Comments on: 10 Reasons To Buy The Samsung NC20

By: Deeroo

Deeroo — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:37:00 +0000

I just purchased one NC20 and am so far extremely happy with it. All’s true about it in the article above.Highly reccomended!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:55:58 +0000

Does the NC20 have an SD slot? Im wanting to put the SD chip from my camera straight into the computer??

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:20:03 +0000

Hi. The NC20 is great and everything I asked for and more. I am however finding it diffcult to source a good protective sleeve as the standard one doesn’t offer sufficent protection. Can anyone please recommend a good protective sleeve that will fit the NC20 dimensions. Many thanks.

By: Shawnon

Shawnon — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:28:18 +0000

Bought it, Love it… got it for cheap through BuyDig.com… cheapest place on the net at $459 and have great service. Shipped in 3 days for free for 2 bucks and was tax free.

It is small enough to hide in my truck and makes a perfect mobile work computer and it has a long battery life. As far as the glossy screen, well the new LED back light is brighter that previous and I have no problems seeing in bright light situations.

By: Leplus

Leplus — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:35:42 +0000

Hi all,

I would like to know where I can buy a NC20 with a linux (preferably Ubuntu) in France.
If it is not possible, I should take another manufacturer

Regards,

Pierre

By: dave da wave

dave da wave — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:08:24 +0000

So is the screen as good as say an old mac air? Or Hp-dv2?

By: Simian Joshua

Simian Joshua — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:41:15 +0000

Just bought one of the these from amazon.uk for £355 and got 2Gb ram for £15.

Wanted a small but functional laptop to do some basic document editing etc. Definetly wanted a small one as it was going to be flung in a bag a lot.

Cant recommend this machine, enough. I was a bit dubious buying a ’samsung’ as i had looked at the sony vaio TT series, even though there expensive. But glad i got the samsung.

Highly recommend getting the new Windows 7 (i got the release candidate for free, usable for a year) as it works beautifully, easily installed.

Also installed Office 2007 (only £9 if you work for the NHS) – works lovely.

Nice machine, good price.

By: Stefan Holmes

Stefan Holmes — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:45:40 +0000

There’s nothing stopping you using Linux on an NC-20 (or an NC-10, for that matter). Getting your retailer to refund the cost of Windows is up to you to sort out. Not an ideal situation, but if you want Linux badly enough…

I purchased 2 NC-10’s for our company a couple of weeks ago. For us, Windows XP was a must in order to maintain compatability with existing systems and *more importantly* to reduce the cost impact in supporting them! This seems to be the one factor people ignore when saying “use linux, use linux!”.

Supporting *just* Linux is great. Supporting Linux machines used in a Windows environment is a pain in the proverbial. Interoperability is much improved, in recent times. Still nowhere near transparent though.

By: SteveO

SteveO — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:57:01 +0000

My NC20’s been a terrific laptop since I bought it two weeks ago. I’ve already worked it into my daily routine, which I find surprising considering how fast it was.

I disagree with the Linux point on this blog; I use openSUSE at home and SLED at work and I can’t see how either distro isn’t “office friendly”. Unfortunately, hardware support for the NC20 isn’t quite their with the current distros, but that should all be fixed by the next release cycle. Fedora 11 (and all related distros) work like a dream on the NC20.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:53:53 +0000

Does the NC20 run well with the installation of Windows Office 2000 (without having to upgrade the RAM)?

If not, how expensive is an extra 1GB RAM and how do I upgrade to this?