which are placed above the function key row on the keyboard’s deck

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Because of frequent skipping and lagging with the touch response, quick writing is impossible with the stylus. Clicking and dragging offered up the same sorts of skips and lags, making using the touch interface an exercise in patience.

The S6F also completed our Windows Media Encoder test in 11 minutes and 20 seconds (less than half the time the VAIO took), proving it has multimedia chops as well.

Battery life was less spectacular. We squeezed out 3 hours and 30 minutes of juice in our DVD drain test–a respectable score for an ultraportable, but still more than two hours shy of the VAIO VGN-TXN15P’s excellent battery life.

When the tx2z is in tablet mode, you lose access to the dedicated volume/mute hard keys, which are placed above the function key row on the keyboard’s deck.

The beefy hinge keeps the screen stable as you type in traditional laptop mode yet lets you easily swivel and fold the screen flat against the keyboard for use in slate mode.

And oddly, HP did not include dedicated multimedia control keys (skip, pause, play, and so on), which have been a staple on the 455804-001 company’s consumer laptops for years.

Lenovo has included dedicated volume and mute buttons above the Function key row, as well as a handy Mute button for the 460143-001 built-in microphone. There are no multimedia control keys, however.

Text was sharp, and DVDs and Vista’s Aero interface looked great. An integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 adapter that shares up to 256MB of system memory powers the graphics. Casual gamers won’t be disappointed with this chip.

The VGA Webcam even includes an infrared LED to make it work better in dark environments. But anyone who doesn’t warm to the ThinkPad T400s keyboard is on the wrong side of the debate, plain and simple.

You’ll likely have more trouble finding the right screwdrivers to use with the Neutrino’s case than with installing any of the parts. (You’ll need two small Philips screwdrivers, as there are two different sizes of screws.)

OCZ provides clear instructions on how to remove the bottom cover, install the hard drive into its metal frame, and pop in the RAM.

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