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I purchased this little guy about a month ago. I work in IT and do a lot of things with computers and networking. My previous laptop that was big and bulky, cost me about $1600. The NC10 does almost everything that old laptop did, with more disk space to do it. The only things it has trouble with are highly graphical games like EVE Online. The game runs fine, and you can even play most of it, but doing battle with more then one other ship is not recommended since the calculations will tax the CPU and GPU.

I have also upgraded it with the Crucial 2GB memory available here on Amazon. The memory works great, as usually expected from Crucial. As other posters have mentioned, it won't void your warranty, but any memory-related issues will not be under warranty (which makes sense).

I also installed the latest version of VMware Server on it, which runs as a service in the background, and have spun up several VMs including one to test Windows 7! I currently run Ubuntu Server Edition in a VM and you wouldn't even know it was running unless I told you (or you knew what process to look for).

The laptop also goes in to sleep mode quickly, and comes out of sleep lightning fast (sub 2sec). Hibernate also works quickly as the disk IO is very good. The disk in mine is a Toshiba MK1652GSX and has an average read speed of 52.5MB/s bursting to 101.8MB/s.

Samsung uses a few different disks, my previous one was a Fujitsu, which brings us to the next part of this....

A bit of a story. This is the second NC10 I've purchased. The first one I was carrying around with me on Superbowl Sunday. I was picking up some friends at their house and had to make some room in the back seat of my car. I placed the NC10 on the roof above the back seat door and moved things around. She sat down, I closed the door, walked to the drivers side, and drove away. The NC10 and its power supply were sitting on the roof for a little while, but fell off. We found the power supply, but not the NC10, so someone was happy for about 7 hours hehe. Anyway, it just goes to show how much I like this little thing, I bought it twice!

The only reason not to buy this, is if you just want to save money. If you have the money, buy this one, its worth it. It is a very well-built device and I trust it to give me years of service. I did a lot of research before deciding which netbook or laptop to purchase. My previous one was in my car, parked on the side of the road, when it got rear-ended on the interstate. My car was totaled, the NC10 got thrown around, but still ran fine up until I lost it :)
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I've read every review on this product on Amazon before I made the decision. I don't want to list pros/cons here again. Just want to tell my experience.

This little baby is everything I want. Very fast, super quiet. I don't want a big laptop anymore. I want to tell my manager "Save your two thousand dollars, all I want is a netook, a samsung netook". My intended use of the netbook is for leisure activities, youtube, slingmedia, email, web surfing, and maybe(A remote distant maybe) some light office duty. Basically, a computer to distract me when I visit the bathroom. :-D

So far, I've installed and tried:
1. Google two finger scroll software and followed someone's online instruction which disables a whole bunch features of the finger pad. After that, it's natural, intuitive and with plenty room.
2. Mounted my desktop DVD/CD drive on the home network and use it to install office 2007. Everything works great, lightening fast.
3. Installed google pack, pctool doc and Norton are the things I want. I tried google earth. The motion and graph is nice and smooth.
4. Installed sling player. how nice it is to play video on this baby, smooth and crystal clear.
5. I'm very afraid of the blue blotch issue. So the first thing I tried is to download a screen test program. Tried everything there. The screen is nice, bright and defect free. Beautiful.
6. When I started initializing the machine, I zeroed out D drive and left everything for C. Who cares about backup and restore on this machine. This is my bathroom machine. If it's gone bad, I'll just install everything again.
7. Someone here complained the network connection. In my try-out, I got excellent connection. The wifi network wizard picks more networks in the neighborhood than my laptop and desktop(Installed PCI wifi g card).
8. Watching netflix instantly play, youtube, hulu, etc, excellent experience.
9. I thought the speaker might be weak as someone mentioned. But I guess that person is deaf or at least hearing damaged. Plenty volume for me.
10. After installed everything, I replaced the 1GB dimm with 2GB. I have to say honestly that I didn't notice any speedup. If you don't want to spend the extra 20 dollars, you might just as well save it, in my opinion.
11. The keyboard is plenty big. My typing is adjusted right away. Great.
12. This is a very well engineered machine. solid, quiet and engineers pay attention to details.

In all, this netbook is a natural for me. No single one thing uncomfortable to use.

Netbook is the future!!!

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