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I work during the day and go to school at night. My job requires 24hr remote access and I quickly tired of carrying around a 15" laptop along with my books. The first netbooks I came across piqued my interest but had received dismal reviews from fellow students. I'm so happy I waited for the Samsung NC10 and am fully satisfied!! I immediately upgraded to 2GB of RAM and installation was super easy. The screen is crisp and clear, and WIFI connection works flawlessy. It even picked up signal from a location where my full-size laptop cannot. I downloaded Cisco VPN and am able to remote into my work network faster than with my laptop. I was also able to download office from the Microsoft website without incident. Battery life is great and I can leave my charger at home. The keyboard is nearly full-size with all the keys in the right place - took zero time to adjust.

Overall, the Samsung NC10 is a fast, hard-working machine wrapped in a sleek, light-weight, package. The pink is softer than it appears in pictures and keeps it from looking cartoonish (prefer this shade over my pink Dell). I definitely recommend this product to anyone looking for an alternative to carrying around a bulky laptop!!Get more detail about Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-Inch Blue Netbook - 6 Cell Battery.

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After exhaustive research on this site, youtube, and other sites, I decided on the Samsung NC10 in white. One essential piece of information is that the Acer Aspire One is only 2.3 lbs with the original 3-cell battery: any machine with a 6-cell is going to weigh just short of 3 lbs. The Vaio P series is the only comparable machine that's significantly lighter, and everything I read suggested it wasn't as nimble or capacious as any of these netbooks, and it's nearly 4 times the price.

So I bought it, and I've had it for a few weeks now. Here's what I've experienced so far:

Pros:
Fun, clicky keyboard
Phenomenal battery life
Decent processor speed - websites load relatively quickly
Very easy to upgrade memory to 2gb
Excellent hard drive size
Excellent connectivity - picks up all signals in range
Lightweight and compact
Built-in camera for Skype and other webcam programs
Built-in Bluetooth (though I haven't figured out how to make use of it yet)

Cons:
Screen is adequate color- and brightness-wise, but not brilliant
Mousepad is fussy - surface is not extremely responsive, and a weird icon keeps popping up that I still haven't figured out (looks like a little purple whorl)
VGA port does not have screw holes (it just plugs in with the pins), so when I was unsuccessful in connecting an external monitor, I couldn't tell if it was the connection that was problematic, or the monitor.

It does exactly what I bought it to do: it's a lightweight (though not featherweight), small netbook that lasts me all day when I'm at work. I was able to load Microsoft Office through a USB-connected CD drive that I own as part of another laptop package, but if I hadn't had that I'd have tried openoffice.com.

I love the white - it kind of feels like I'm using a tiny Mac - and the chassis feels very solid and well-built. Even though it's small, I'm finding I prefer using this computer to either my desktop or my bigger laptop, but that may partly be because I have very small hands. I honestly don't know what would make me like it more than I do except maybe a screen with higher resolution and the whole package in under 2 lbs, but I have a hunch that won't be available for quite a few more years. In the meantime, it's a great little machine for an incredibly decent price. Hope this helps! Get more detail about Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-Inch Blue Netbook - 6 Cell Battery.

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I have never owned a laptop, let alone a netbook, so the Samsung NC-10 was a whole new computing experience for me. And while I have more than just a few years of experience with personal computers, including my early years with Apple - my company made a decision years ago to go with PC's and not Apple - transitioning over to a netbook had me more than a little scared. I am a touch typist, maybe not a very good one but one nevertheless, and I wondered how difficult it would be to get use to the Samsung keyboard; in a word "easy." The keys have a great feel, and in some ways the closeness of the keys to one another actually seem to work better than a standard keyboard.

Okay, the keyboard worked out very well; now the touchpad, keeping in mind I didn't have any real history with touchpads, my experience can best be described as a bull in a China Shop - if the thing was an airplane, I couldn't taxi, let alone fly the darn thing. I read some reviews that said to decrease the size of the reserved space for auto-scrolling and that helped to a degree, but the real solution was the purchase of Microsoft's Explorer Mini Mouse with blue laser; now I can navigate almost any web page, spreadsheet or Word document at warp speed -problem solved for 39 dollars.

Next I upgraded the memory to 2 Gig, which was pretty easy, but here is a hint for people like me that don't know too much about replacing computer memory components: there is one screw that is removed to gain access to the memory card; then you have to gently push out the plastic retaining clips that hold the card in place. Once released the card will pop upward at about a 45 degree angle; simply align the card with the connection slots and gently pull out - reverse the process for the installation of the 2 Gig card.

The next thing I got the NC-10 14 was the Targus external DVD/CD Rom drive that is powered through the USB ports on the netbook; here is another helpful hint, you need to plug in both USB connectors to provide the external drive with adequate power. One of the USB connectors has a pass-through that allows another USB device to connect to the port, such as a camera or IPOD.

Overall the performance of the NC-10 has been excellent. It executes programs and connects to my wireless network faster than my Dell PC's. I have also linked it to my cell phone through the Blue tooth connection, and I guess that I could use the available modem if I ever were in a place that only had cellular service. The one last item is that I have finally started to use the function keys, such as screen brightness, battery life remaining, full screen view, volume control, etc.

Well, hopefully I added something to your selection process that was useful - I will end by saying that I am very happy with the NC-10 14, and the only thing that I would change is that I would have bought the special edition that is now available. Get more detail about Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-Inch Blue Netbook - 6 Cell Battery.