stick,
-         Number of Media Slots – 2
-         Number of Included Batteries   – 1
-         Standard Number of Batteries – 1
-         Type of Batteries – Lithium ion

-         Dimensions
-         Weight (with accessories) – 3.7 lbs
-         Width – 10.8 inches
-         Depth -7.6 inches
-         Height – 1.4 inches
-         Other Features – Input devices – Touchpad
-         Bluetooth – No
-         Included network card – Gigabit Ethernet
-         Modem Type – Not Included
-         Wireless LAN Type – 802.11a/games
-         Video chipset – Intel UMA & Nvidia GeForce 9300 M
-         Installed video memory- 256 MB
-         Video integration – Discrete
-         Operating system – Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
-         Interface Connections : Audio – Microphone In (1/8 ” Mini), USB – Universal Serial Bus Port (x 3), Audio – Headphone Out (1/8 ” Mini)
-         Included Devices – Built-In Speakers – Stereo
-         Docking Station Port – No

The people who bought this laptop were quite happy with it, and some are even considering the perfect laptop for their needs. The overall rating given by pcworld.com is 78 points out of 100 (78 for performance, 76 for features and 85 for design) while the customer rating is 3 stars out of 5. Compared to other netbooks it is really good, and the Sony Vaio W series has a score of just 57 points. The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 also has a score of 78, and a model that is better is the Toshiba NB 205, which has a score of 92.

So after all if you are looking for a really small and highly portable notebook, with good technical details and acceptable features, you can choose to buy the Asus N 10 Jc for a price of around 600 dollars. Enjoy it!