  We make a comparative study of hard x-ray emission from 15 $\mu$m methanol
microdroplets and a plain slab target of similar atomic composition at similar
laser intensities. The hard X-ray yield from droplet plasmas is $\simeq$ 35
times more than that obtained from solid plasmas. A prepulse that is about 10ns
and about 5% of the main pulse is essential for hard x-ray generation from the
droplets.
  A hot electron temperature of 36 keV is measured from the droplets at
8$\times10^{14}$ W cm$^{-2}$; three times higher intensity is needed to obtain
similar hot electron temperature from solid plasmas with similar composition.
We use 1D PIC simulation to obtain qualitative correlation to the experimental
observations.
