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Samsung N140 is the Rolls Royce of the netbook world
I have had the Samsung N140 now for several weeks and am very pleased with it. The best way to describe it is as a deluxe version of the NC-10. The first thing that strikes you on opening it up is how different it looks from both the NC-10 and N110 : it has a good-quality, superbright non-glossy wide screen which looks far more chic than its predecessors; the silver edges give it an expensive-looking appearance and it seems stronger than the NC-10 as well as being more lightweight and without the finger-smudging problem. It has a fabulous 6-cell battery that SAMSUNG claims might be able to last for up to 11 hours. This is something of an exaggeration, but you should be able to get around 7+ hours out of it and more if you upgrade it to a 9-cell one. Its wifi is the best currently on the market since it can cope with b, g and also N. It has quite good speakers for its size and easily copes with BBC iplayer and their equivalents. Its RAM memory is 800MHz and not 667MHZ as you find on the NC-10. It should therefore be faster. However, you would be advised to upgrade it to 2Gb as there are times when it can appear slow. When you are in battery mode, the power settings are set to maximise battery life which means a reduction in performance which can lead to problems when watching online TV. However, you can resolve the problem by changing the power options to normal or even maximum performance. The battery life is long even when on maximum performance in my experience. I am very satisfied with my netbook and made the right choice in buying this one after waiting so long for a proper non-glossy, fast-wifi model to appear on the market and voilà, here it is...... Read more