[access-uk] Re: net book

Hi,

Can only speak from my own experience, but I'm still very happy with
my Samsung NC10, which I think I've had now for coming up to two
years. Still going strong and working fine, with moderate use; I use
it about the house sometimes (E.G., plugging from the headphone jack
into my HIFi to listen to audio books, or internet radio streams on
the HiFi in my bedroom or front room), Plus just being lazy and
surfing the net on it whilst I'm in bed.

Had a fair bit of travel out of it, and as its small and light I take
it with me when I'm away for a weekend or longer, so for example I'm
off to my parents for Christmas soon and I'll take the NC10 along with
the Wireless internet dongle I got so I can keep up to date with
E-mails and things whilst I'm away.

The things I particularly like about it is its size and weight, the
very long battery life, the speakers on it are plenty loud enough for
running JAWS, (though probably not ideal for listening to music on),
The keyboard, although it took a little bit of getting used to is
actually quite comfertable for  typing on.

On the netbook I run pretty-much any software I need, so I have MS
office 2003 on it, a DAISY book player, JAWS version 9 I think, all
the various media players, Qwitter, the Twitter client, Internet
explorer, firefox, and a few other things as well which all seem to
run fine. You can however tell its not a powerful machine, but only
really by things like it taking a little longer than my main PC at
opening word documents if they're big.

My two main problems with the Samsung NC10 is that it would have been
nice were there a physical switch on it somewhere to turn on/off the
bluetooh, and turn on/off the WiFi. Also, it would have been better in
my opinion  if they had put a slot in it for taking a sym card from a
mobile, so you could hook it up to the internet that way rather than
having to use an external USB wireless internet dongle when I'm away
from my home network (they could I would have thought easily put this
into it rather than the small slot at the front which takes a MMC
card).

However, I've not been looking at what is happenign with Netbooks
recently, I got the impression that they had for some reason gone off
in a strange direction and started making them bigger, more powerful;
so closer to a laptop which in my view kind of missed the point as to
what netbooks are for.

My Lodger has the aspire 1 I think its called, and he's had that now a
few years and seems to get on well with it (he's sighted and uses it
for work as well as playing video content on it when he's away).

Not even sure now I think of it, which models are still availible.

Mark

On 12/12/2010, Linda Gaitskell <runningsun27@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am thinking of getting a net book and wondered if anyone had any
> recommendations please.
>
> Thanks
> Linda
>


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