Background

The Samsung NC10 netbook is a small, mobile computer with:

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  10.2" WXGA TFT screen
  
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  160 GB harddrive (2.5" 5400 RPM SATA)
  
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  1 GB DDR RAM (upgradible to 2 GB max)
  
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  Intel Atom Processor m270 running at 1.6GHz.
  
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  1.33 KG,
  
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  6-cell battery,
  
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  Wi-Fi
  
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  10/100 LAN Interface
  
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  1.3MP Web Camera
  
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  Bluetooth
  
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  3-in-1 Card Reader
  
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  Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Operating System Service pack 3
  
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  3 X USB ports
  
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  Headphone out
  
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  Line input
  
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  Onboard sound
  
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  Speakers
  

Description

Coming in white, black or blue, it immediately feels light; You've probably not put the battery in yet. Even with the battery its light. The screen opens easily, with no catch on it unlike some larger laptops, so It can be opened with one hand. The keyboard is the real USP of the NC10 in comparason to other netbooks such as the Wind, Advent 4211, etc. The construction overall feels very robust and solid, compairing quite starkly with som eof the early netbooks like the EEEPC 4G which, well, felt very plasticy and 'toy-like'.

notes on initial set-up

on initial set-up, Samsung wants you to create a partition on the harddrive, for several reasons this is a good idea, but the detail of how they'd 'like' you to do it isn't exactly sensible.... Essentially the drive will be formatted so that there are three distinct partitioned sections;
C: - this is the main 'system' drive, to which you should install programs and software, and to where the XP home edition opperating system is installed.
D: This is the second drive of the partition and is really where files and documents, music, moovies etc., should be stored.
?: The third partition you won't be able to see; this is the mystory partition, but which is well worth having. the third partition is a little over 6 GB, of which about half (3GB) will actually be used, on initial set-up of the NC10 the computer will create a back up copy of the opperating system from the C: drive on to this partition, this enables to return back to 'factory' default settings on the opperating system, should something go majorly astray with the machine; in order to reformat back to the copy of the opperating system on this partitioned area, press F4 (function key 4), during boot up (don't do this unless you want to whipe your C drive!!!).
However, for some unknown reason the dafault sizing of these partitions is somwwhat odd. It gives the 6 GB to the mystory partition (this is really well hidden unless you know how to find it), but then, for some strange reason it splits the remaining 150ish GB exactly in two; A more logical idea is to allow say 25 GB for the C: drive; unless you really are going to install some majorly large applications; this leaves the majority of the harddrive space free for your moovies, illegal MP3s and porn.

Sound

Took me a while to find this; The default sound on it is .. well pretty quiet and lack luster.... Go 'start menu', - 'control panel', - 'Realtech sound controller (or whatever its called, not the main windows sound controls).: Play about with the Equaliser settings and the sound actually gets hell of a lot louder and also a darn site better sounding; It ain't going to be audiophile quality but its loud enough to, E.g., listen to an audio book, watch a moovie etc...