No doubt the Twinhead 10D is an ingenious, light and graceful designed laptop dwarf. With good workmanship and well styled, it compares with the MSI S260/S270.

The 10" display with a resolution of 1280x768 presents a very good brightness, good colors and a good stability from different points of view.

The Pentium M "Ultra Low Voltage" ULV 1,1 Ghz is optimal used in this 1,6kg Subnotebook, not at least due to its small current consumption and the small temperature development.

Also its performance is sufficient for the requirements of the 10" equipment. Unfortunately an infrared and/or a Bluetooth port is missing, which would be useful in a ultramobile subnotebook like the Twinhead 10D.

We can recommend the Twinhead 10D for all, who think that the MSI S260 is somewhat too large.

In normal operation the subnotebook hardly can be heard (hard disk a little bit). The ventilator switches on itself during increased requirement.  Then unfortunately it causes some noise.

The DVD drive assembly proved to be too loud when playing music CD's. Software tools like CD brake may help.

Unfortunately we have to state that a graphical feedback of the audio volume control is completely missing.

Measuring data: ambient noise, equipment on, ventilator out: 30,5 dB
hard disc on: 31,5 dB
ventilator out: 41,6 dB

PCMark04
2048 Points

3DMark01
2354 Points

3DMark03
115 Points (only 4 tests available)

Quake 3
42,2 fps with timedemo1, all details with high, trilinear filtering

Hdtune 2.10

Approximately 50% of the bench mark tests abort with the message: "Read error". Up to this time the following values could be determined:
min. 14,9MB/sec
max. 29,9MB/sec

The Twinhead 10D causes a very good impression. The housing is good elaborated, no crunching noises, trembling or torching or unusual gap dimensions could be determined.

The drive assembly drawer of DVD Rom closes properly matching without jamming.

The hinges of the display are solid and grant an accurate positioning of the display. Without closing bolts the danger remains that the display opens in the bag and an somethings slips between keyboard and display and causes damages.

The inside of the equipment presents itself graceful designed and elegantly, similarly as the MSI S260. Despite the plastic surface this feels well and of high-quality. The cover of the test equipment was implemented in red metallic and fits well the optics of the 10D.

The bulky and rigid cable of power supply is not well.

At the left side of the equipment the DVD drive assembly and a PCMCIA Slot with plastic dummy are situated and - graceful designed behind a flap - the connection for LAN and telephone hides as well as a 1394 Firewire port.

The equipment back is occupied by the power connection and almost completely by a 4000mAh accu.

The right side of the Twinhead 10D offers a VGA monitor exit, to 2 USB ports, a Kensington lock, a SD/MS/MMC card reader and microphone and headphone exit. Also the ventilator discharge opening is there. An additional USB port would be an advantage.

At the front there is only a slide switch for the activation of WLAN.

The keyboard is small, which does not surprise with an 10" equipment. Particularly at the extremly slim curser keys and the "." "-" keys some error hits may occur. The keyboard is pleasant and quite quiet. As additional key a button at the left side of the loudspeaker is located, which allows to open the Media Player.

The keys of the Touchpads are to be served well and clearly. Tipping on the finger surface of the touchpad a few lacks of response occur.