the best 10.1" notebook computers

[telboy1938]

Can you guys suggest the top three 10.1" screen laptops taking "speed" as the importance. I have the Asus EEE PC at present but the processor is very slow. Any suggestions will be appreciated.....Happy New Year to all out there.
Tel

[society]

I bought my niece an Asus netbook which I occasionally use and find it to work very well. And it's not slow, I'd say it's moderately fast. Perhaps it's your internet connection?

[telboy1938]

Thanks society but I know that's not the case as my PC and home laptop run very well on my 3Mg internet speed. It is only the small Asus (which I use when travelling) that is slow whether at home on my own internet connection or via wireless connection when away. Maybe ChuckFickens is on-line after his New Year festivities.
Regards...telboy

[ChuckFickens]

TO be honest you are not going to find a very fast 10" laptop (netbook) as they are designed for low power and portability, not speed. and as such they are all pretty much on a par when it comes to speed and specs (all being based on the Atom processor, a low power processor)

The slight exception is there some dual core atom based netbooks on the market (your one is only a single core) which will have a little more go in them, I've not used one to offer comparison but I'd still not expect them to be a power house!

If you need the extra power then you've got to start looking at 12-13inch laptops with the full spec processors in them rather than 10inch with the low power processors but, as always, you get what you pay for and if you want portability and power you are going to have to pay a lot more than your EEE PC cost you!

As a side... I have an EEE PC myself and find it perfectly usable for most things (certainly all the things I'd expect this class of machine to be used for) without any serious speed issues, but it does have to be kept as a very clean, streamlined install, if you start loading a netbook up with all the sort of rubbish and unnecessary background tasks that most systems end up with on them then performance will seriously suffer.

[AlBags]

Yes ... Multi-Core processors and fast drives are good.

[telboy1938]

Hi ChuckFickens. Hope you had good festive period and not to "hung-over". I note your comments ( good-as always) I know the EeeePC is not all that speedy but it is only over the past 3 to 4 months that the speed has dropped dramatically. So much so that I contemplated "binning2 it. I don't really know what to remove from it (don't wish to remove a necessary item) Any further help would be great.
I would attach list of installed programs but can't see how to on this site.
Regards...Telboy

[Hopkirk]

The Gadget Show did a test on 3 budget notebooks recently, and picked the Acer Aspire One.

http://fwd.five.tv/ga...-test/budget-netbooks