Samsung Refurbished Note Book 2GB Ram 160 Hdd- NC10 -Blue

SAMSUNG NC10
The NC10 features solid plastic construction and is thicker than most ultra portable notebooks.  It is well endowed with shiny surfaces and the sooner any owner stops worrying about fingerprints, the better. The shiny plastic display back is supplemented by a shiny metal belt around the front and sides (which made photography more difficult). One dominant feature is the wedge shaped design with the 6-cell battery protruding from the bottom near the back. Most of the weight is at the back of the computer and when used as a laptop it feels that it might tilt over backwards.

Keyboard and Touchpad
Samsung provided the NC10 with a generous keyboard, but the trade-off is a relatively small touchpad. The keyboard has an almost standard layout including the highly appreciated dedicated Pg Up and Pg Down keys. The Ctrl key occupies the almost standard position in the front left corner (Samsung have changed this year from putting Fn in the corner). There are 84 keys (83 keys on the US keyboard) which have clear white markings on a black plastic background. The keys have a slightly smaller than normal 17.7mm pitch and is easy to adapt to from a normal keyboard.

Ports and Features

Overall, the ports are quite well laid out. There are no ports on the back. Samsung have avoided squeezing ports so close together that they interfere with each other so all three USB ports can always be used. There are no ports on the front right side where cables can get in the way of a mouse. The fan exhaust is near the back on the left side.

The supplied hard disk is a 160GB 2.5” 5400rpm Hitachi 5K320 using the SATA interface. This model of the 5K320 uses one platter with a maximum transfer rate of 67.4MB/s and an average of 48.3MB/s. Both the hard disk and the interface performance are as one gets for a full-sized notebook.

Overall, the Samsung NC10 is a worthy challenger to ultra-portable notebooks. The performance is in the same range and, while the NC10’s battery life can’t quite match the Sony G11, it is at least the equal of the Toshiba R500 without the benefit of a noisy fan. The three areas where it can’t match those notebooks are display real estate, built-in optical drive, and price. For those people who want a very portable second computer then a netbook is the way forward. However, there will still be a demand for the ultra-portables from those people who want their only notebook to be as small and light as possible.