The tablet everyone is talking about this week is the iPad, of course, but Sony VGP-BPS13A/B Battery there are still some hopes and dreams to be found outside of the slate PC market. Convertibles like the Viliv S10 Blade offer more than what the iPad can provide — a real OS, a keyboard, ports — and if you just compared specs would surpass the iPad by a wide margin. Sadly, in the case of this particular convertible, the usage didn’t live up to the specs.
When we first saw the S10 Fujitsu Laptop Battery Blade at CES we were impressed enough with the sleek, netbook/tablet to give it a Best good battery Of award. Once we finally got our hands on it for the full review all of the things we liked about it were still there, yet outweighed by the flaws only testing and use could bring out.
Opinions on the S10 varied across reviews, and it looks like our good friends at UMPC Portal and JKKMobile ended up liking the HP/Compaq Laptop Battery S10 more than our friends at CrunchGear.
UMPC Portal: Chippy wrote, “The S10 is another high quality product from Viliv Sony PCGA-BP2V and a convertible netbook with features and options that very few other devices can match. Battery life is fantastic for a 1.2KG device and the style makes the S10 even more unique. We question the usefulness of multitouch for the average user and feel that 1.2KG is too heavy for long-duration tablet use but at the end of the day, there’s no significant disadvantage to having multitouch or a tablet-capable design.”
JKKMobile: JKK said, “The tablet action Sony VGP-BPL9 is really nice and smooth. …it’s more powerful than many other devices in this scale. It’s really nice looking, really good quality. Good keyboard. And it has plenty of options… Always a good thing… Performance enough for many things. Really nice to surf and relax on the sofa in tablet mode.” Also of note: his review unit included the 2.0-GHz Atom Z550 CPU while other reviews are based on the 1.6-GHz Sony VGP-BPS13 processor.
CrunchGear: Matt Burns wrote that “I hate it when a product like the Viliv S10 Blade Sony VGP-BPS2B Battery looks so good as a concept but fails to live up to its potential. …while I’d love to tell you that the S10 is a viable slate alternative, I can’t. The bad screen hinge is that big of a deal in my mind. It not only contributes to the cheap feel, but also seriously limits the S10’s ability as a tablet as there’s no way to confidently keep the netbook in tablet mode without the aid of a latch or locking mechanism. It’s a fine Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad R51E Battery netbook with the normal mediocre performance that an Atom CPU offers, but don’t Sony VGP-BPS9/S Batterythink that the S10 is the best of both the netbook and tablet worlds.”
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