Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-Inch Blue Netbook - 6 Cell Battery Immediately

Look no further! No HP, no Acer, no Dell! This is the one!

Have had my dark blue NC10 for a couple of weeks. Just to see if netbooks of this size are good enough to be a primary computer, as soon as I got it I transferred all my data from my 15.5" Lenovo. Cutting to the chase, the NC10 is absolutely up to primary usage. The screen is big enough, the keyboard layout and feedback are better than my Lenovo (and Compaq), it is quiet, the battery life is exceptional (got about seven hours out of a charge, and can do normal work stuff, sleeping in between, from 8A-8P on a single charge), is capacious enough, is fast enough, looks much better in person due to the quality of the materials and finish, and is built well. I got a Logitech wireless mouse with a very small "NANO RECIEVER" USB dongle and now I am unstoppable! Soft of.

Only two things I have minor issues with: 1) The finish on the top (screen side), though really of very high quality and very attractive, is a fingerprint magnet. I've seen better ways to handle this on most of HP's notebooks, 2) I wish there was a factory-backed way to replace XP with a good version of Linux, like Ubuntu. Samsung will not support any Linux version and does not provide drivers.

The NC10 can handle up to 2GB of RAM, but it does not say that in nearly all of the literature and descriptions. It has only one memory slot, so you have to buy a single 2GB stick, not 2x1GB. You can find 'em for $25, as I did, and am looking forward to seeing what happens. From other reports I've seen, it should speed things up. Samsung is a bit coy about this because in the warranty verbiage there is a "back door" for them if something goes wrong with the unit after you actually open it and replace the memory stick; the owner gets stuck. Don't know why they don't give the resellers the okeedoke to make the memory an option.

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Im a really educated buyer, i spend lots of time reading lots of review before I buy something. This netbook is the best that i could find, it has it all, the larger screen (1 inch more) it makes a huge difference. It has the same specs as all the other netbooks 1gb ram, 1.6 ghz atom, 160 gb hard drive, It also has bluetooth.

Plus it looks nicer, alot nicer my friends have the aspire one's and they want to take their minis back, i have seen the hp's the dells' and the acers, this one looks better.

It just looks more professional
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I wish Amazon let me rate it 4.5 / 5 because that's what it should get.

I bought an Acer Aspire One recently, and was really disappointed in a few things with it. The keyboard was too small, the trackpad was ridiculously small and the track pad buttons we're even worse (being on the side).

Pros:

This Samsung is beautiful, almost perfect in my eyes. I'm getting a solid 6+ hours of usage out of it on a single charge. The screen is a beautiful hard-to-get matte finish, the case has a nice metallic shine to it. It's plently fast, boots very quick. The keyboard is fantastic. The overall finish to the whole product is SOLID and very clean. The inside of the display and around the keyboard is a fingerprint resistant matte finish. It also comes with almost zero bloat-ware. The only thing you really should uninstall is the McAffe antivirus software.

Cons (all minor):

1. I wish the outside case was more of a matte finish so it didn't attract fingerprints.

2. The trackpad could of been a tiny big bigger (there's more room between the trackpad and the keyboard, use it!)

3. The trackpad button is a rocker style, making right clicks kind of weird feeling the left side of the button raise up in the air.

4. It has an SD memory card reader, but where's the compact flash reader?

5. The power connector shouldn't stick straight out, it should have a 90 degree bend in it.

6. Why does the factory setup give you two partitions? I have a C and a D drive both around 70 megabytes in size. Not a huge problem, but annoying down the road if I'm splitting up data (e.g. music) across drives.

This is a fantastic machine, the cons I've listed are all very minor, and only what I'd change to make this the perfect netbook for me. It's substantially better than the Acer Aspire One in many ways, although it's also more expensive.

Highly recommended! Now we'll have to see how the reliability is of the hardware down the road (3 months, 6 months, 1 year).
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