Just received the Samsung Nc10 and its amazing!

Wow its my first netbook and it doesnt feel like a netbook, it feels like a ultraportable notebook!

I am amazed by the quality and the screen is gorgeous! One happy buyer!

 

I am a bit biased, but I do think Samsung makes the best netbooks on the market currently! Now that may change tomorrow as this is certainly a fast evolving industry.

Having started out with the NC10 SE and moving to the N120, I couldn't be happier myself!

Glad the NC10 is great for you!

 

its a great machine. very powerful considering its price point and form factor.

ive tweaked my machine no end with a 2gig ram upgrade and 7200rpm drive (as you have ive read)
and its very fast now. any system slowdown i had has gone and performance in games has improved.

i would advise looking at some windows xp tweak guides on the net. you can get bags of performance gain by disabling unecesary services and other stuff.

i know it seems silly to get a netbook for gaming. but thats what i did and its wonderful at it as long as you only want to play older games (but saying that... it can play spore and not badly either)

 

just got one delivered too! I'm new to notebooks - should i have bought it with office already installed? or it there another way of doing it?

 

Put them things back in the boxes and get an N120. hehehe I kid, I kid!

 

No way!! Sorry but I'm loving the matte screen too much!

 

You know I thought that too, but I don't miss that matte screen on the NC10 SE that I returned. I love that this thing isn't reflective like most glossy displays, yet still give the vibrant rich colors including the really deep blacks that you simply can't get with a matte display. But I am glad you are happy none the less, but I don't think I'd go back now! Only Samsung could get a glossy display to look so darn good and yet not be like a freaking mirror.

 

I'm sure the glossy display isnt as nearly glossy as hp and other notebooks (kind of like the macbook air rev. a that I had which was awesome and colors popped without too much reflection) but something about the total matte display + led backlighting characteristics that I just love.

 

Download and install OpenOffice. Only consider Microsoft Office if there's a feature that it has but OpenOffice lacks.

If you need to install MSOffice then use a computer with an optical drive to copy the whole of the installation CD to a flash drive. Use textpad to read the contents of the autorun.inf file and then find and run the program (probably setup.exe) that is mentioned in autorun.inf.

John

 

thats what i normally do, but i have read that its simpler (not for me cause i cant get it working) to network (wirelessly or otherwise) your desktops optical drive and install from there.

 

I've found peer-to-peer networking in XP to be challenging. Start by making sure the computers are in the same workgroup.

John