The Toshiba NB300 is an almost ideal netbook for travellers thanks to these functions, but even students and business users who are searching for a tiny laptop should consider the NB300. Nevertheless, it’s not a really fast netbook – its hard drive, in particular, is a little bit of a slow coach – so don’t expect it to be anything more than a convenient tool for web browsing, creating office documents and watching standard-definition videos.

The Toshiba NB300 comes equipped with an Intel Atom N450 CPU, which runs at 1.66GHz and has Hyper-Threading. It’s a much more advanced CPU than the Intel N280 CPU in previous generation netbooks – it has integrated graphics and memory controllers – but it is not faster. The NB300 will perform just like any other netbook in the marketplace and, actually, it is really a small slower compared to Toshiba NB200, which it replaces.

In the iTunes MP3 encoding test – in which we encode 53min worth of WAV files to 192Kbps MP3s – the Windows 7-based Toshiba NB300 recorded a time of 7min 46sec, which can be 11sec slower compared to Windows XP-based NB200. It’s not much of a difference within the overall scheme of things, but it shows that even though the NB300 is really a new-model netbook having a slightly various body kit and engine, it offers almost the same amount of horsepower. Whilst utilizing it for everyday tasks it occasionally feels sluggish, particularly when launching programs and switching windows. You just have to remember not to do too much at the same time.

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