Samsung N150 10.1-Inch Black Netbook – Up to 7 Hours of Battery Life

July 13, 2010 | By In Technology |

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  1. Tsogtsaikhan Gendenpel on July 13th, 2010

    This netbook is the best I could find for the price. It’s very light, small, and thin. I like the overall design. Highly recommended for people on the go, especially because of the great battery life.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  2. goresorearedore on July 13th, 2010

    I’m sitting in an internet cafe near the Bridge station in London, UK and this is connected to a LAN cable. I bought this netbook specifically for my 30-day Eurotrip for purposes such as: using Skype, storing pics, recharging gadgets, booking hotels, Google mapping, writing journal, etc. This morning, this machine failed to connect wirelessly at three different hotspots near Waterloo, Southwark, and London Bridge Tube stations. To my dismay, I noticed this was a problem only I had. I ended up borrowing some Russian guy’s ancient Dell at a coffee/breakfast place because my new, shiny netbook again refused to connect (the owner couldn’t figure out what the problem was, he tried restarting the machine several times but didn’t work).

    Since wireless is such crap, the value of this NETbook naturally comes into question. Adding to the problem is its dismal performance. Everything is slow, like starting Skype, opening Excel, starting Wi-Fi… Fancy new CPU, yes, but why is it slower than my 5-year old IBM. What annoys me the most is how letters get omitted very frequently when the keyboard is in use because the netbook apparently can’t handle my pathetic (90~100) type speed. You can see the individual lag spurts right on the screen as they happen. 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 previous Samsung netbooks). It feels sentient when it loads up applications, moves folders, switches windows, and scrolls around wildly all by itself. Additionally, it occasionally locks up in “left click mode” and you have to wait a few seconds for it to unfreeze before you can get it to snap out of it. Keyboard is also very unresponsive physically and you have to press down REALLY hard. Layout is pretty, though.

    It comes with Windows 7 Starter, a total crippleware that doesn’t even let you change the desktop background. Not Samsung’s fault, but still sucks. Also on initial startup the netbook spends two busy hours installing bloatware. It also comes with a puny 160GB hard drive and you have to partition it right away for “backup purposes” which I will never use because I’m not storing anything here anyway.

    Also I should mention the battery life is definitely variable. After my second recharge this netbook lasted less than 5 hours, shutting down with 6% power left (20 minutes). Why does it need that 6% if it’s going to shut down and not do anything?

    I usually like Samsung. I’ve owned their cameras, mp3 players, LCD TVs, and now a netbook I guess. But this one is a disaster. I’m not asking it to run Diablo 3. I’m not asking it to run Photoshop either (I have Picasa instead). But I expect a certain level of performance when it comes to connecting to the web!! And typing!

    UPDATE

    After London, this netbook actually did better with Wi-Fi. Now as I near the end of my trip (now in Paris) I felt bad about leaving a negative review and thought about revising it, thereby appearing more like an Neanderthal than I already am. Just then I ended up in a hostel room where a girl was Facebooking on her IBM for hours on end while my Samsung repeatedly “could not connect.” That kind of pissed me off. One may be an accident but two sets a trend and I think the connectivity issue here is real.
    Rating: 2 / 5

  3. The Book Collector on July 13th, 2010

    Before I bought the Samsung N150 I read all the reviews about this netbook and the other major brands. Comparing customer satisfaction, performance, features and user friendliness – the Samsung N150 proved to be the winner!

    In my opinion this netbook is simply the best.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  4. Kimberly M Pelletier on July 13th, 2010

    My son purchased this as a Christmas gift for my husband in 2009, 7 months later we went to unplug it and the port snapped. I called and spoke to Samsung and it was shipped to their repair place. A technician deemed it “customer caused damage” and the warranty was null and void. I then spent 20 minutes on the phone with Samsung stating it was not dropped and all I did was unplug it. They wanted $50 just to tell me what’s wrong with it and then how much it would be to get it fixed. What a joke! The whole computer cost us under $300, this is just another example of corporations/manufacturers not taking responsibility.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  5. Patti Fischer on July 13th, 2010

    I’ve had the Samsung N150 since March and really love it. It’s light and fast, which is exactly what I was looking for as far as a netbook. I feel like I got a winner in my book. I did add/adjust some things on the N150.

    –Upgraded to 2GB

    –After about 6 weeks of owning, I upgraded to full version of Windows 7. Glad I did. The basic starter version is eh…okay, but full version is much better. I think it even runs faster than before the upgrade.

    –I ditched the free McAfee virus protection and went with the free Windows Securities Essential. Easy to install and unobtrusive, unlike McAfee. (Be sure to remove McAfee first)

    –The N150 comes with a free trial of WORD 2007 and I got lucky in that I had bought a copy of Home & Student 2007 eighteen months ago. It allows me to use for up to three computers, so all I had to do was type in the code and have full use of WORD 2007.

    The Samsung N150 starts up fast and the screen is bright and clear. I haven’t tried to power down the battery yet, but have used it for three hours with no problems. One suggestion I have is to NOT put in a flash drive at start up. I had the netbook lock up at start up before I figured out it was the flash drive.

    Overall, I highly recommend the Samsung N150 for anyone looking for an excellent, well-built netbook.

    Rating: 5 / 5

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