Samsung NC10

First impressions - very nippy, perfect for web browsing and emailing, had it running off my Xperia for 3G on the overground section of the tube.

Bad point? The wireless performance is not very good...downloading a driver now hopefully that will fix it...
 
After owning one for about 2-3 weeks now:

2GB ram - as predicted it has made sod all difference given that it is hard to eat into the area beyond 1GB as it is. Ram is cheep (like the budgie!) so what the hell.

Keyboard - Still rocks, although the lack of dedicated Home/End keys still bugs me.

Wireless - As Rafster stated, wireless doesn't seem very fast. Is it the built in card or what? I need to investigate at some point.

Trackpad - It's poor vertical height still annoys and I've struggled to adapt to it. I purchased a Logitech VX tail-less ratter with a small USB receiver for about £38 last night just to partially get around this.

Battery Life - Just bordering on insane. My average life is a solid 8hrs give or take.

Display - No real issues here that were mentioned on this thread earlier on.
 
TheDean said:
How on earth are you getting 8hrs on it?! What are you doing during these 8hrs? What battery profile have you set it at?
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dont think 8hours is out the question, ive managed 7 easily with brightness set at 3rd level, was on internet and msn all night
 
rafster said:
Tried new driver, same problem, which driver should we be using to better these WLAN dropouts?
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ive been using the supplied drivers and never had a single issue at home or at work, at home its through a few plasterboard walls and floor at work a concrete and metal shielded floor.
 
TheDean said:
How on earth are you getting 8hrs on it?! What are you doing during these 8hrs? What battery profile have you set it at?
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I've hit 9 :p http://www.flickr.com/photos/kainz/3075410640/in/set-72157610366589529/

Right now I mostly run in Normal mode as I'm not sure what silent mode entails yet. I run with the lowest brightness settings, blueteeth disabled, speakers muted and a ton of services disabled. Nothing special, just a tweaked OS install and that's all. I mostly browse the net and chat on Irc. That's primarily what I bought the machine for.

I'm probably blessed with a good battery...which takes flipping ages to charge.
 
The blotches on my NC10 were getting worse so I packed it for return. I opened the box to show someone and they had gone. After sitting closed for a while, they returned. Upright, gone; horizontal, blotches. They get worse the longer my netbook is left closed. Has anyone else seen this.
To crown it all, the left hand base of my netbook pinged open yesterday. It clicks back but comes apart again easily.
 
9hrs is a bit impressive....to maximise battery life, are we agreed it is best to let it totally run out then charge to full, rinse & repeat?
 
TheDean said:
9hrs is a bit impressive....to maximise battery life, are we agreed it is best to let it totally run out then charge to full, rinse & repeat?
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Exactly that.

Our office laptops (and mobiles for that matter) only get topups most of the time, the cells become doorstops in no time.
 
TheDean said:
9hrs is a bit impressive....to maximise battery life, are we agreed it is best to let it totally run out then charge to full, rinse & repeat?
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This used to be the general consensus regarding Ni-Cad batteries, but with Lithium-Ion batteries like the NC10 has, this practice is a topic of much debate. From reading various articles, the personal opinion I have formed on this subject is to generally recharge the battery when it is getting low, say 10 or 20%. However it doesn't matter too much if you ocassionally let it totally run out or recharge it when its at say 70 or 80%.

All batteries have a finite number of recharge cycles and I think it was either on Dell's or Apple's website that stated 1 cycle = charging from 0 to 100%, whereas charging from say 50/60 to 100% = 1/2 a cycle.

Just use this as a guideline and recharge it to fit around your life and daily usage, which is what you bought it for.
 
TheDean said:
9hrs is a bit impressive....to maximise battery life, are we agreed it is best to let it totally run out then charge to full, rinse & repeat?
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Yarp! It's complicated though as Moonrise mentioned. No-one can be 100% sure.

Although bear in mind that the screenshot there was taken on the very day I received the NC10, so it would have been it's second charge during the day I would guess. I seem to be averaging about 8hrs now that it's been in solid use for two weeks.

adbp1 said:
out of interest which services?
ive got a stripped down nlited xp now which i made and its sweet but i aint gota clue which services i need or dont need !!!
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I'll get back to you on that as I'm at work. I must have disabled about 8-9 odd services though. Granted they'll save on system resources but as to whether it'll affect battery life in any way I really doubt it.
 
Oops. I popped a MiniSD card + SDHC adapter into my NC10's card slot, not realising it didn't have an eject mechanism. The MiniSD card came out when I tried to remove them but the adapter is stuck. Any ideas as to how to remove it? There isn't a finger nail groove or even enough of the adapter showing to get a grip with pliers. Perhaps I'll just have to accept that I have a MiniSD card reader now. It does work very well but I'd prefer to be able to use SD cards as well... plus the fact that I need the adapter for my iPAQ.
 
Anyone know if they will ever release a Samsung NC10 with a higher resolution like 1280x800?

The screen res is the only thing holding me back from getting a Samsung NC10!

1024x600 just don't quite cut it for me...
 
Kainz said:
lol, tried using a tweezer to pull it out?
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No luck there. It's flush with the slot. I'm trying to remove it in the same way I shifted a MicroDrive I wedged in a CF slot (there's a trend here.) The trick is to glue a piece of cloth to the card, or inside of the adapter, and pull. I'm waiting for the glue to set. This stuff is plastic friendly and can be removed later so no harm is done.
Why doesn't everyone use an eject mechanism?
 
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