We could say that Toshiba NB100 has two faces. One is nice and appealing, and it can be noticed right away. Of course we are talking about cover that looks nice, and neutral silver color makes fingerprints almost invisible despite its polished (piano) finish. Other face becomes visible when cover is opened and when we take a look at black plastic that doesn’t look that appealing as cover. Inner surfaces look somewhat cheaper compared to exterior surfaces.

Design isn’t strong point of Toshiba NB100. It’s too squarish with almost no stylish details. Overall impression is ruined by battery that awkwardly sticks out at back side. This looked very strange to us so we asked Toshiba representative why battery is designed that way and we got good the answer. They stated that because of bigger battery (more about battery little bit latter) there wasn’t better solution so they made battery in a way that netbook can be carried by holding it for battery and it won’t damage neither netbook neither battery.

Bending of cover is significant and that is another detail that surprised us on this small netbook. Despite bending of cover, picture on display wasn’t affected in any way, but we would like to say the same for display frame. Even if we applied small amount of pressure to plastic frame around display, picture was deformed with well known wavy deformations.

If you deduced from the name of Toshiba’s netbook that it has 10inch display, we must disappoint you with the fact that NB100 has 8.9inch display with resolution of 1024x600 pixels and average viewing angles. This glare type display with LED backlight didn’t make to positive impressions on us but it does its job correctly. Weight of this netbook is 1.05kg and it is one of the lightest netbooks that we saw so far.

Decent quality keyboard has keys with good stroke and feel nice under fingertips so errors in typing occurred rarely. Since Toshiba NB100 is noticeably shorter (but also wider) compared to competitors, it was logical that keys are little bit shorter. We didn’t like small Enter key and markings on keys that are hard to notice under dimmed light. Touch pad is too small and this cannot be consequence of smaller netbook dimensions. You can notice (from pictures) that plastic frame around touchpad is wider on sides and we hoped that those have some (touch sensitive) function but we were wrong: it is just a piece of plastics and nothing more. Left touchpad key is slightly larger than right one and we can say that this is very practical solution and we liked this detail.