This review is seriously flawed. The author only reviews the Live USB version, and is disappointed that the distro is using 320Mb of RAM (!). And claims it do

This review is seriously flawed. The author only reviews the Live USB version, and is disappointed that the distro is using 320Mb of RAM (!). And claims it doesn't feel faster than Gnome. The distro will tend to use whatever RAM is available (as it should). LXDE is -absolutely- much snappier than Gnome on an older system, but the reviewer is presumably on a system that is "too fast" to show that. The reviewer should have (a) installed it, (b) used a slow machine with a couple different levels of RAM for fair comparisons (e.g., 512Mb and 1Gb -- while 256Mb will work, it will start swapping once Firefox is in use, and 256Mb of RAM is very rare even on very old machines like the one I'm using now, which is 5 years old and has 512Mb of RAM soldered to the motherboard).