It doesn't have Bluetooth, but I carry a nice pair of headphones with me anyway, and have my music in high-quality FLAC files, so I don't have a problem with that. With LibreOffice Writer, a cloud storage service (I use MegaSync) and a light web browser ( Midori's good), it is still a useful and easy-to-transport machine. I'm not crazy about the touchpad, but, for its size, the keyboard is superb. It boots in under a minute and the screen still looks amazingly good: one of the advantages of an old-style TFT screen. Everything works (you need an ethernet connection for the installation as you have to download and activate the WiFi driver after installing the OS) and it is a remarkably efficient writing and browsing machine. Instead, I have used a variety of Linux OSs, settling upon Lubuntu. It has an old-style Atom processor and on-board graphics and, while it was okay with Windows XP, it never really worked with W7. I bought mine in 2010, refurbished, from Dell and have only had to replace the battery: I bought a six cell one two years ago which has proved to be excellent, and it only cost me £40 (maybe $55). I have found the mini 10 to be a robust and reliable machine. I realise you asked this question several years ago and you probably don't even use the Mini 10 anymore, but I thought I would answer, in case anyone else has one lying around. If people are unhappy with the 1018 then get a bigger laptop! My Dell runs better than I ever expected but then I've had computers since the days of the 8088 cpu and DOS 3.2! Yes, I build and refurbish computers for my Royal British Legion Branch members in Northumberland. I don't have any start-up services disabled and mine runs just fine. If people would bear in mind the small size of the duel-core Atom cpu, then waiting the odd very few seconds for a programme to load then there is no problem. I of course, have a Win 5 3rd gen Dell laptop with 8GB RAM which I use as well and my desktop unit which is an AMD Phenom II x 6 core with a 250GB SSD drive and 8GB RAM. The battery lasts for many hours by the way. The latest K-Lite codec pack is also installed and I'm able to watch all movies when I travel, irrespective of the codec used to compress them and I have no starts & stops which some people seem to have. It runs Windows 7 basic with all Windows updates, Kaspersky Internet Security2014, some Office 2010 programmes (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and has my Epson Wi-Fi printer drivers installed. I use my 1018 to take notes when I visit clients as I'm a Royal British Legion Welfare Case Worker.

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