Samsung's 2.1-channel rocking N120 netbook now available for pre-order
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My 7'' eee has a decent pair of speakers. Shame about the screen, though!
unfortunately attempts like this always fail, cause the speakers sounds like tin cans. They get an A for effort.
Hmm...I'm usually out somewhere when I use my netbook, and that more often than not means headphones (if I'm listening to anything at all).
I really can't see what the purpose of this is.
I hope the ".1" part isn't near the hard drive, lest there be some issues that arise like in the Acer's.... maybe they should play that U2 song and see if it crashes out the hard drive as a quality control check or something.
@FILL: I also wondered about this the other day, in order to reduce size, weight and cost (which seem like the main reasons to get a netbook) why not eliminate the speakers all together? What good are they really?
Is it too much to ask for companies to put SSD's in netbooks, Mini10 = no SSD, this is no SSD. I want options, don't care if it means smaller harddrive!
that really looks quite a bit like my thinkpad x200
It's totally blurring the lines between netbook/ultrathin/subnotebook.
Wow, that's a killer netbook. I'm sure you get what you pay for, but this really breaks my $350 netbook budget.
I paid $300 (thanks live.com!) for the six cell Acer Aspire One (8.9", 160gb hd, no internal bluetooth) and I have yet to see any other netbook come close to that value.
Dell Mini 9"
I just bought a Mini 9. Speakers are needed for the nice hold-like-a-book bedtime video machine. Subwoofer, though? Isn't a subwoofer technically supposed to hit below a certain range? I doubt a tiny, baby cone as I am sure this 'subwoofer' is, can only hit such frequencies if you put your ear right next to it and turn it down to the lowest volume possible.
"10.5 hours of battery life"
O RLY?
It would be a lot more truthful to call it a midrange speaker than a subwoofer. I doubt it goes anywhere below 100Hz.
MacBooks have always had a .1. (and they're among the worst sounding laptop speakers out there)
Lots of laptops have the extra .1 . They just don't advertise it. You find out when you take it apart.
It seems most portable devices that use the extra space that would be taken by a .1 speaker to increase the size and quality of the 2 main speakers sound a lot better and are also louder than if they had the .1 speaker.
Most.
Looks very businesslike, reminds me of my old thinkpad R40.
why would you want a fake sub on a notebook, there not gonna work worth a shit
This is the stupidest thing I've seen. Of all the things that suck with netbooks, Samsung tries to fix the unfixable: the speakers. It really should know better!
A better arrangement would be to have stereo tweeters on either side of the display and stereo full range speakers on bottom/front. Too often with speakers on the bottom I have to tilt the whole machine up to hear high frequencies.