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Hi All,
In about a month I am going to visit my brother who lives in New Zealand. I’m going to do a little travelling beforehand, so something like an NC10 will be ideal while I’m moving around from place to place.
However when I get to NZ I will be needing to do some work (I’m a web developer) and as such I can’t see myself being happy coding on the NC10’s keyboard or monitor as they’re just too small to allow me to code easily with lots of windows open.
So my plan is to buy a monitor (22″, 1680×1050 minimum) while I’m out there and just plug it into the NC10. However, I’m just a little worried the NC10 (or possibly NC20) may not be up to driving a large monitor at high resolutions etc. I’m doing PHP coding, some flash programming and some basic photoshopping. Is the NC10 up to running IE, Dreamweaver, mySQL etc while driving an external monitor at decent resolutions?
Thanks for any replies.
The Maximum Resolution the GFX-Card can handle is 2048 x 1536 Pixel True Color for a external Display.
So apart from the somewhat underpowered CPU you should have no issues using a NCxx for WebDesign.
By saying this i mean that Dreamweaver and php will work just fine while Flash might have some performance issues. Nothing serious, basically some operations might take a bit longer but everything should be usable.
Hi Don,
Thanks for the info. That’s the one thing I’m a little worried about; whilst I don’t require a massive powerhouse of a laptop, it would be nice to have a decent amount of power.
The trouble is, I have an Eee 701 which is probably skewing my perceptions of how fast the new generation of netbooks are. I get pretty annoyed with how slow it is even browsing the web as I tend to have about 6 or 7 tabs open at once and flash banners seem to pretty much kill it.
Do we know whether the NC20’s CPU is any better than the NC10 in real world applications yet?
Thanks…
I can’t speak for the NC20 but the 1,6GHz Intel Atom CPU used in the NC10 is way more powerfull than the underclocked Celeron 900MHz running @ 630MHz used in the 701.
Multitabbed Browsing works flawless even with Content Rich Websites build around Flash.
As long as you dont want to render After Effects files or recode whole Movies the NC10 should work just fine for you.
strange the highest resolution i get get my nc10 to display on a monitor is 1360×768, but anyway i use a 42″ lcd monitor (hdtv) and it looks very good. at 1280×768, can see good text for reading websites and emails etc. on a massive screen.
the 1360×768 maximum is the limit on the windows options, i got the same result for my 42″ and my 19″ monitor.[quote1236095261=beach]
strange the highest resolution i get get my nc10 to display on a monitor is 1360×768, but anyway i use a 42″ lcd monitor (hdtv) and it looks very good. at 1280×768, can see good text for reading websites and emails etc. on a massive screen.
the 1360×768 maximum is the limit on the windows options, i got the same result for my 42″ and my 19″ monitor.[/quote1236095261]
same here. I connected my nc10 to my sammy 32 LCD tv via VGA and it’s crystal clear. The texts on the website or documents are as clear as they can be and movie playing is as pleasant as it can get.
When I feel a little claustrophobic with too many windows and tabs open, I just connect it to my LCD TV and it’s a lot better to work.I got the max resolution 2048 x 1536 info from the Samsung Website.
Can anyone confirm a higher resolution than the 1360×768 beach mentioned?
Ok so i checked this out real quick and the maximum resolution is indeed 2048 x 1536.
If you cant select it its simply a limitation of your Screen sent over the DDC.
Wombar,
I am also a web developer I use the nc10 as my second laptop, in much the same way you are intending to. I currently use visual studio 2008 and 2005, sql server 2005 and 2008, dreamweaver, fireworks, flash, and photoshop. I actually find that the nc10 is faster than my main laptop which is a dell inspiron 8600 with a pentium m 1.7 GHz processor 1.25 mb ram 120 gb hard disk 15.4 screen with 1680 x 1050 resolution.
The only limiting thing I find with the nc10 is the screen size, but I knew this when I bought it, I can develop just on the nc10 when I am traveling, but for a full days work an external monitor does help.
One thing I would recommend if you are going to be using multiple pcs is microsoft live mesh, it will automatically sync files on several pcs. For all my source code I use SVN as version control which again helps keeping more the source on multiple pcs in sync.
By the way I only have 1Gb of ram and so far I have not found this too limiting. I think that at the end of the day if you are used to a dual core pc with Gb of ram you might find the nc10 a little slow but for me it was the best £3OO I have spent this year
Thanks for the replies everyone, I really appreciate it. In the end, I decided that I really needed a little more space and a little more power on the road as, I’m going to be doing more travelling with this laptop than I initially thought. I’m also wanting to do some basic mobile audio recording via a Firewire interface so an expresscard slot was needed.
I really need more than 1024×600 as it’s going to be my main machine for a while, so that left either an NC20 or another 12″ notebook. By the time I had spec’d up an NC20 with 2Gb of RAM, it was pretty close to £400 which for me is a little too expensive for the features I was sacrificing.
I found a Samsung Q210 for £510 which looks like it should be ideal for what I need (as I really wanted an express card slot as well for FireWire). It’s a little heavier than an NC20, but meets all my requirements.
Hopefully, it will do everything I need and I’ll see if I can post a review in a few days once I’ve got myself up and running on it.
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Ok so i checked this out real quick and the maximum resolution is indeed 2048 x 1536.If you cant select it its simply a limitation of your Screen sent over the DDC.
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i just checked mine again the max it will go to is 1360 x 768 as i said above, if i untick the “hide modes that this monitor can not display” box then it can go to 2048×1536 but only virtual not all on the screen at the same time. so i think the true resolution of the chipset is 1360×768. is this the case with you or can you see the whole desktop in the very high resolution?So i connected my NC10 to a Samsung 2493HM at work and was able to set the resolution to 1920 x 1200 Pixels which is the maximum physical resolution of the Display.
As said, the lower resolution you are facing is a limitation of your Screen, and the NC10 GFX-Card knows about it because the max res. info is sent over the D.isplay D.ata C.hannel.
i wonder why it does that when i have an hdtv than i know can at least display 1920x 1080. but when connected to the nc10 can only display 1360×768. maybe software of the tv at fault?
[quote1236435369=beach]i wonder why it does that when i have an hdtv than i know can at least display 1920x 1080. but when connected to the nc10 can only display 1360×768. maybe software of the tv at fault?[/quote1236435369]
Quite a few HDTV’s may have a panel capable of displaying 1920×1080 but unfortunately are not able to accept that resolution via VGA (or other connections), and instead can only accept a lower resolution input which it scales up.
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