As a bit of background, Samsung did a deal with NewEgg, allowing them to have the NC20 exclusively at first in the states (not a bad thing as NewEgg is a really good seller & usually has very competitive pricing).

Over on NewEgg there are already a few reviews from customers and, at the time of writing, 67% of buyers give it a full 5 stars and the rest give it a solid 4 out of 5.

Here’s what one of our readers, Kao, had to say about his experience:

It was my first order from Newegg and they did a great job of packaging my order the same hour and getting it to UPS immediately since I paid extra for next day.

Each review has a set of ‘pros’ & ‘cons’ which makes for a nice balanced feel – take a look if you’re still not 100% sure about buying: Check out the reviews over at NewEgg.

Check out our ‘where to buy’ page for an update and go purchase your USA spec Samsung NC 20 today!

We’ll keep you updated when more suppliers are added, and of course when the US stock of the Neon range is made available

The new range contains the following colours:

• Electric green
• Miso Red
• Aquatic
• Clockwork orange
• Snow camoflage

It’s hardly suprising that Samsung would make some strange coloured NC20’s as it’s smaller brother the Samsung Nc10 was also available in some pretty weird colours.

These new colors, which complement the existing white and black versions will be on sale shortly in UK, Europe and will be coming to the US at the end of the month.

Personally the ‘Snow Camo’ is my new favourite!

You would have thought that the retailer would have tonnes of information and promotion on their website, but in the lead up this week’s release… Nothing.  If we we’re the exclusive US retailer for this awesome  12” netbook we would be wading the streets with our URL painted on our faces carrying signs reading “We’ve got the NC20 !”.
Some web sources are saying “early April” but till we hear it from a reliable source it remains strictly a rumour.
For those of you that simply cannot wait and need to get hold a decent netbook, there is always the machines ultra portable 10” brother the NC10 which is available in  Blue, Black, and White.

Whilst the review is for the Korean version, the article does have a few interesting points in there:

The battery
The Korean version comes with the 5200-mAh battery, which lasted a respectable 4 hours 17.  The USA NC20 will have an even larger capacity battery at 5200-mAh.  Our guesses put this just under 6 hours.

The price
The price will be somewhere between $500 – $600.  As we’ve seen so far prices of the NC20 have been slightly higher than the NC10, so we’d expect the price to be closer to the $600.

The review conconcludes with fantastic praise for the NC20….

“The Samsung NC20 blurs the line between netbooks and low-cost ultraportables. While the VIA Nano processor isn’t as powerful as a mainstream Core 2 Duo CPU, it provides similar if not slightly better performance than Intel’s current Atom offerings. And the NC20 offers better performance than the Dell Inspiron Mini 12″

In fact all reveiws  so far have praised the NC20 over the rest of the competition and with the laptop expected to be released in the US next monday (16th March) we expect the NC20 to be a bigger sales hit than the NC10.

As always we’ll keep updating our suppliers page with stockist updates in the US and around the world.

As always we’ll keep updating our suppliers page as soon as we hear of any more changes.

A quick search returns no information about the NC20, as ever we’ll be keeping our eye on the site to see if the rumours are true.

In the meantime there is a solution.  eBay!  A few NC20’s have been put up on sale on the auction website eBay.  With some sellers offering to ship to the USA, like this one for example, however this is only for those those who cannot wait and have money to burn, as the cost to get that one delivered is roughly $740.

We’ll keep updating our suppliers page as soon as we have news on the the release of the Samsung NC 20 in the USA and other regions.

£419.99!!! We’ve had a few typos lately, but i’m afraid that isn’t one of them.  Play must have not seen the competition selling this machine much cheaper!  If you’re a U.K shopper after the Samsung Nc20, go to Amazon instead, as they are selling the machine £40 quid cheaper !

How did Play think they’d get away with this?   I suspect they hoped you wouldn’t notice the price, take one look at the photoshopped race car and hit “Add to cart”.

The video also shows some new information such as the single mouse button as on the Samsung NC 10, a usb extention cable.   But what is more impressive is that the machine can fully start windows XP in around 35 seconds!

If you’re looking for a place to buy the Samsung NC20, take a look at our Recommended Suppliers Page.