Comments on: Hands-On with the VIA Nano-Powered Samsung NC20, Coming to U.S. in March

By: Chetflippo

Chetflippo — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:49:49 +0000

Can a netbook user tell me how well the NC 10 or NC 20 cope with playing films from a hard drive? I am agonising between a net book and a laptop, i want it for watching films on the move and plan to get a USB TV stick, as well as the usual net and Skype applications. Any tips most welcome.

By: motocross921

motocross921 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:15:51 +0000

Called newegg 2 times yesterday and no one had any idea of the march 16th release date for the nc 20 also called samsung the rep I spoke to said late march early april.So I did not want to wait another month so I ordered the nc10 se

By: David

David — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:53:33 +0000

According to a chat with a Newegg Customery Service Rep, they does not currently have the NC20, nor have they received an ETA from Samsung when they will have them.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:36:30 +0000

It’s not a physical limitation of XP, it’s a licensing requirement to be considered a netbook. Microsoft is offering XP licenses to manufacturers at a very low rate, but only if the product conforms to a set of predefined hardware specifications.

Also, I’ve been refresh monkeying Newegg’s site to no avail. I guess the posted date of the 16th means Newegg will start initially receiving shipments, not the actual date that it goes on sale. I was hoping to pick this up before I went on vacation so I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it’ll be out soon.

By: Painless

Painless — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:01:11 +0000

Jez.. I’m using 2gb on my nc10 with the original OS suplpied by Samsung (which i by the sticker called ULPC) and mine shows and use 2gb without any problems

By: Jez - Samsung NC20 Community

Jez - Samsung NC20 Community — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:06:56 +0000

Strad, my understanding is that 1gb is a limitation imposed my Microsoft on those still distributing with Windows XP. If you go to 2gb they have to use Vista which may put people off becuase it is thought to be more resource hungry. But yeah, the NC20 is pretty much a bigger NC10. It has different insides but I don’t think that will mean much to end users!

By: Ike

Ike — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:49:32 +0000

You’re welcome! The display resolution is one of the reasons I’m very interested in the NC20, which is why I picked that nit. I’ve been looking at some of the smaller ‘netbooks’ and while they’re nice, I’m sure I’d feel very cramped with just 600 vertical pixels.

I’m almost happy enough to just keep using my old 12″ iBook G4, but that machine is gradually becoming less and less reliable, and the NC20 has a higher resolution, a built-in webcam and bluetooth, weighs less (at the expense of an optical drive, which I can easily live without), probably gets better battery life than the iBook when it was new, and should perform at about the same level if not better. Plus, I’ve been interested in VIA processors for a while, and I won’t mind using Linux and/or Windows instead of OS X.

Thanks for the quick look, and I’m looking forward to the full review.

By: Joanna Stern

Joanna Stern — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:57:54 +0000

Ike: thanks for catching that. Changed to 1024 by 600. Thanks.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:33:19 +0000

that 720p video seemed to stutter?

By: Stradivariuus

Stradivariuus — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:54:34 +0000

1 GB of Ram? Why Samsung? No HDMI. Dell Mini 10 has HDMI. The rest looks the same as the 10”.

The keyboard seems to be larger. Perhaps I may be mistaken but some of the photos give this impression. I must confirm it later. Again like the 10” I don’t like the looks of the touchpad.

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