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Hey guys, I was just wondering how the netbook has performed since it came out. Any faults resulting from long term use?
I’ve had my NC10 now for over 5 months, so far it’s performed almost flawlessly and nothing has gone wrong. Well nothing which wasn’t my fault anyway.
I’ve used my NC10 quite a bit and the battery is down to around 93% capacity, which is about what I would expect. This is only really an estimate anyway.
I haven’t noticed any trends on the forum where users who have owned their netbooks for a while have run into problems. If problems are going to occur they seem to be either immediately apparent of occur within a few weeks. Though problems appear to be pretty rare.
@ Alfihar
I have had my NC10 less than 2 weeks, and your comment there is encouraging. Not that I hadn’t read similar before buying anyway, obviously. My NC10 seems to be the last one sold here for several miles in any direction from where I live, I hunted at several shops all out of stock, in fact this is an ex-display one which had been in a glass display case. It appears to be one of the first batch, I believe later ones came with extra rear feet (?). I’m quite happy, that doesn’t bother me.I have defected from the Acer Aspire One (8.9″, XP, HD, upgraded to the max 1.5Gb RAM) for one main reason – screen size. There is a superb Aspire One forum, as many of you will have seen, but it does have a good deal of discussion about problems! Hence my not ‘upgrading’ to the 10″ Aspire One, and choosing this instead.
My Sammy just seems quicker. I am not really sure why as they, as most netbooks are, such similar spec. The Atheros wireless card is the same but where my One would keep dropping and reconnecting my wireless connection this one very rarely does, web pages appear to me to load faster too. I was using the latest driver on the One BTW. Everything seems a little snappier on the NC10, whether it’s down to build quality or not I’m not sure. This is a comparison with the Acer using 1.5 Gb RAM and my NC10 using the stock 1Gb so far too!
An almost complete lack of bloatware was a pleasant find, just McAfee and Acrobat reader to get rid of as I recall, I replaced those with Avast and Foxit Reader.
All in all I am very pleased to have made the change. The larger screen at the same resolution makes things just perfectly clear for me, as opposed to dreading tiny text which my poor old eyes sometimes struggled with. The One’s keyboard had rave reviews but this is a step up again I feel. Adding RAM to the One is ‘fun’, having to dismantle the whole machine to access the single slot! I did dismantle it 3 times, but that’s another story.
So, I have a nicer machine to use, which seems more reliable, with over double the battery life. Perfect.
This is a cool forum, I have used several tips here, and learnt a lot about this handy machine, so a big thanks to all contributors and a bigger one to the forum mods and to Jez, it’s creator I believe? 🙂
I would also like to report a faultless NC10 that I’ve had since Novemeber. I treat my devices as tools to be used so it has been slung in my bag and taken to work every day into central London. I had it with me whilst house hunting last weekend (having RightMove.com, Goolge maps, street view etc on the go is very helpful!). I’ve taken it away with me. And I don’t wrap it in cotton wool.
It still runs quickly on it’s original install and the build has been fine with no scratches or probs. Hopefully I’ll be saying the same in another 6 months?!
[quote1242374358=tonytb]so a big thanks to all contributors and a bigger one to the forum mods and to Jez, it’s creator I believe? 🙂
[/quote1242374358]Yep 🙂 – Amateur webmaster and Sammy fan :). But this forum wouldn’t have got anywhere without the contributors and mods that help out so thanks from me too 🙂
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I’ve used my NC10 quite a bit and the battery is down to around 93% capacity, which is about what I would expect. This is only really an estimate anyway.
[/quote1242377779]Any ideas why my one month old NC10 is also down to 93%? I can’t understand how I have got 7% wear in one month, when I have only changed the thing maybe 10 times, it doesnt get heavy usage. 🙁
[quote1242378388=stormy]Any ideas why my one month old NC10 is also down to 93%? I can’t understand how I have got 7% wear in one month, when I have only changed the thing maybe 10 times, it doesnt get heavy usage. :([/quote1242378388]
It’s probably not actually at 93%, it’s likely that the battery isn’t calibrated correctly.I would charge it up fully (until the light on the front goes green), then run the SMART battery calibration from the BIOS, once it is fully discharged charge it back up again to 100% and see if the reading is any different.
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