Samsung NC10-11GP 10.2-Inch Pink Netbook - 6 Cell Battery

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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