Friday Foto: Samsung NC10

Behold the beauty that is my new Samsung NC10 netbook. I had grand plans to vlog about it but alas, vlogging will have to wait. I got this petite powerhouse for travel and for toting around town and am madly in love with Roxie. Yes, that’s her name: Roxie. She is indeed a petite powerhouse of sass, endless energy and power. Love her.

PROS:

• Super light at 2.8 pounds. Not the lightest (some models are 2.4 lbs) but MUCH lighter than my Dell Inspirion and lighter than my Macbook.
• 10.5″ super bright LCD screen. Other models I looked at claimed to be 10.5″ but in reality, an inch of that was border around the screen.
• 1.6-GHz Intel Atom Processor
• Amazing 8-hour battery life. I’ve tested it for a full week now, and it’s always given me between a full 8 hours and 8.5 hours. There is a Special Edition Samsung NC10 coming out soon that reportedly has a 9.4-hour batter life.
• Plenty of RAM for what I will use this netbook for (1 GB RAM compared to half that on other models)
• Comes with Bluetooth, WiFi technology
• 3 USB ports
• Available in black, white, pink and blue
• Built-in webcam
• Decent sized keyboard for a netbook. I don’t have any problem typing on this, but then again, I have small fingers. I do, however, have problems typing on iPhones, which is why I refuse to get one, so typing on this keyboard is much easier than typing on an iPhone.

CONS

• Tiny touchpad with a ridiculously hard-to-tap click button, so I just do the double tap instead. The Special Edition coming out reportedly has a larger touchpad
• Must purchase an external CD/DVD drive since the netbooks are all too small to have internal ones, but that’s across the board.
• There aren’t enough cool designs for netbook skins and netbook bags yet. And yes, this is a big con for someone who is very visual and brands everything related to her business (ahem).

Tags: gear, technology