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A Principled Technologies test report 2

Dell Latitude 2120: Netbook durability comparison

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Students who use school-provided netbooks do not always handle these systems with appropriate

care. A student transporting his or her netbook day after day is likely to accidently drop the netbook at one

time or another. To see how well they withstood such accidents, we tested the following netbooks from

leading vendors:

 Acer® Aspire® One 533

 ASUS Eee PC™ 1015 PEM

 ASUS Eee PC 1016P

 ASUS Eee PC 1018P

 ASUS Eee PC 1215N

 Dell Latitude 2120

 HP Mini 100e

 HP Mini 2102*

 Lenovo® IdeaPad® S10-3*

 Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t*

To test the drop resistance of each netbook, we performed up to three 29-inch flat drops onto

commercial-grade carpet while the netbook was open and running MAXON CINEBENCH R10. After each drop,

we measured how well each system had protected its data using HD Tune Pro 4.01 and HDDScan 3.2, tests

that assess hard drive damage. After a system failed to boot, we conducted no further testing on that system.

WHAT WE FOUND

Prior to the first drop, we performed a baseline run of HD Tune Pro 4.01 and HDDScan 3.2. All 10

systems achieved an HD Tune Pro damaged blocks percentage of 0.0% and an HDDScan 3.2 bad blocks score

of 0, indicating that their hard drives were all in perfect condition.

Figures 1 through 3 show the HD Tune Pro and HDDScan 3.2 results for the test systems for each drop,

along with our notes, which describe any cosmetic or functional damage we observed. The Dell Latitude 2120

had minimal cosmetic damage, which we were able to correct easily, and showed only 135 bad blocks

according to HDDScan after three drops. We present the systems in order from least damaged to most

damaged. Note that the systems that stopped functioning after the first drop test in Figure 1 are greyed out in

the second and third drop test results in Figures 2 and 3. Note that the position of each system in these tables

is determined by overall ranking.

* Please note that PT tested the systems marked with an asterisk in June 2010. In this report, we compare the systems we tested in

February 2011 to these previously published results, which we reproduce here and are available at

http://www.principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/Dell/Latitude2110_netbook_durability0610.pdf.

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