Thanks for the short review. I have a question. What do you mean by the applications key doubling up as a function key? How would I, for example, launch Narrator to set up Windows? How would I right click on an icon or something? Just curious as I may be getting a netbook as a replacement if my laptop doesn't come back from the shops by next week. Been there for three weeks and I'm entitled to a free replacement.
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To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:28 PM Subject: [access-uk] Initial thoughts on Samsung N120
Hi, Here are my initial thoughts on the samsung N120 Netbook after receiving it yesterday. The netbook is similar to the Samsung N110, and most likely Samsung NC10 (though I haven't felt an NC10). The processor and RAM specifications are identical to the NC10 and the N110. This netbook runs on an intel -- Atom N processor at a speed of 1.6 GHZ. The netbook by default comes with 1 GB of RAM, which is upgradable to 2 GB. I have yet to do this, but I will report on my findings when I have performed this upgrade. When choosing this netbook, I wanted something as close to a laptop keyboard as possible. Reading various sources such as Laptop Magazine etc I gathered that the Samsung N range netbooks are pretty close to the size of a standard laptop keyboard. The samsung N120 has a 97% size of a laptop keyboard, so it will be comfortable to type on. Well, it was for me. However, what initially put me off was they had made some very bizzarre arrangements on the keyboard such as doubling the applications key as the function key and putting in the place of the windows key. The netbook has a right windows key, no left. This at first put me off along with the applications key doubling as the function because it wasn't what I was used to. I even remember trying to press windows+u on the left to launch narrator and there was no speech. I was pressing applications+U *laughs*. However, this is a minor change I had to get used to. I will however say, that the keyboard does really feel like a laptop keyboard. Backslash and Forward slash keys are together, however this is nothing new, I hear from a friend that the NC10 has that same arangement of the slash keys. The netbook comes with Windows XP home and a load of Samsung utilities and McAfee security which I promptly removed and I saw an increase of speed in the operation of the device. Battery life has been great, I have been able to operate the thing for about 5 and a hhalf/6 hours on WiFi, during this period, I have streamed internet radio, watched youtube vids etc. (not all the time). I suppose that if you don't use WiFi as much as me, you will get more like 6 and a half/7 hours of battery life. However even on WiFi, it has been pretty impressive. My screen reader installed with no trouble and operates fine. No video intersept issues. However, I will warn, that from what I've heard, if you are going to make an unattended install of windows for the netbook, do not integrate drivers and this includes video drivers as you could run in to trouble with JAWS or any other screen reader that uses video drivers. Samsung do provide a disk with Drivers and utilities, so you can reinstall your drivers after windows install. The boot time was pretty impressive, the netbook booted up in to XP in about 10/15 seconds and I was ready to go. All in all, I would recommend this netbook for anyone who wants something reliable, robust and something that has a familiar keyboard to a laptop. There are other netbooks around such as the MSI wind, which have similar specifications, but it's up to you. This has just scraped the surface of the netbook, and if you are considering, I would advise you strongly to read, read and read reviews until you are sure on what you want. Best regards, Orhan Deniz. E-mail: orhan.deniz63@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:orhan.deniz63@xxxxxxxxx> MSN/Windows Live ID: orhan1793@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <msnim:add?contact=orhan1793@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Skype: KVP2008 <skype:KVP2008?add> AOL Instant Messenger: KVP2008 <aim:addbuddy?screenname=KVP2008> Jabber: Orhandeniz@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:orhandeniz@xxxxxxxxxx> My social networks: Twitter: KVP2008 <http://www.twitter.com/kvp2008> Last.fm: orhandeniz1993 <http://www.last.fm/user/orhandeniz1993> facebook profile ID: 1349205516 <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1349205516&ref=profile> My blog: worldandother.livejournal.com <http://worldandother.livejournal.com>
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