Samsung's NC10 netbook on sale in US for $480

Generally speaking, Americans can count on the US price of any particular piece of kit being a fair bit less than the straight pound-to-dollar conversion. Unfortunately, the exchange rate here is nearly on point, with the £299 NC10 10-inch netbook on sale for $480 (give or take a few nickles) in the US of A. Granted, it looks as if it'll be a fortnight or so at the very least before any Yanks can wrap their grimy paws around the germ-shunning PC, but we've already got the e-tailers lining up to hold your place in line. Who knows -- maybe our version will come with built-in WiMAX and 12-hours of battery life to really sweeten the deal.

[Via Liliputing, thanks Michael]

Read - Pre-order NC10, option 1
Read - Pre-order NC10, option 2

[allislost @ Oct 11th 2008 6:54AM]

I'll wait for of, then it'll be BETTER!

[X-Blade™ @ Oct 11th 2008 10:23AM]

If this is released for £299, it will be the best value/money netbook here in the UK, Given that it comes with a 6-cell battery and 160GB HDD.

MSI Wind - 120GB HDD £328.65
Eee 1000H -80GB HDD £334.26

I can't wait for the this to come out.

[)law( @ Oct 11th 2008 7:15AM]

Damn my job shutting down. If I had the money I would snatch this up black Friday or wait till Christmas

[Jash Sayani @ Oct 11th 2008 7:51AM]

Dont you think the pic should be available while pre-order and the config. ??

[)law( @ Oct 11th 2008 8:05AM]

Yea that is a bit odd, most of the time there is a display pic

[Josh Ladella @ Oct 11th 2008 8:52AM]

CORRECTION:

you misspelled nickels in "give or take a few nickles"

[Cybergypsy @ Oct 11th 2008 11:17AM]

stop being anal....

[Cybergypsy @ Oct 11th 2008 9:59AM]

no ta bad price?

[Kickace @ Oct 11th 2008 1:42PM]

last time i checked....299 pounds was $600 american or a bit more.....

what exactly year is this article written in in where 299 pounds is $480? :)

[chop @ Oct 11th 2008 12:47PM]

um no

299 British pounds = 504.9213 U.S. dollars

[woody @ Oct 11th 2008 3:07PM]

shouldn't the comparison be with UK price without VAT (255) to USD? http://www.saveonsamsung.com/Samsung_NC10_451228.html
which would be about $435 USD.

[Ian @ Oct 11th 2008 7:56PM]

Well £299 includes VAT, while $480 doesn't include tax. If you add tax to the item, say 5%, the price is $504 USD. If you were simply to convert £299 to US dollars, it would equal $509. So not a bad estimate by the writer.

[Stalyn @ Oct 11th 2008 3:10PM]

not bad.

[Ian @ Oct 11th 2008 7:17PM]

It has a good keyboard, which makes it better than the large majority of its competition already.

[john @ Nov 3rd 2008 1:33AM]

does anyone know any place in the US that has this laptop for preorder in black? right now i know that the US only gets blue and white, but i rather have the black. if now is there any UK site that ships to the US and how much would it cost.

[Eric @ Nov 18th 2008 10:08AM]

You can get it here in black and have it shipped to the US:
http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=175292

Minus VAT and plus shipping it comes out to: USD$439 (currency converted using google on 11/19/08)
I was gonna pick one up, but I dont like the small keys on the UK keyboard.