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A non-removable lithium-polymer Apple A1175 Battery  is integrated into the enclosure. Apple claims this battery can last seven hours off a single charge and has a five-year lifespan. In our tests the battery ran for 3hr 26min while playing a DVD with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned off. The inability to swap the Acer Aspire 2000 battery for another one might leave you with a dead notebook if you are away from a power point for an extended period.

For these reasons, netbooks stand to become a huge market. According to Lazard Capital Markets' Amir the total number of netbooks sold worldwide will reach 25 million this year, up from 10 million in 2008. And growth should only pick up from there.

Not to nitpick, but at full brightness, the screens on modern laptops put out 250 to 300 nits. The MobileMark test, in other words,Sony VGP-BPS2C battery, specifies setting the screen at a fraction of full brightness — a setting that few people use in the real world. (Advanced Micro Devices says that 60 nits is about 20 percent brightness on most laptops. Intel says it’s closer to 50 percent. Either way, it’s too low.)

On Primate Labs' Geekbench2 benchmarking software, the XT2 scored a 1728 which, while not spectacular, is about where other systems with similar specifications fall. Despite the low score, the system showed no signs of dragging and ran smoothly and relatively quickly.

In contrast, SSDs have no moving parts. They are created in much the same fashion as microprocessors — by etching digital logic gates into silicon through a lithography process. SSDs are typically huge conglomerations of Not-Or or, in most cases, Not-And (NAND) gates.