Dade’s Blog

Yes, I went and did something I didn’t think I would ever have done. I bought myself a netbook – a bloody Samsung one at that.

While I’m no fan of Netbooks due to their size and power, I have to say that I’m pleasantly surprised by this one. It’s fast, very fast, and can load up Windows XP in a matter of seconds, as opposed to Vista’s minutes. Added to this, it has a fully fledged SATA-II hard disk drive in it, which other models of the same variety do not – they have tiny little flash drives. Dirty flash drives.

The NC10 is not the smallest of netbooks, strutting into the ring with a 10″ widescreen display running at 1024 x 600 resolution, and weighs in at roughly 1.5kg. Not bad, I say.

There is a built on webcam, the keys are 17.7mm wide, which makes for decent fast paced typing. What every geek does!

The power consumption on this beast is very efficient too, though I haven’t fully tested this yet as I’ve only just recently got it and it needs to go through my rigorous cycle of battery prepping.

Anyway, it’s a bloody nice laptop! I’m proper chuffed about it.

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