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I’ve a Toshiba laptop that is over 20 years old
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Which has been in daily use since 1989 ๐In 1999, I reluctantly retired my Dell laptop which I’d bought for more than รยฃ4,000 in 1995 and which had a 12 inch colour screen, 24 Mb RAM and a 500 Mb HDD.
How can you compare this with a รยฃ300 netbook with 1 Gb RAM and 160 Gb HDD ๐
[EDIT] By the way, several months ago I found one of the feet off my NC10 on my desk and I stuck it back on with SuperGlue – and I didn’t bother with degreasing!
I bought a 9-cell 7800 mAh from http://www.laptop-adapters.co.uk. The cost was รยฃ35.21 + รยฃ4.87 p&p = รยฃ40.08. I ordered the battery on 14 January and it arrived on 26 January from Hong Kong. The customs form was marked as gift and, so far, I haven’t been charged import VAT nor the importer’s (Royal Mail) handling charge.
I’ve now used the new battery for about three weeks and I’m getting about 7 hours battery life. I use a BT wireless mouse, have the screen brightness turned up to maximum, and I have the wireless network connection permanently turned on and connected.
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I have an N130 with 2gb of ram and HD videos on youtube lag and are impossible to watch.
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Have you tried Alfihar’s fix ๐[quote1266525465=jasoN_mcallister]
Just out of curiousity, what would you use the blutooth for?
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Bluetooth (BT) mouse ๐Connection (i.e. synchronisation) with BT smart phone ๐
BT headphones ๐
BT speakers ๐
[quote1266525200=jasoN_mcallister]
Just be careful what sites you visit, emails you open from people you don’t know etc. You can use clamwin and that is a great program for antivirus that won’t be taking up resources.
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FWIW Microsoft Security Essentials is also quite light weight ๐[quote1266523963=Fat Controller]
Next to search for a decent 7800 MAh battery – is there a recommended UK one?
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Depends how much you want to pay ๐Initially I looked to buy a UK sourced 7800 mAh battery….but the average cost was ~รยฃ50 + p&p – which cost up to another รยฃ10!.
On recommendation from another forum member, I ordered a replacement battery from the USA. I ordered one on the morning 14 January 2010 for $51.25. With the current exchange rate applied by PayPal, I was charged รยฃ32.33 including international p&p:
This seemed like an absolute bargain as UK suppliers charge ~รยฃ50 and then add p&p (which in one case was รยฃ10!).
I checked the HMR&C website and, because the value of the goods imported is > รยฃ18, it seems I’d have to pay import VAT @17.5% รขโฐห รยฃ5.66 + the handling charge added by the importer. If the importer is Royal Mail, the handling charge is รยฃ8, so the total price I’d have to pay should be ~รยฃ46 which is still cheaper than buying it in the UK.
Another forum member suggested I buy a 9-cell 7800 mAh from http://www.laptop-adapters.co.uk. The cost was รยฃ35.21 + รยฃ4.87 p&p = รยฃ40.08. I ordered the battery on 14 January and it arrived on 26 January from Hong Kong. The customs form was marked as gift and, so far, I haven’t been charged import VAT nor the importer’s (Royal Mail) handling charge.
I’ve now used the new battery for about three weeks and I’m getting about 7 hours battery life. I use a BT wireless mouse, have the screen brightness turned up to maximum, and I have the wireless network connection permanently turned on and connected.
Hi Mark and welcome to the forum ๐
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I’ve got a 500 gb hard drive to install
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I’ve upgraded the HDD on my NC10 to a 500Gb Seagate Momentus 7200.4 HDD with G-Force Protection. Instructions for upgrading the Samsung NC10’s Hard Drive should help you install your 500 Gb HDD.[quote1265995740=markevans135]
windows 7 ultimate…How can i install without a dvd drive? i’ve got one on order, but can i do it via usb stick?? if so, how!!??
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You need access to a CD/DVD drive on another computer which you use to create a USB boot drive from your Windows 7 DVD (load it on a USB stick).You then need to enter your Sammy’s BIOS (by pressing the F2 key as your Sammy is starting) and make the USB stick the first boot device.
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I’ve go the nc10 with the built in sim card slot, and want to use my “3” network simcard, i see from the forum that i will need to install samsungs own conection manager software for it to work, but can’t find a version of that on the samsung website for windows 7??
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I’d be inclined to ask Samsung technical support about this – unless another forum member knows how to install Samsung’s connection manager software ๐Hope that helps ๐
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When I playback things like iPlayer it is really choppy, more like watching a slideshow that a program, can anyone help with narrowing down the cause?
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Have you tried Alfihar’s fix in the thread [N110] N110 Video problems ๐[quote1265883323=jeepers01]
ok talo – I’ll step up and say welcome to the forumIt’s time to redeem thyself ๐
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I think it’s booting up, just can’t see anything ๐
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You could use an external monitor to see if it is booting up ๐[quote1265840037=Domino]
Does anyone know if it’s it easy to replace the screen
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Replacing the LCD screen is discussed in a number of threads, including these:-
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Everything you need to know if you’ve cracked your lcd screen
*NC10 Blue Screen cracked, replacement?
Hope this helps.
