also the sound chip seems to not be able to run fruity loops studio with asio 4 all at all , the latency is over a second , I am begining to really not like this netbook , trouble is to take it back it would have to have something wrong with it , if these are issues that everyone experiences with the nc10 then I dont really see why it has won so many awards , sure the screen is nice and the hard drive is large , but I got the 3 cell battery in mine and the battery life is a joke to be honest 1.45 hours is not acceptable for a netbook in my opinion . is there any way I can increase the battery life of this 3 cell battery without resorting to switching the hard drive off and the screen brightness down to nothing , my asus 701 that is sadly dead now after two years of modding it was a much better machine than this in my opinion and that had half the processor speed of this new nc10 , anyone give me any tips to tweak this machine so it runs the software that my two year old laptop did not have any issues with , thanks