An 11.6in netbook with great battery life

Dell's Inspiron M102z is an 11.6in netbook using AMD's Fusion technology. It runs an AMD E-350 APU (accelerated processing unit) which combines the CPU and the graphics in one small chip, so it's a lot  faster than a conventional 10in netbook based on Intel's Atom CPU.

The Inspiron M102z's relatively large size make it comfortable to use, it provides a decent-sized (62mm) palmrest and a chiclet keyboard with big keys (16mm) which are well laid out. The touchpad is a good size (75x39mm) and it's very responsive when using the two-finger scroll gesture.

The Inspiron really excelled in our battery tests. Its 6-cell, 56 Watt-hour battery lasted 4hr 32min in bigest usage: disable power management, enable Wi-Fi, maximise screen brightness and loop an Xvid-encoded video. This is over an hour longer than the other Fusion-based netbooks and it helps to set the Dell apart in this field.

The Dell Inspiron M201z doesn't have the eye-catching style of the Sony and Toshiba Fusion models we've seen (save for its colour) and it doesn't have USB 3.0 like the MSI, but it does have a long battery life. If  you're in the market for an AMD Fusion netbook, and you want long battery life out of it, then you should definitely consider this Inspiron.