Comments on: Samsung N150 10.1-Inch Black Netbook - Up to 7 Hours of Battery Life http://www.jtxs.net/samsung-n150-101-inch-black-netbook-up-to-7-hours-of-battery-life we recommend the best stuff ! Tue, 22 May 2012 17:01:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Peter J. Murray http://www.jtxs.net/samsung-n150-101-inch-black-netbook-up-to-7-hours-of-battery-life/comment-page-1#comment-4456 Peter J. Murray Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:57:24 +0000 http://www.jtxs.net/samsung-n150-101-inch-black-netbook-up-to-7-hours-of-battery-life#comment-4456 Please see my full review on the blue variant here: Samsung N150 10.1-Inch Blue Netbook - Up to 7 Hours of Battery Life. The variants are all the same, with the exception of color. The blue is a matte blue, and this one is a shiny black. After rolling out 3 of the blue ones, I saw that this black one was available for a great price. While I'm not a fan of the shiny black, only the lid is matte, the inside is a nice matte black with a red accent trim around the side. <br /> <br />I've had some some time with this model and I'm very happy with it. Battery life has been good, they keyboard is good, the matte screen is a godsend compared to the trend towards gloss, and most importantly, the machine is extremely quiet. When the fan does run, you just can't hear it, it's obscured by the quiet hard drive noise. For those of you who are concerned with having a quiet machine, you'll be very happy. The trackpad buttons would be my only complaint, I feel they could be positioned a bit better, but the trackpad itself is very good. Please see my full review on the blue variant here: Samsung N150 10.1-Inch Blue Netbook - Up to 7 Hours of Battery Life. The variants are all the same, with the exception of color. The blue is a matte blue, and this one is a shiny black. After rolling out 3 of the blue ones, I saw that this black one was available for a great price. While I’m not a fan of the shiny black, only the lid is matte, the inside is a nice matte black with a red accent trim around the side.

I’ve had some some time with this model and I’m very happy with it. Battery life has been good, they keyboard is good, the matte screen is a godsend compared to the trend towards gloss, and most importantly, the machine is extremely quiet. When the fan does run, you just can’t hear it, it’s obscured by the quiet hard drive noise. For those of you who are concerned with having a quiet machine, you’ll be very happy. The trackpad buttons would be my only complaint, I feel they could be positioned a bit better, but the trackpad itself is very good.

]]> By: goresorearedore http://www.jtxs.net/samsung-n150-101-inch-black-netbook-up-to-7-hours-of-battery-life/comment-page-1#comment-4455 goresorearedore Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:08:43 +0000 http://www.jtxs.net/samsung-n150-101-inch-black-netbook-up-to-7-hours-of-battery-life#comment-4455 I'm sitting in an internet cafe in London, UK. I bought this netbook specifically for my 30-day Eurotrip. This morning, this netbook failed to connect wirelessly at THREE DIFFERENT HOTSPOTS near Waterloo and Bridge area. To my dismay, I noticed other customers had no such problem. <br /> <br />Since wireless is crap, this netbook is practically worthless. Adding to the problem is its dismal performance. New CPU, yes, but why is it slower than my 5-year old IBM laptop? Letters get omitted very frequently when I type because the netbook apparently can't handle my type speed. It lags all the time and starting Skype takes forever. God this is slow. <br /> <br />I don't like the touchpad, either. It likes to left-click by itself all the time so you are essentially clicking on stuff you never intended to (I noticed this problem in prior Samsung netbooks, and is still unfixed). Sometimes it gets locked up in left click mode and you have to wait 5 seconds for it to unfreeze before you can get it to snap out of it. Keyboard is also very unresponsive (laggy) and you have to press down REALLY hard. This is year 2010. What the hell is going on here. <br /> <br />It comes with Windows 7 Starter, a crippleware that doesn't even let you change the background. Also the netbook spends about two hours installing a load of bloatware. It also comes with a small 160GB hard drive and you have to partition it right away for backup purposes. Also it lets you choose your language from English/French/Spanish. All of this is irreversible, it says. Thank you, Samsung. <br /> <br />Also I should mention the battery life is variable. On my second recharge this netbook lasted less than 5 hours, and shut down with 6% power left (20 minutes). 20 minutes is a lot if you ask me and it should NOT shut down when you've lost your traveling party and you are trying to look up your hotel online. <br /> <br />I usually like Samsung. I've owned their mp3 players, LCD TVs, I guess that's pretty much it. But this one is a disaster and you should stay away from it. I’m sitting in an internet cafe in London, UK. I bought this netbook specifically for my 30-day Eurotrip. This morning, this netbook failed to connect wirelessly at THREE DIFFERENT HOTSPOTS near Waterloo and Bridge area. To my dismay, I noticed other customers had no such problem.

Since wireless is crap, this netbook is practically worthless. Adding to the problem is its dismal performance. New CPU, yes, but why is it slower than my 5-year old IBM laptop? Letters get omitted very frequently when I type because the netbook apparently can’t handle my type speed. It lags all the time and starting Skype takes forever. God this is slow.

I don’t like the touchpad, either. It likes to left-click by itself all the time so you are essentially clicking on stuff you never intended to (I noticed this problem in prior Samsung netbooks, and is still unfixed). Sometimes it gets locked up in left click mode and you have to wait 5 seconds for it to unfreeze before you can get it to snap out of it. Keyboard is also very unresponsive (laggy) and you have to press down REALLY hard. This is year 2010. What the hell is going on here.

It comes with Windows 7 Starter, a crippleware that doesn’t even let you change the background. Also the netbook spends about two hours installing a load of bloatware. It also comes with a small 160GB hard drive and you have to partition it right away for backup purposes. Also it lets you choose your language from English/French/Spanish. All of this is irreversible, it says. Thank you, Samsung.

Also I should mention the battery life is variable. On my second recharge this netbook lasted less than 5 hours, and shut down with 6% power left (20 minutes). 20 minutes is a lot if you ask me and it should NOT shut down when you’ve lost your traveling party and you are trying to look up your hotel online.

I usually like Samsung. I’ve owned their mp3 players, LCD TVs, I guess that’s pretty much it. But this one is a disaster and you should stay away from it.

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