Comments on: NbC: Samsung N120 Review

By: n120 user

n120 user — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:59:19 +0000

I have one of these machines that i picked up for $299. I’m fighting the kids over who gets to use it. The battery seems to alst forever, it’s fully functional, and yes, the screen size is a bit small but for the price i’m happy to deal with it. The screen size is adequate to watch video, and there are only a few websites that require careful scrolling and panning. This is a great airplane worker – small enough for the tray table, big enough to get real work done.

I asked my office to buy two more for “floaters” that employees can grab on their way out the door for work trips.

in short, i love it.

By: Eleutheria

Eleutheria — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:52:19 +0000

PS. No sales tax

By: Eleutheria

Eleutheria — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:51:41 +0000

Thank you for your review of N120, it’s mostly convinced me to buy one – my local university has a sale, it’s priced at USD $371, and its battery is 9-10 hours (regional Hong Kong variation I’ve been told).

By: ann martin

ann martin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:36:58 +0000

I just ordered the samsung N120. I would like to play dvd movies on it. what do you suggest I do to accomplish this.
Thanks
ann

By: Jet Sun

Jet Sun — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:19:16 +0000

We did mention that two of the USB ports are chargeable on page 4, something that most other reviews missed. Also, not many mentioned the fact that the N120 has a multi-touch touchpad.

By: ckjy

ckjy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:13:14 +0000

It bears mentioning that the N120 also supports charging peripherals while in sleep mode through a BIOS setting. In addition, the internal wireless card can be changed for one that supports draft 802.11n (the Intel 5300 is your best bet).

By: Fanfoot

Fanfoot — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:25:54 +0000

Sorry, but this is stupid.

If they’re going to make it this big, the display should be BIGGER. A 1024 x 600 display has you scrolling around constantly, especially vertically. If you have room for it, a 720p display at 11″ or so would be MUCH BETTER.

Sorry, but the size of a netbook matters. I take my 9″ netbook (too small) lots of places I would never take my 13″ laptop. Make it too big and its not a netbook anymore, at least to me. If you’re going to put a 10″ display in the thing, make it no bigger than necessary. You can find perfectly acceptable keyboards on 10″ netbooks (check out the HP 2140 for example), without resorting to this.

They didn’t “squeeze” the keyboard into anything. They just cranked the bezel up until the regular keyboard fit. Not for me.

By: Tej

Tej — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:47:44 +0000

I wasn’t aware of that, thanks for the clarification!

By: ratonlaveur

ratonlaveur — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:45:11 +0000

The U.S. version has a 5200mah battery. Interesting as the U.S. N110 is 5900mah while most N110’s in Europe are 5200mah..

By: Tej

Tej — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:51:13 +0000

No doubt, everyone has a different view as what are the most important netbook considerations. We should perhaps do a poll at some point to find out what comes out on top!