With a 4-cell battery, the Sylvania G Netbook ran for 3 hours and 3 minutes on our video playback battery drain test, which beats the Atom-powered Netbooks from Acer and MSI (although MSI is moving up to a bigger 6-cell battery soon), but is nowhere near the 5-plus hours from the 9-inch Asus Eee PC (although that system costs $200 more).
Sylvania (actually a New York company called Digital Gadgets) includes an industry-standard one-year parts-and-labor warranty with the system. Support is accessible through a toll-free phone line that operates from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST Monday through Friday. The Web site offers a PDF product manual and a few simple FAQ questions and answers.
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System configurations:
Sylvania G Netbook
Linux; 1.2GHz VIA C7-M; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz; VIA UniChrome Pro IGP; 30GB Hard Disk Drive
Acer Aspire One
Linpus Linux Lite v1.0.2.E; 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270; 512MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz; Mobile Intel 945GME Express; 8GB Solid State Drive
Asus Eee PC 901
Windows XP Home Edition SP2; 1.6GHz Intel Atom; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 400MHz; 128MB Mobile Intel 945 Express; 12GB Phison Solid State Drive
MSI Wind U100-002LA
Windows XP Home Edition SP3; 1.6GHz Intel Atom; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 400MHz; 128MB Mobile Intel 945 Express; 80GB Western Digital 5400rpm
Asus Eee PC 1000
GNU Linux; 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz; Intel Mobile; 40GB Phison Solid State Drive
