General: Samsung NC10

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      CommentAuthorLolly
    • CommentTimeDec 24th 2008
     

    I have a new Samsung NC10! Yay! :)

    I am currently playing with it and will report on progress. Standard Ubuntu apparently has some issues so I am looking around to see whether anyone has been nice enough to package up a Linux distribution for it.

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      CommentAuthorLolly
    • CommentTimeDec 24th 2008
     

    Well, here are some of my first impressions.

    The lid is a fingerprint magnet but otherwise very nice. The keyboard is really really good - you can't tell that the keys are smaller than full size (I'm typing on it now). The trackpad is annoyingly small, but there isn't room for it to be bigger. I'd prefer a trackpoint (but most people don't like them). I suppose it's heavier than some netbooks but it's still very light and I shall be carrying it around everywhere!

    Power consumption is impressively low. When I plugged in my external hard drive (2.5", powered by the USB port) the expected battery life remaining time halved...

    The screen is great. On three bars out of 10 it's perfectly readable outside in the sun (yes, it's sunny and warm and I had barbecued sausages for lunch). I'm having a hard time adjusting to the resolution (my Alienware has a 1920x1200 display so it's nearly 4 times the size) but a mini theme in Firefox is helping.

    I had a go at booting Ubuntu from a live USB stick. Most things work, but there are issues which still aren't completely fixed yet (various googling tells me that nobody's managed to get the trackpad sensitivity quite right and Ubuntu has a tendency to power cycle the hard drive excessively, reducing battery life and hard drive life) so I'll wait until somebody packages up a handy distribution for the NC10 (it's popular and lots of other netbooks have them, so I can hope!). Until then, Windows is OK.

    :)

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      CommentAuthorcoyote
    • CommentTimeDec 24th 2008
     

    Hi Lolly, I hope you enjoyed that sausage. I expect that didn't help the finger marks on your NC10.
    Mrs.C has a Dell inspiron 910 Mini; you may have seen the banter between my good lady and Spode. I'm amazed how well it works, loaded with Windows home, it seems to do everything needed with only eight Gigs of main memory!

    It uses the Intel Atom CPU which works fine, if a little slow booting up and its not so good on battery life (about four hours) but good enough.

    Your Samsung sound like a great little machine, I hope it does what you want and Ubuntu gets the coding right eventually. Enjoy your nice hot Christmas and eat a sausage for me. :D

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      CommentAuthorKrazyIvan
    • CommentTimeDec 24th 2008
     

    I think there is a way you can disable the hard disk power cycling. At least I read something about that about 6 months ago. Any pictures?

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      CommentAuthorLolly
    • CommentTimeDec 25th 2008
     
    • CommentAuthorBeanz
    • CommentTimeDec 25th 2008
     

    Isn't the mouse shown the Revolution?

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      CommentAuthorLolly
    • CommentTimeDec 25th 2008
     

    Yes. Also known as MX1000. :P

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      CommentAuthorSpode
    • CommentTimeDec 27th 2008
     

    I had a tinker with the NC10 at Dixon's when I flew out to Dublin for Christmas. I really like it physically - but my main thought was, i wonder if Ubuntu runs on it.

    The hard drive issue is also on the MSI Wind IIRC and can be solved.

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      CommentAuthorKrazyIvan
    • CommentTimeDec 28th 2008
     

    Wow, it looks teeny next to the AW lappy. :o

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      CommentAuthorLolly
    • CommentTimeDec 28th 2008
     

    That's probably cos the AW is so biiig... ;)

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      CommentAuthorLolly
    • CommentTimeDec 28th 2008
     

    Hmm, various reports seem to suggest that Fedora 10 works almost flawlessly out of the box. I'm going to give it a try.

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      CommentAuthorSpode
    • CommentTimeDec 28th 2008
     

    Let us know how you get on. Fedora is a good OS :)

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      CommentAuthorLolly
    • CommentTimeDec 28th 2008
     

    It's taking ages to download...

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