Samsung NC10 reviewed, trumps competition with 7 hour battery life
By Tim Stevens 
posted Oct 29th 2008 9:28AM
posted Oct 29th 2008 9:28AM
posted Oct 29th 2008 9:28AM
Segment of single women who said their next computer purchase would be a laptop.
Of 1,000 single men and women polled, 47 percent of women said they'd buy a laptop, while 47 percent of men were looking for a desktop.
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A netbook that could last me an entire day at school without a charge?
Awesome, but I'll wait for the benchmarks to get in.
Even the ASUS EeePC 1000H has 7hrs battery life... Its a good one... Planning to buy it if MacBook prices dont go down soon.....
Samsung NC10 get really good feedback from customers. Read customer reviews and look at the VDO in this link http://www.bestdealsonar.com/good-and-cheap-samsung-nc10-netbook/ .
For me, Samsung has done a great job for NC10!! Great Battery Life, Excellent Size Keyboard, Better design than many other netbooks in market. ( I hate Asus design.)
Considering that most netbook users will most assuredly have WiFi turned ON, who exactly do they think they're kidding with their battery life numbers?
Set everything where you'll use it and the battery life will no doubt be exactly the same as the rest.
Did you even read the article? It says that the WIFI was on:
"The netbook earned high marks thanks to a bright screen, comfortable keyboard, and amazing battery life of 7:34 with WiFi turned on."
How about that?
Sorry people!
Yeah everybody sucks sometimes.
I've been looking for a netbook and so far it has to be said this looks great, very competitive price tag and many good/great features that beat the competition.
Only 4:48? Who wouldn't love a netbook that gives 4:48 STANDARD(yes 6-cell) at full brightness and wifi on. Seven hours shouldn't be surprising. I look at this netbook as a better deal than the HP mini 1000, considering you get everything you'd want for $500.
The keyboard is a toss up but the 6-cell comes standard(without the bulge, thanks), you get a bigger faster 5400rpm 2.5" HD compared to HP's slower PATA and smaller SSD(hope the mini's SSD is FAST), and also it comes with bluetooth.
the battery life shouldnt differ that much from the 6 cell 6600mAh eeepc 1000ha
i love the look of this netbook. this is mine.
Do we know when this is launching in the US and Canada yet?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/samsung-readies-premium-laptops-for-us-soup-lines/
doesnt sound like itll be anytime in the near future :(
spike says they're available. i might be wrong.
I hear that this might be coming near the end of November, stateside that is. Unfortunately up here in Canada Samsung has yet to even add computers to their web site, so I am even sure if it will launch here. That being said, there has been no mention of when or if the black model will become available in the US, only blue and white so far.
I would like to know the answer to these questions as well. Anyone have more information on this?
"7:34 continuous Web surfing over Wi-Fi" is VERY suspicion to me.
It says the wifi was on, not that they were actually using the netbook for anything. I don't see anything surprising about that.
@ vigilante.killer:
Read the original review, P3. It says "continuous Web surfing". That means loading and rendering pages one after the other.
I wouldn't define continuous surfing as that - in fact it's the 'surfing' bit which clarifies the situation. When you 'surf' the web, you're not constantly loading and rendering pages - the majority (hopefully) of your time is spent reading and interacting with them.
@ Mik: It's available for pre-order already on Buy.com and Amazon, slated for sometime early-mid November I think.
Pity there's no black available in the US. The UK gets the black model, why can't we?!
ooo really? i didnt think they sold too many samsung notebooks/netbooks/whatever-you-wanna-call-em in north america.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/samsung-readies-premium-laptops-for-us-soup-lines/
is that just for higher end ones?
1024 x 600 is a bag of fail.
No no no! You obviously don't get the new trend! Whenever you use the word "bag" it can only be used in the sense "a bag of hurt". God says so at least.
i been looking into getting the aspire one with XP and 1GB ram but now this has come along, it's making me think twice!
is this much bigger than the aspire one?
test the 50% brightness !
like in all equipment maximum performance
equals maximum power consumption.....
we can always find a bug if we really want to
WTF!
Why does this look so closely to the Macbook????
We want something original, come on.
reagarding heat distribution, and hard ware quality samsung laptops are not good. . korean laptops ( lg or samsung) are not upto quality ..
Actually in my experience Korean manufacturing quality far surpasses that of Taiwan and China (where western manufacturers outsource). However neither of our points matter because anecdotal evidence is just that, anecdotal and irrelevant to any purchasing decision.
If the price is right, that just might be the right gift to get that girl I've been drooling over.
Go get 'er, Tiger!
So they tested the laptop once and got a time of 7h 34m at 50% screen brightness and WiFi turned on ("continuous web surfing").
They were surprised, so they tested the unit again at 100% screen brightness and WiFi turned on, and got 4h 48m.
However, they STILL plan on re-testing it. Why didn't they just retest it a 3rd time and publish the story afterwards? Couldn't they wait an additional 5 hours to publish the story?
Are we still not over these cheap tat effectively recycling 5-year-old ultraportables?
I understand there are people who can't afford decent machines or those who just go for something which looks nice because they have no real idea about computers but jeez, does the entire tech blog world have to be netbooks or Apple, or why Apple isn't doing netbooks?
Not everyone is on a struggling blogger's salary - for many people interested in tech it's not actually a big deal to spend a few thousand bucks every couple of years or so on a well-built, nice machine which actually runs a current OS properly.
Can we have less clogging of the tubes with these toys for the broke and perhaps less cynical reporting on truly current machines not from the ignorant "ooooh, it's shiny! I love it" blogger's favourite fruit-flavoured maker?
yeah. what he said. and get off my lawn, peasant!
Wait - there are people who still want ginormous horrible laptops that weigh half a ton and need to be carried in a special briefcase? And the battery only lasts an hour? We have plenty of those at work and they're a completely half-arsed idea, however nice the screens are. Literally all it ever needs to do is run Powerpoint and a web browser.
So it's not about price, it's about convenience and the fact that people are realising computers are actually fast enough now; your carry-around computer that you're going to use for web browsing and email and maybe typing out a document on the train doesn't need to be particularly powerful, and in fact it's much better if it isn't, because then it can be smaller and (case in point) have longer battery life.
The reason there's so much buzz about 'netbooks' is that as time goes by they are probably going to largely replace the monster laptop in sales, in the same way that monster laptops replaced the 'luggable'. It's just a really nice form factor. Sorry if you've got some kind of strange emotional investment in a 17" diplodocus with graphics card fast enough to run Crysis and water-cooling, but the rest of the world is moving on from that.
Or to put it another way, it's nothing to do with 'starving bloggers' being poor. It's because they're rich enough to have (at least) two computers: a main computer, which is powerful enough to run complex software and probably has a nice 24" screen attached, and a laptop, which does everything you need when you're on the move. And they're smart enough to realise that the second of these doesn't need to be big and heavy any more.
Looks nice! But I am very happy with my ASUS EeePC 1000H !!!