Samsung NC10 - with 6 cell battery (Netbook) Reviews: Windows XP Home 10.2" Screen Laptop computer

+ Excellent design, very sleek and contemporary. Windows XP (CANT STAND VISTA!). Does everything you need but in a pint sized design. Very easy to take everywhere, watch video / listen to music on trains etc

- Not a particularly good carry case. Flimsy. Doesnt close. Nowhere to secure it and carry it, have to hold it in your hand.
No CD / DVD drive (obviously that would ruin the design, but a little slide in DVD drive would have been a real bonus like on the dell 1300).

+ Compact design but with an almost full sized keyboard. Good battery life and large HDD.

- Wifi chipset not compatible with my router - apparently a known issue on some forums. Also the disk partitioning default setting left just 40GB of the 160GB available on for the C drive. Very poor - suggest you manually select the partition during setup. Beware you only have one opportunity to do this.

+ In my opinion, this is easily the best value notebook/netbook on the market at present. Fantastic battery life and almost full size keyboard make the Samsung NC10 a pleasure to work with. I use for work and personal usage, I can pull over at the local services, grab a coffee and check up on my Ebay deals whilst connected to the numerous free wi-fi spots littered across the country.

- The only fault I could mention if I was really pushed is the shiny lid (I chose the blue colour which I personally thought was a bit different to the usual black or white) which is very easy to mark with fingerprints. This is only being very 'picky' as I couldn't think of any other faults!

+ it has almost every thing that a standered entry level laptop has, but it is smaller and lighter. it is a good looking notebook, the wi fi and bluetooth also go along way to make the laptop a true portable work tool

- well if i had to the only thing i could fault it on is the lack of a cd/dvd drive

+ Fast, lightweight and easy to use

- Restarts several times and installs a load of rubbish software on first start-up. Screen is just a little bit too small vertically.

+ When I was researching the Netbooks on the market, I found they tended to fall into two groups; 1)Nice keyboard. Shame about the screen.
2) Nice screen, shame about the keyboard. I eventually realised that if I was going to live with the device for any period of time, I had better fork out the little bit extra for the Samsung NC10. For the size of netbook, the keyboard is superb. Unlike many of it's rivals, the NC10's 'RETURN' key is an inversed "L". This makes typing much easier. It was one of the main reasons for buying this unit.
The screen is also excellent. The brightness is lovely & punchy. The screen surface is slightly matt to reduce reflection. If you like your battery life long, let the supplied power-save programme controll the screen. It will run at full brightness when on mains power. But when on battery, it will dim the screen slightly and then dim it further after a period of non use. As a result, the already high powered battery gives excellent performance. The lid on the blue model has a lovely gloss finnish. Considdering it has a traditional hard drive, the NC10 is surprisingly quiet. The ram can be upgraded via a small access panel and the power pack is a nice size too. I have used it for about an hour every day and I can safely say I made the right decision.

- The battery (although a nice shape) adds weight. But you cannot change the laws of physics! A better battery is a heavier battery. My previous laptop was a desk-top emulating beast. So the NC10 does not really offend. Samsung have used a relatively proprietry power socket. This limits your choice of car chargers ect... At least on the high street anyway. It's lovely that Samsung has supplied a free case, but a little bit of padding, on the bottom at least would have made it perfect.

+ Battery life amazing, keyboard comfortable, styling good, screen good

- Minor gripes only: Mouse trackpad customisation (zoom, scrolling) does not work particularly well so I turned off, laptop is very back heavy i.e. tilts backwards if using on knees and screen is tilted far back - not a problem if using on a flat surface

+ Battery life excellent - will run for over 7 hours on full charge with light use, eg. surfing or word-processing.
Screen is clear, evenly lit, bright and glare resistant.
Sound through headphones is excellent.
Keyboard is almost full size, and very nice to type on. My typing on this keyboard is actually slightly faster and more accurate than on a full-sized keyboard. Keys are sensibly positioned eg. 'CTRL' is bottom left, 'Enter' key is good size and right-shift is easily found; much better than the keyboards on any other netbooks I looked at.
Can be left on standby by closing lid and returned to the following day with no apparent loss of battery life - an excellent machine.
SD / SD HC card slot useful for data backups.
Wireless connection quick to connect from boot-up and has good range.
There are numerous reviews of the NC10 on the web, mostly very positive; I haven't been disappointed.

- Balance is slightly off - tends to tip backwards unless you support it correctly to compensate. Having used for a couple of weeks now though I soon adjusted to this and no longer find it a problem.
Speakers are a bit weedy, but good enough for general use. If I want to listen to music then I generally use headphones anyway.
No CD / DVD drive, but if you have another PC on your wireless network you can share the drives on that machine with the NC10 for data and applications.

+ Bought this for my son and he is overjoyed! Got it in Blue which looks really cool. Light yet feels well made. Webcam great, screen great - really love it. May buy another one for myself

- Not come across any yet.

+ Everything. Lives up to all the claims made in the advertising.
The keyboard is at least as good as my main one on a Dell Inspiron 9300. Performance is excellent. Runs OpenOffice3.org with no discernable hesitation or delay. WiFi good and fast. Inclusion of 7 'state' indicators (Caps, WiFi, etc). Clear marking of all connections and indicators.

- None.
As always, even better battery life would be an improvement! Also, a larger track-pad, although the one supplied is good and responsive.

+ Small and light, excellent battery life, good screen, quality build.

- None yet.

+ very attractive functional net book with excellent battery life. I have upgraded the OS to windows 7, and upgraded RAM to 2Gb, bought a leather case and I finally extremely satisfied with my purchase. Also purchased logitech Bluetooth mouse which compensates slightly for the small trackpad. Very nice keyboard facilities and supplied samsung battery manager software gets the most out of the good battery.

- Small trackpad, antiquated OS, 10.2" screen required a lot of scrolling and the processor struggles with BBC iplayer.

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- it would been better if it came with 2gb of ram, now i need to upgrade the ram

+ Everything! It's small enought to be very portable, but large enough to see the screen and type properly. The battery regularly lasts 5-6 hours, even whilst playing a movie.
Screen quality is amazing, especially for movie watching

- Nothing really. Slip-case that is provided is no protection - buy yourself a decent neoprene case.

+ excellent performance, easy to set up and a pleasure to use

- mouse button can be fiddly, get an external USB one and no issue

+ very good battery life+ portability

- page can be slow to refresh +touchpad seems to have a life of it own wireless mouse overcomes the problem

+ Excellent Keyboard - big enough to use comfortably; big hard drive and lots of RAM compared to other similar sized models; ultra-portable, but doesn't feel uncomfortably small when using; looks like a proper lap-top just mini sized, rather than like a toy.

- Lack of CD ROM/DVD drive... but has to be sacrificed for size, and it's not really a problem unless you have a large CD collection you want to import or something similar.

+ Size & weight means its very portable, have been down the pub with it a few times!
Design is great.
Screen is a good size.
Battery life is good which is fortunate as I'm spending much more time on it than I previously did on our home computer due to it being so mobile.
Overall its a fantastic piece of kit

- Mouse pad can be a little tricky at times but just takes getting used to.
Otherwise, no bad points at all.

+ size, battery life

- nil

+ The keyboard is of an excellent design for a netbook; almost as easy to type as a full size laptop.
Screen is 10.2 inches, easily readable and of a highl quality.
The battery is absolutely excellent compared to other netbooks; almost 7 hours.
It runs XP as quickly as my three year old desktop PC. The wireless is also very good.
Hard drive of 160 GB is more than ample.
It is the best designed netbook I have used, and is far ahead of the competition, and excellent value for what it offers.

- No significant bad points; though I could be a bit picky and say the speakers are not as good as those on the Asus eee, or that there is no draft wireless N, but all in all, this a great netbook.

+ Incredible battery life - around 6 hours between charges, brilliant screen (for a netbook,) top spec (again for a netbook.) Comes with excellent restore software that helps if Windows won't start or if you want to do a full restore.
Doesn't come with too many unnecessary applications (bloatware).

- Trackpad can be a bit fiddly. You'll get used to it pretty quickly if you use it a lot.

+ Battery life is fantastic, ideal for when you are on the move. In its pouch you can safely transport in your usual bag.

- scroll pad a little small - an additional mouse soon gives you complete control though

+ Great little machine with good performance running Windows XP. The machine is very sleek and solidly built with a high quality keyboard. Screen performance is top notch and brilliant for watching downloaded TV. All in all I am very happy with it.

- There is a slightly annoying scroll feature on the mouse pad but I assume this can be turned off. (I just need to work out how to do it.)

+ Too many to list herre, but definitely the battery life; I've had over 7.5hrs so far...and performance; I've played a number of video's and not a single judder - oh and the keyboard, excellent for sucha little puter!

- Right shift key could be a little bigger, but it didn't take long to get used to it and the scroll mouse catches me out from time to time.

+ Fast, small, good screen, nice keyboard.

- The bobbly bits (feet) on the bottom did into your lap a bit.
The wireless network sometimes locks up, and you need to remove the battery o fix this.

+ Excellent battery life; I use it to take notes in lectures and I can get through a whole day on battery alone and still have hours of battery life left. It's one of few netbooks that come with Windows XP rather than Linux. It's very stylish, the NC10 I purchased was a pearl-like off white and looks stunning--way more attractive than alternatives. The keyboard size is perfect as it is almost full-size and doesn't take much getting used to in comparison to a full-size notebook.

- The touchpad is a bit small.

+ Small, fairly light, bluetooth, plays HL1 engined games great and Deus Ex. Office 2007 is awful because of the clunky design but Office 2003 is fine. Can run many programs at once...even Adobe Lightroom!
Win XP and included the fabric pouch thing end up making this a good buy if you only have a desktop. If you've already got a laptop don't bother.

- Low resolution and processing power but still a great thing to have if you don't already have a laptop.

+ Brilliant notebook...never known anything to load up so fast....love it!

- none!

+ Does what it says on the box. Light, good battery life, powerful enough to run most applications. Just don't expect it to perform like a quad core with a 22 inch screen. It is what it is and it does what a net book should; very well.

- Only bad point, so far, is the 'case/cover': a) it doesn't fit into it and b) it would protect it against dust - not a lot else.

+ Chose the NC10 for extended battery life compared to its competitors.
Very pleased overall with the purchase.

- It is not the lightest netbook and the mousepad button to left click takes some getting use to

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- little or no instructions, couldn't get on internet until i bought external cd drive and router, no word processer

+ Very compact, light and stylish

- Does not have a cd / DVD drive.

+ Excellent netbook. Looks great and performs like a dream.

- Slighty heavier than some due to larger battery, but more than compensated for by the 10 hours battery like.

+ Small, lightweigh, fast, easy to handle

- I think it needs something to use to pull the screen up and down. I feel like I am going to damage it each time I open it. A small catch or something would be great.

+ Battery Life excellent at over 6 hours.

- Ram upgrade would help performance
Trackpad small if you have large fingers

+ Compact, good battery life

- Shiny case shows all the fingerprints

+ Great little netbook and that 10in screen really makes the difference for me (over some rivals). Battery life is staggering and again, a difference maker. Very pleased.

- It's heavier than you might expect for its size, my compact work laptop (Dell Latitude D430) feels lighter. Lack of optical drive makes things a little fiddly but true of all netbooks.

+ Excellent Keyboard design, very easy to get used to.

- Small mousepad, easily gotten used to though. When in battery-max mode and running off the battery, system goes into standby for 5 minutes then wakes up and goes into hibernation, personally I find it a little annoying as there is no way of changing this.

+ Light, portable, battery life is good, design is excellent. Very easy to set up and wireless connection is brilliant

- Not really a big issue, but the keyboard needs a little getting used to.
Also the partioning of the disk could be made more 'in your face' rather then being hidden

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- no cd drive only problem , im sure one could have been fitted

+ Keyboard slightly better thn Advent4211
Good screen
Superb battery life - I can go to the library and work without the extra weight of a spare battery

- Don't like the one off hard disk partitioning.

+ Excellent battery lift (8+ hours)
Small, lightweight. Good screen

- Ideally a catch to close the lid, and rocker type buttons on the mouse pad isnt the best, but thats being really picky...

+ excellent screen and keyboard, quick to start, looks good.

- still a bit heavy

+ I love thescrren size I think a smaller one would have been to small to work with, the resolution is very good. The keyboard is a nice size. .

- Although I use the mousepad on my laptop without problem I cannot get on with the one on the Samsung netbook so use an external mouse. Overall I am very pleased with the netbook.

+ Keyboard is ideal for people who can touch type. Love the choice of colours - blue is my favourite! It is still small and light enough to carry around with out any problems. It is faster in opening programmes and connecting to wireless than my Desktop PC. Battery life is amazing and therefore, ideal for longer meetings and travelling.

- I have not discovered any bad points yet.

+ Practically everything is good about this laptop.

- RAM memory can't be upgraded so can't run Vista.

+ Small and easy to set up and use.

- Needs a mouse for long term use as pad is not very sensitive at times.

+ Size of screen and keyboard, in comparrison to the overall size of the netbook.

- battery life not quite as good as advertised

+ Well thought out intuitive design apart from maybe the mouse pad, but it's an extremely minor gripe and may not bother many people. Fast processor and 1gig ram makes most jobs and multi tasking a pleasure. It's one inch bigger than the rest of the pack and that one inch makes all the difference. Weight is pretty good and easy to lug around which was the intention. Design is really good and it looks fantastic in white, if yo like that kind of thing. Great points: Comes loaded with Win XP and has a built in 160gig HD and very good connectivity.

- Not many really, shame it doesn;t have a built in cd but then that would affect the size. Mouse pad is slightly over sensitive but that is personal preference i guess.

+ Probably the best netbook at moment.XP boots quickly & big hard drive.Great for travelling.

- Wireless N would be nice to have but no real bad points.

+ Great Little Machine

- Needs a bit more memory, this is cheap and easyto do....so why didn't samsung do it?

+ Excellent battery life - I am getting approx 4 hours video usage with it. Nice screen. Atom processor is up to the job too - I have installed Office 2007 Professional, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 (all full additions) and they work fine (they are for development purposes, not for full server use).

- Track pad is small

+ Brilliant battery life and portability - though some other in the market are now competing for size. Good quality finish and excellent keyboard.

- In the current climate a more powerful processor would be a big bonus as would an increase in the 1GB of RAM. The screen resolution is just below that needed for normal operating of some programmes eg Google Earth but for most programmes it is satisfactory.

+ Decent battery life.
Large Hard drive.

- 2GB Ram Maximum memory

+ Fantastic machine. Small but very usable. Great screen

- Only 1 memory slot so had to buy 2gb stick & throw the supplied 1gb away

+ Size, ease of use, good keyboard, good battery life, do not believe all the hype about 7 hours, you actually get about 5.5.

- None that I have noticed.

+ Very quick booting up, also being blue tooth can update my phone.

- None

+ batteri life, hard drive, good size and weight. 10" is a real good size

- still like all other small comuputers... its slower

+ Good Size, clear screen, XP as appose to Linux which most netbooks have, good keyboard, webcam is good quality, very light, nice that it comes with a case.

- 1gb ram, first thing I did was upgrade it to 2gb. Poor screen resolution, two buttons on the keyboard were blue not black like the rest, battery is approx 5hrs not the 7.5 as stated, keypad to small so we bought a wireless mouse, but got a bluetooth mouse as is has built in bluetooth meant no dongle sticking out the side. Although there's many bad points it's competition has a lot more bad points so it's the best available albeit 30% more than the rest.

+ Superb value for money, great battery life, excellent screen and it's more than capable of running Office alongside numerous other applications such as Explorer.

- The touchpad is small and a little hard to find under your thumb/fingers initially but you get used to it. You'll also need to play around with the pad's settings to get the sensitivity and scrolling performance right.

+ Keyboard is a good size - almost like a fullsize laptop. Weight and size perfect for carrying around

- Haven't found any yet! Took me a while to work out how to load programs on it as it hasn't got an optical drive but you can't have everything!

+ It seems a perfect balance of portability, performance (including a really functional keyboard) and looks.

- I don't seem able to get it to output a larger resolution of display onto a subsidiary screen, but I'm working on that. I'm using a dongle for the internet, but an internal mobile modem would perhaps have been preferable.

+ Easy to use, long battery life, last for hours!

- Doesn't have a CD/DVD player drive

+ Compact, Solid construction. Works straight out of the box
Windows XP,
Great all round notebook pc

- Expensive.
Maybe too slow a processor for video on demand (eg BBC iPlayer) but haven't check settings etc

+ Good display, great battery life, comfy keyboard, looks good (mine's blue), extremely portable. Absolutely love it.

- Doesn't come with much on it - internet security is 3 month trial and no office programs. However, I don't think you can complain about that at the price these go for, plus you can get all these things for free, anyway.

+ easy to use netbook that does everything required extremely well. Quiet, great battery life, good screen, great keyboard... works a treat

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+ Good looking, light, quick start up

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+ Good Looks matched by operational efficiency.

- None

+ Size
battery life

- Sreen back is flimsy, touching rear of lid results in screen distortion
screen resolution, only possible to see small potion of web page
slip case does not have velcro to keep closed

+ Good screen. keyboard is a pleasure to work with. Plenty of storage with the 160Gb drive, and takes 16Gb and greater capacity SD cards for even more options.Memory upgrade is easy to do via a small hatch in the underside. Bluetooth links perfectly to my gps receiver, so using the netbook as a sat nav can't be easier. The long battery life just the icing on the cake. As long as people bear in mind this is a netbook, not a replacement for a laptop or desktop then they shouldn't have any complaints.

- Could come with a better storage sleeve. The pocket provided doesn't give any knock prevention, but is good for keeping the dust out. Thats how minor its faults are.

+ Runs very well with windows XP, excellent hard drive for storage.

- Could have included a built in GSM slot.

+ Small and light unit, useable keyboard, built in Bluetooth, large HDD, very clear and evenl-lit screen, necessary backup software supplied in box. A very nice product.

- Occasionally pauses without any visual indcation why - this is usually due to a network connection, large file transfer or just because the CPU load is too much - it can do ad-hoc graphics work, but don't try it regularly or if you need to do it quickly - it's just not the machine for it. Any office/presentation/word proc. type stuff and it flies, likewise surfing/emails etc are fine. Minor gripe, but the right shift key, whilst a reasonable size has been compromised by Smasung moving the backslash key '\' next to it. Had they left this key on the left, where it normally sits next to the left-hand shift key, the right hand shift key could have been almost full-width - and pretty much perfectly sized for it. A second (right hand) function key has not been supplied either. Slip case is rubbish. It is just fabric and needs neoprene as a minimum and the top flap is not able to be secured, it just wafts about. An aftermarket (neoprene/zipped) slipcase is a necessity though as all laptop bags are too big and will have this little PC rattling around inside - with a slipcase, any (i.e. more covert) bag can be used.

+ Fantastic battery life - nearly 8 hours! Great connectivity through built-in bluetooth, SD card reader & wireless.
Good size keyboard. Generally quick performance wise. Comes with XP for a real laptop feel. Excellent build quality, weight & style. Comes with a neat protective wallet & small charger with long lead. Screen quality is excellent. Half the size of a standard laptop.

- Samsung bloat-ware needs removing straight away! Sound quality not the best. The sheer size of the thing takes some getting used to. No CD drive due to size. No built-in 3G.

+ Excellent battery life, good keyboard and display.

- My wife would like it in pink!

+ Size, screen

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+ The finish and build quality is excellent. The keyboard is a proper size and keys are special keys are well placed.

- The track pad is a lirttle small and can be tricky - takes a bit of getting used to. I wouls recommend a mouse for extended use.

+ SMALL & COMPACT WITH GREAT BATTERY LIFE BUT WITH FULL SIZE KEYBOEARD. NICE KEYS. FRIENDLY TO USE

- NO INSTRUCTION MANUAL

+ Very Small Size and battery life.

- Screen is a bit small for some applications so you have to scroll about a little, but that's the trade off for the weight.

+ the battery is excellent, can be used constantly 7 hours.

- for its size, it is a little bit heavier.

+ Small and light so very portable. Good screen and nice keyboard

- No optical drive so a bit more hassle to install software. Premium price compared to full sized laptops.

+ It's compact but with a good size keyboard and screen. Very easy to use and quick at starting up etc.

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+ A great size to carry around with enough memory to store files unlike most other netbooks

- Difficult to fault. If I had to be picky the protective sleave could do with being padded to give it that bit of extre protection when in transit.

+ Battery life is super.
Built in web cam is great.
Bluetooth and wireless effective.
Plenty of USB slots and SD card slot.
Light and thin with a clear 10inch screen and good sized keyboard.
It even comes with a little cloth bag to protect it while carrying it around.

- I found the touch pad a bit too small and fiddly.
Maybe 2GB memory would have been better as standard ( i have upgraded mine )

+ screen size is bigger than most netbooks of this size, weight and price

- none yet

+ great battery life, around 6 hours. performance on a par with a basic laptop, webcam works great with skype

- screen is obviously quite small but when surfing you can switch to full screen mode which gets rid of all the clutter.