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From: undisclosed on 9 Sep 2009 13:54 Hi everybody, I'm thinking about buying a Samsung NC10 netbook, but I want some extra info about the battery lenght and about the keyboard and maybe some good or bad experiences with this netbook. I found this site where you can win a 'free samsung NC10 ' (http://www.qwikwin.co.uk)and I'm trying there because there's no lose but in purchasing things I need to think more about my decisions and I want to know if the NC10 it's a good one. Thanks :smile: -- vconrad
From: Charlie Hoffpauir on 9 Sep 2009 15:57 On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 18:54:39 +0100, undisclosed wrote: > >Hi everybody, I'm thinking about buying a Samsung NC10 netbook, but I >want some extra info about the battery lenght and about the keyboard and >maybe some good or bad experiences with this netbook. I found this site >where you can win a 'free samsung NC10 ' (http://www.qwikwin.co.uk)and >I'm trying there because there's no lose but in purchasing things I need >to think more about my decisions and I want to know if the NC10 it's a >good one. Thanks :smile: I just bought one from Amazon, and so far I like it fine. The display is great, and battery life is probably what they advertise, although I haven't had it long enough to really tell. The keyboad has a good "touch" but of course, it is smaller than the keyboard on my desktop computer. I don't like those touchpads that laptops use, so I added a USB/laser mouse (Logitech V450) and it works great. My total cost was US$ 359.20 for the computer and mouse (329.95 for the computer and 29.95 for the mouse) and free shipping.
From: jack on 10 Sep 2009 23:44 On Sep 10, 1:54 am, undisclosed wrote: > Hi everybody, I'm thinking about buying a Samsung NC10 netbook, but I > want some extra info about the battery lenght and about the keyboard and > maybe some good or bad experiences with this netbook. I found this site > where you can win a 'free samsung NC10 ' and > I'm trying there because there's no lose but in purchasing things I need > to think more about my decisions and I want to know if the NC10 it's a > good one. Thanks :smile: > > -- > vconrad See Here : http://www.batteries4laptop.co.uk/samsung-nc10-battery.htm And YOu can see the netbook battery life : http://www.batteries4laptop.co.uk/blog/?p=8 samsung nc10 have a long battery life .
From: Larry on 11 Sep 2009 01:52 undisclosed wrote in news:58d9c9a23cefa4ac02c8f93080f711be(a)nntp- gateway.com: > I want to know if the NC10 it's a > good one. Thanks :smile: > Best laptop I ever owned. I have the 9-cell, 7800 maH battery in mine: http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-nc10-9-cell-battery-boosts-runtime-by- 50-12-hours-0232667/ it adds a tube to the battery pack that makes a nice little stand to tilt the keyboard towards you a few degrees. Best thing about this design is it also RAISES the air intake off the desk's surface so the cooling fan isn't sucking every tiny dust mote into the bottom air intake holes. It also stands the bottom off soft surfaces so the little netbook gets cooling air, even perched on my bed watching a DivX movie off alt.binaries.movies.divx. Some webpages manage to trash the multitouch gestures of the touchpad....and I can't seem to stop it under Firefox. THE WORST OF IT - SPEAKERS! Plan on using an external battery-powered set of speakers if you must use speakers with the NC10. Samsung's internal speakers have NO BAFFLE and are located in tiny, closed-back tubes that won't let the tiny round speakers breathe! It's sheer stupidity! The audio drivers for the audio chipset, however, comes with a little popup screen that asks if you have just plugged in headphones, non-powered speakers, or want line out levels for your external amp and what kind of audio output you want it to generate (mono, stereo, 5- channel stereo encoding), which works very nice. It's just the internal speakers, themselves, or, more correctly, their lack of proper baffles that renders them USELESS, totally USELESS. Everything else in this netbook works great....well, as great as WinXPSP3 ever works on anything. I've reparted the 160GB hard drive and dual boot the original WinXPSP3 and Ubuntu Linux, which is a considerable improvement and much more pleasing to the eyes. Ubuntu runs first class on the little N270 1.6Ghz processor. I swapped the stupid Windows-imposed 1GB memory stick for a 2GB, all it supports, the day I got it. I paid $US20 for it from buy.com. All XP netbooks are hobbled with 1GB of memory. Some you can't change, however. Samsung makes this one screw and a pop-out standard 200-pin memory stick connector on the bottom. The BEST FEATURE of the NC10 isn't being extended to the NC20, the stupids. NC10 has a TOTALLY NON-REFLECTIVE LCD screen and the plastic surround around it....NO MIRRORS reflecting back in your face. Every glossy laptop/iPhone/TV owner is envious when this is pointed out to them. Glossy sucks sitting outdoors or in a brightly lit restaurant! I will never own a glossy-screened device ever again! NC10's picture is beautiful! It's larger keyboard is much more friendly than other netbooks who sacrifice keyboard size for touchpad size. The little multitouch touchpad works great, even with my fat meathooks. The scroll bar multitouches into the main touchpad area as a mouse wheel if you don't lift your finger making scrolling through long webpages a pleasure. two finger gestures are cute but not that useful...unless some iPhone owner is watching, of course...(c;] I wouldn't trade my NC10 for the NC20 or any other netbook out there. I don't even have to do any "power saving" nonsense with this big battery. It's simply left running wide open all day....even playing movies/music/streaming video/etc. while multitasking other jobs. One more tip. The Motorola S9HD bluetooth stereo headset pairs with both handsfree (with controls for Skype) and A2DP stereo for your movies and music FIRST CLASS with the NC10's really nice Bluetooth transceiver. Range is FURTHER than the 10 meter BT specification, so you can hear the stereo wandering around your house only balking if you get really far away. The S9HD/NC10 pair make stereo that sounds like the biggest DJ sound system you ever saw...Noiseless, PAINFULLY LOUD, virtually distortion free. I highly recommend the Motorola S9HD for use with it. You don't need speakers in public, anyways. I've had the NC10 bluetooth tethered to a Motorola Z6m but Bluetooth is too slow for broadband. Tether the phone and headset and internet bandwidth drops to HALF...useless. Tethered to the USB port on the phone was great. But, The Borg (Verizon Wireless) sucked up my Alltel and screwed up the bandwidth awful (on purpose?) so I fired them. I now am my own wifi hotspot using one of these: http://www.mycricket.com/broadband/ plugged into this router: http://3gstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=35 &products_id=610 which is powered by four 11AH Maha Powerex monster D-cells in series: http://www.mahaenergy.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=342 with tabs welded onto them in a neat little 2x2 battery pack that will run 24/7 for a few days between chargings with my homebrew 10A NiMh quickcharger (90 minutes from dead). The router wants 5V but runs fine at 4-6VDC. The NC10 LOVES the Cricket Hotspot/LAN built into the portable DVD player leather case I use to transport my NC10 around safely. Having my own wireless LAN also allows my Nokia N800 Linux tablets and Netgear SPH100 candy bar Skype wifi phone to share the USB modem's unlimited service. The N800's dual 16GB SDHC memory cards and the NC10's 160GB hard drive are all network drives on the router's LAN so sharing files, moving files is easy. It's fast enough that I can watch a full sized DivX movie on mplayer on the little tablet using the movie off the NC10's hard drive, while using the NC10 for other useful stuff like daytrading the stock market for fun and profit. NC10 supports the LAN sharing as good as any other WinXP or Ubuntu Linux box. Do be kind to any Mac Air users trying to look through the glitzy glossy screen to see the movie behind the image of their face and the trees behind them, ok?....(c;] -- Larry
From: Larry on 11 Sep 2009 02:08 Charlie Hoffpauir <invalid(a)invalid.com> wrote in news:hp1ga5dbcbm61ee07onrrua7o8a5n6iphb(a)4ax.com: > The keyboad has a good "touch" but of course, it is smaller than the > keyboard on my desktop computer. I don't like those touchpads that > laptops use, so I added a USB/laser mouse (Logitech V450) and it works > great. > I bought this from these guys in Taiwan: http://www.fidohub.com/product.php?prod_id=56&sort3= The step-by-step installation instructions are not "easy" but very doable with no soldering. The worst of it is taking apart the right side top hinge as you cannot feed the touchscreen's edge connector through the slot where the two wifi/bluetooth coax cables go to connect the touchscreen to its USB/interface board you simply stick to the motherboard with double-sided tape. If you add this touchkit to the NC10...align the touchscreen to the LCD screen a tiny, very tiny big down and to the right a mm to ensure the windows bar and webpage slidebars are adequately covered as the touchscreen does not function all the way to its edge....just a fraction, a mm is fine. The only detractor the touchkit caused me is a personal hatred of glossy screens. The touchkit is glass and does cause you to lose some of the non-glare beauty of the NC10's screen. However...having a REAL, highly precise, 25-calibration-point first class touchscreen is just WONDERFUL and worth a little glare tolerance! $98. Before you order, here's the instructions to read FIRST.... http://netbookmag.com/2009/02/03/tutorial-samsung-nc10-touchscreen- installation/ You simply unplug the camera from its motherboard USB port and insert the touchkit's board between the camera (on one of its THREE extra USB ports!) and the motherboard port. The camera shares the USB port with the touchkit just fine....no video balking detected. I video Skype a lot. Anyone who can get the popped-together case apart and use a screwdriver without stabbing themselves can put this touchkit into the NC10...carefully! NERD MAGNET Everyone I meet loves to see the touchscreen NC10(T?) in action...Mice suck. Even comes with a nice combo stylus/ball point pen.... The touchpad/multitouch function unmolested by the touchscreen's separate driver. I see no difference in battery loading, either. -- Larry
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