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Thank you for this, it never crossed my mind to calibrate my display, but I also have a GretagMacbeth eye-one display and will try this.
I’m an independent IT consultant and I keep my NC10 in my briefcase for network trouble-shooting, on-site billing, email checking (and, yes, I know my mobile will check for emails but it’s not the same), and a whole host of things. So, my partitioning was largely dictated by my intended use.
However, for what it’s worth:I loathe recovery partitions and preinstalled crapware, so I did a clean install of XP Home as supplied on the Samsung Recovery Disk using an USB boot drive created using WinSetupFromUSB as explained in the guide WinSetupFromUSB.
I reclaimed the 6 GB wasted space from the recovery partition and I have allocated the disk space (all primary partitions) on my drive as follows:
* 50 GB as partition hd 0,0 for WinXP
* 50 GB as partition hd 0,1 for Windows 7
* 3 GB as partition hd 0,2 for linux-swap
* and the remainder (about 46 GB) as partition hd 0,3 for Ubuntu 8.10
Works a treat for me 🙂
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Am very happy to have something so light and small to take with me. Am hoping this will give my longheld novel-writing ambitions a good kick in the ass.Probably not, but that was my excuse for buying this thing anyway. LOL
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My excuse was, that as an independent IT consultant, it would be really, really, really useful to have a little laptop in my briefcase for network trouble-shooting, on-site billing, email checking (and, yes, I know my mobile will check for emails but it’s not the same), and a whole host of things !lolGood luck with your writing – looking forward to reading the novel :p
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It does include 2 CDs, of which I would assume are the OS CD and Drivers & Apps CD.
If you have a USB optical drive, that’s all you need to get it on there.
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Fortunately, I’ve had no experience of Samsung’s customer services, but I have used the supplied CDs to reload Windows XP Home and have subsequently installed the other OSes I wanted to use.I loathe recovery partitions and preinstalled crapware, so I did a clean install of XP Home as supplied on the Samsung Recovery Disk using an USB boot drive created using WinSetupFromUSB as explained in the guide WinSetupFromUSB.
I reclaimed the 6 GB wasted space from the recovery partition and I have allocated the disk space (all primary partitions) on my drive as follows:
* 50 GB as partition hd 0,0 for WinXP
* 50 GB as partition hd 0,1 for Windows 7
* 3 GB as partition hd 0,2 for linux-swap
* and the remainder (about 46 GB) as partition hd 0,3 for Ubuntu 8.10
I installed the drivers from the System Software Media, but personally I haven’t installed any Samsung software – I reckon I can manage my NC10 using Windows Control Panel.
So far, I haven’t run into any problems.
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I’m really interested your top couple of tips that you’ve learnt with set up or whatever that will help me get the best from my new purchase.
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I’m afraid it’s more of an essay than a couple of tips, but my response to Elephant summarises my experiences of setting up my NC10 to suit my needs.Welcome Elephant
First, I would recommend that you boot up and check your NC10 is working properly beofre you update the RAM. Also, make sure you keep the Samsung supplied RAM – if you subsequently have a problem with your NC10, Samsung customer services will ask you to reinstall the original memory chip. Jez has written an excellent guide to installing the 2 GB RAM chip.
When you first boot your netbook, you will be prompted to partition the drive, but at this stage you can create only one partition which fills the whole drive apart from the 6 GB used for the recovery partition.
Samsung is actually very good in relation to bloatware, especially compared with Dell. However, I loathe recovery partitions and I prefer a minimum installation, so I did a clean install of XP Home as supplied on the Samsung Recovery Disk using an USB boot drive created using WinSetupFromUSB as explained in the guide WinSetupFromUSB.
I reclaimed the 6 GB wasted space from the recovery partition and I have allocated the disk space (all primary partitions) on my drive as follows:
* 50 GB as partition hd 0,0 for WinXP
* 50 GB as partition hd 0,1 for Windows 7
* 3 GB as partition hd 0,2 for linux-swap
* and the remainder (about 46 GB) as partition hd 0,3 for Ubuntu 8.10
The Samsung NC10 comes with two recovery CDs, the System Recovery Media (i.e. WinXP Home) and the System Software Media (i.e. drivers and Samsung software). When I reinstalled Windows XP, I didn’t install any Samsung software – I reckon I can manage my NC10 using Windows Control Panel. So far, I haven’t run into any problems. However, should you wish to install the Samsung drivers and software, all the latest versions may be found here.
May I suggest you try a really useful, free tool CCleaner. “CCleaner (originally CrapCleaner) s a freeware system optimisation, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! “
I also use DriverMax. “DriverMax allows you to download the latest driver updates for your computer. No more searching for rare drivers on discs or on the web or inserting one installation CD after the other. Just create a free account, log in, and start downloading the updates that you need. You can also export all your current drivers (or just the ones that work ok) to a folder or a compressed file. After reinstalling Windows you will have everything in one place!
I also use OpenOffice 3.0, Firefox, and Thunderbird on my NC10. I use Microsoft Office 2007, Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.on my other computers and have no problems transferring documents from any of these to my Sammy and vice versa.
Just one more tip. The NC10’s screen is a bit short of vertical space to display web pages. If you use Firefox as your browser, I recommend installing Ken Barbalace’s Classic Compact theme. This is “A very clean and compact theme with classic arrow buttons that minimizes space consumed by menu, tool, tab, find and status bars without hurting the overall usability.”
Sorry I’ve gone on a bit, but all the above has worked well for me. I hope this helps you too 🙂
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I am trying to keep my nc10 as clean as possible. Along with the drivers I also install atheros client utility. What do you think of it? Do you use it? Is it actually useful?
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When I first reinstalled Windows and the Samsung drivers, I did install the Atheros Client Utility (ACU), but I couldn’t find any benefit to using this rather than the Windows utility to manage wireless network connections.I also prefer to keep my installation as clean as possible and for this reason, when I finally decided on how I was going to manage my NC10, I did not install the ACU.
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how about a way ot remove it altogether? i dont think i need it that much, use my nokia e71 for my notes
[/quote1232973636]Try this how to remove windows 7 thread 🙂
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I now get a score of 5.4 for my HDD by unticking the enable write caching on the disk. It’s under drive properties policies tab
[/quote1232915813]I had a score of 5.3 for my WDC HDD with write caching enabled. Given that write caching increases system performance, potentially at the expense of data integrity, I would expect that hard drive performance would be better with write caching enabled.
However, out of interest, I disabled write caching, restarted my computer, and reran the windows experience index and my HDD score was……..5.3
I suspect that the windows experience index is calculated on the basis of raw hardware performance and is not affected by software settings which are designed to improve the day-to-day experience of working with Windows :O
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i dont want to use it any more, its installed on my D drive, do i just delete all the files?[/quote1232911762]
Hi Joe
Whatever else you do, please do not just delete all the files.
Having installed Windows 7, the boot load sequence will be controlled by the Windows 7 boot manager, not the XP boot manager. Thus, if you delete all the files, you will not be able to boot into XP and will have to recover your XP installation, which risks losing your files and settings.
Personally, I always start a new computer as delivered from the factory. Then if there is a problem, you’ll know it was delivered that way.
I have upgraded my RAM and BIOS, wiped my hard drive of the recovery partition, spilt the drive into four primary partitions containing Windows XP, 7 Beta, the Ubuntu swap file, and Ubuntu 8.10. However, before I even attached a USB mouse, I started the netbook and tried all the factory default hardware and software to ensure I was happy with the ‘vanilla’ machine.
Make sure you keep the Samsung supplied RAM – if you subsequently have a problem, Samsung customer services will ask you to reinstall the original memory chip.
Hope that helps.
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ZX81, ZX Spectrum
[/quote1232895775]Thank you, Billy 🙂 I’d forgotten:
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Commodore PET
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Sincalir ZX81 and Spectrum
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Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
OK, but you have to remember I’m very old 😉
I have used the following types of hardware and the associated operating systems:
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Apple Personal Computers (MAC OS versions 7 to X inclusive)
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IBM 3090 (MVS/XA)
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IBM 3270, IBM PC/XT, AT, and PS/2 (PC DOS and OS/2)
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IBM 38xx (VM/CMS and MVS/XA)
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IBM AS/400 (OS/400)
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IBM (and compatible) PCs (MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 including the server versions)
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IBM (and compatible) PCs (various flavours of Linux, including Mandriva and Ubuntu)
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ICL 2960 (System 4)
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ICL 2966 and Superdual 2988 (VME 2900)
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Psion (Series II, 3, 3a, and 5)
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Various manufacturers’ Small Business Computers (SBCs) (CP/M v2.2)
And various mobile phone OS including Symbian 60.
