Samsung N210 review

Accountants everywhere should note that largely by fitting a high capacity, expensive battery, alongside good build quality and design, that Samsung continues to dominate the netbook market. There are far too many poor, cheap netbooks around, and I look forward to seeing the next version of the Samsung 1366 x 768 11.6" screen netbook, I could be tempted (especially if I could get it with XP).

By stokegabriel on 5 Mar 2010

stokegabriel - Why would you want xp over win 7? The latter is so far ahead of XP in every single imaginable way that it makes XP look like a hand-held calculator.

By ralphuk100 on 6 Mar 2010

Win 7 starter!

ralphuk100 - the nicest part of XP is that it runs XP programs. The Samsung's flavour of 7 (starter) won't allow you XP Compatibility mode.

Personally, I use HFSLIP to slipstream hotfixes and nLite to remove garbage to make my XP install just how I like it. No frills. I don't want to even notice the OS. Can't do that with Win7...

By Woodnag on 6 Mar 2010

XP

Anyone know whether it will be available with XP? I need to buy a few netbooks for work, and they've got to have XP - our VPN doesn't work with Windows 7. I've bought NC10s in the past and would happily go for Samsung again, but Windows 7 is no use.

By davidbryant4 on 8 Mar 2010

VPN and XP

@woodnag and @davidbryant4:
i've just bought one of these with Win7 on it, and set my VPN client prog to run in "WinXP sp3 compatibility mode" which worked fine. Good work-around that may work depending on what VPN system you're using. Win7 is much better, even the 'starter' version that comes with the N210. Fast, stable, clean; what's not to like.

By Leaps on 9 Apr 2010