Thursday 7 May 2009

Samsung NC10 Review

When I finished my last job I handed back the company laptop which I used at home and within a day I was missing it as I had to keep going upstairs every time I wanted to check my email so decided to put my collection money and some of the redundancy cash to good use and I purchased a Samsung NC10 Netbook.

I have been using it for a month or so now and thought I'd write a quick review and post some photos.

It's an excellent little netbook and the battery life is fantastic. On a full charge I've been able to get well over 5 hours of usage. I thought that with only a 10.2" 1024x600 resolution screen it would be a little too small but it's actually fine for most tasks and is very portable at only 1.33kg.

The keyboard is a good size and great to type on and the mouse track pad is small but perfectly formed - scrolling functions work well as do the gestures for zooming etc. The only things I can say against the keyboard is that you have to press the Fn key to access the Home and End commands which can be a little annoying and the right shift key is pretty small but you soon get used to it.

Other features include a 1.3MP integrated webcam which seems to perform well even in poor light conditions and a SD memory card slot which is useful to have for instant reviewing or backing up of photos whilst on the move.

I upgraded the shipped 1GB of RAM up to 2GB which helps it along and the netbook is quick to start up and get online. Processor hungry operations such as editing hi resolution photos can be a little slow but for most day to day operations and surfing the web it performs well.

Pros
  • Very light and extremely mobile

  • Excellent battery life

  • Screen is bright and very clear

  • Speakers which are very good considering their size

  • Very quiet

  • Good build quality

  • Easy to setup with clear instructions


    • Cons
  • Screen can be a little small depending what you are doing you sometimes have to scroll quite a bit

  • No integrated SIM slot for mobile broadband

  • No optical drive


    • All in all I think this is a good little netbook and well worth the price of just over £300 which I paid on www.ebuyer.com







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    Posted by Sion at 11:35
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    2 comments:

    Jez - NC10 Community said...

    Just doing my usual NC10 searches and came across your little review, thanks for sharing it. I can't believe you found any cons though ;)! hehe no I think they are fair points although I have not missed having an optical drive at all. It's all bluetooth, wifi and USB for me these days :)!

    8 May 2009 at 13:55
    Sion said...

    Hi Jez,

    Thanks for your comment. I'm pretty much bluetooth, wifi and USB too these days but the optical drive was an issue once when I wanted to install a game...I got round it fairly easily but thought it was worth mentioning for the less technically minded people.

    I will check out the sammynetbook.com site.

    8 May 2009 at 16:33

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