The Features that made this a better buy than the Acer Aspire One:
1. The 10.2 inch screen. the 1024×600 resolution seems to perfectly match the screen, graphics do not seem crammed inside the screen.
2. The Keyboard. While most people shout from the rooftops about the full size right shift, I am left handed, so that did not matter. The keys are a pleasure to type on, springy enough to avoid tiring your hands.
3. Bluetooth. Tether to your favorite phone and hit the road with 3G/EVDO goodness.
4. Finally, the Battery LIFE! It is amazing, thanks to Samsung’s Battery monitor. I played CounterStrike 1.6 for 4.5 hours straight before getting bored. Doing late night homework, I started at 5, and at 12 I still had 22% or about an hour and then some remaining. As I typed this, I have 82% remaining, 5:45 min relative time.

Review Samsung NC10 Netbook

Pros:
-Amazing battery life mine lasted a little more than 6 hours at normal performance.
-You can select between Max battery life, normal and max performance which is great for saving battery life.
-Great recovery tool, it saves the initial state of your laptop in case anything goes wrong you can just go back to the beginning
- The keyboard is great, and the keys are in the right place unlike some other netbooks.
-The screen is very bright and can be adjusted, also its not glossy so you don’t have the usual glare when using it outside and its very bright when using it outdoors.
- Bluetooth and Wifi (The NC10 gets a better signal than my HP notebook).
- It runs fast.
- Great touchpad gestures.
- Very nice design i specially like the front led’s at night.
- Integrated webcam and the software for it is good, it allows you to record video and take still pictures.
- Great connectivity: 3 USB, Ethernet, External display, mic, headphones, Memory card reader, Bluetooth and Wi-fi

CONS:
- You have to get used to the keyboard and keypad, the touchpad is small, takes a little bit of getting used to but the touchpad gestures make it way easier to use and you get used to both pretty quickly.
- Was unable to install Adobe Illustrator due to the resolution of the screen (basically the screen is too small for that program) but not to worry i have it installed on my other computer.
- The memory card reader is not compatible with the Memory Stick (MS) format it only accepts SD, SDHC and MMC.
- Requires an external CD/DVD reader, but that’s to be expected on a netbook.

Its a great netbook specially because of the battery life, great for traveling and moving around, i really appreciate the freedom it gives you since my old laptop’s batteries where old and gave up in only 40 minutes, now i have 6 hours of use, its very fast with 2GB (i highly recommend buying it along with the 2GB memory).

Find cheap Samsung NC10 Netbook

thanks
-david

thanks for the post and the screen shots of lightroom in particular. I am a little surprised you didn’t include anything about using an external monitor with it though. I guess the purpose is a small portable computer and when you are home then you are using another machine.

cheers
-david