Archos 10

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Reviews for the Archos 10

Archos - Archos 10 review
Source: IT Reviews Archive.org version
For a company that tries hard to set the pace in its chosen field - media players - Archos's decision to launch a netbook now seems like an odd one. The market's pretty defined, the big players established and users have had time to work out what they want (and their expectations are considerable); all of which means the Archos 10 needs to be much more than another me-too product. So how does it shape up? At the full retail price this is a disappointing, average netbook with poor battery life and a ragbag of free software. But seek out one of the retailers who's selling the version with the more capacious 6-cell battery for £100 less and - shazam! - it turns into a good deal.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/23/2009
Rating: price: 50% mobility: 40%

40% Archos 10 review
Source: Techradar Archive.org version

Yes, it's a laptop from the portable media player manufacturer. Archos is known for its portable media players, but also has a range of netbooks, including the Archos 10. As the name implies, this is a 10-inch netbook, offering an affordable entry into the netbook market.

Although it's affordable and highly portable, the lack of any stand-out features whatsoever and the truly appalling keyboard make it impossible to recommend the Archos 10 over its rivals. This is one netbook best avoided.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/17/2009
Rating: Total score: 40%

60% Archos 10 notebook
Source: Pocket Lint Archive.org version
  The Archos 10 delivers a netbook experience without really stepping up over last year's offerings. Unfortunately the price does seem to have stepped up to 2009's level. At £350 (£380 with 6-cell battery) the Archos 10 is punching above its weight alongside offerings from the likes of Asus and MSI, so there is little to appeal here.
60
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/02/2009
Rating: Total score: 60%

Foreign Reviews

Edelbuch
Source: c't - 24/09
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 11/01/2009
Rating: price: 80%

Mini-Vielfalt
Source: c't - 18/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 08/01/2009
Rating: performance: 40% features: 40% display: 70% mobility: 40% ergonomy: 40% emissions: 70%

81% Vergleichstest
Source: Computerbild - 6/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 05/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 81% price: 90% performance: 74% features: 79% display: 89% ergonomy: 79% emissions: 97%

80% Archos 10
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/26/2009
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 70% features: 10% display: 70% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 50%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Atom: The Intel Atom series is a 64-Bit (not every model supports 64bit) microprocessor for cheap and small notebooks (so called netbooks), MIDs, or UMPCs. The speciality of the new architecture is the "in order" execution (instead of the usual and faster "out of order" execution). Therefore, the transistor count of the Atom series is much lower and, thus, cheaper to produce. Furthermore, the power consumption is very low. The performance per Megahertz is therfore worse than the old Pentium 3M (1,2 GHz on par with a 1.6 GHz Atom).

N270:

Power efficient, cheap and slow Netbook single core CPU. Because of the in-order execution, the performance per MHz is worse than Core Solo or Celeron M processors.

10.20":

This is a standard display format for tablet computers or small convertibles. You see more on the screen than on a smartphone but you can't use big resolutions well. On the other hand, mobility is not a problem.

Archos: The French manufacturer Archos S.A. was founded in 1988. While they initially produced products such as MP3 players, they have started producing laptops, smartphones, and tablets in 2009.

The world market shares are small, but there are many reviews on Archos smartphones and tablets. While the ratings were below average in the early years, they have become better by 2016.

65.25%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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