Product Description

The NC20's class leading design and high performance features let you do even more on the move. The superb look and feel of its slim and elegant chassis is accentuated with unique styling, and mirrored by the high quality of its components and materials. Even though it is one of the worlds lightest netbook in its 10.2" class, weighing just 1.5kg with a powerful 6 cell battery, the NC20's innovative design is packed with the latest technology for maximum mobility and productivity. It also incorporates a range of practical features, like a normal-size, ergonomic notebook PC style keyboard, to simplify life on the move. So when you need to stay in touch, but want to make a good impression the NC20 makes complete sense.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21320 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: NP-NC20-KA03UK
• Released on: 2009-04-05
• Platform: Windows XP
• Dimensions: 3.31 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
SAMSUNG NC20 is the new full size netbook which balances supreme mobility and convenience. It has a 12.1" WXGA (1280 x 800) wide screen display like normal 12.1" notebooks and a larger keyboard with a standard 18.5mm key pitch.

VIA Nano™ processor
Building on the market-leading energy efficiency of the VIA C7® processor incorporating 65 nanometer process technology, the VIA Nano processor offers up to four times the performance over previous generations within the same power range for the ideal blend of powerful performance and energy efficiency for a longer battery life.

Larger screen size
Provides a full screen resolution compared to small netbooks with a 12.1" LED wide screen display, supporting a WXGA (1280 x 800) resolution that is exactly the same as a normal 12.1" notebook.

Class leading craftsmanship
A class leading design lets you do even more on the move - and still look good! Its slim-line chassis is accentuated with unique colours, haptic styling and high quality components.

Anti-bacterial keyboard
Uses Silver Nano Technology to coat the keyboard with incredibly small silver ion powder, which makes it impossible for bacteria to live and breed, creating a more hygienic personal computing environment.

Video-conferencing
An integrated 1.3 mega pixel digital motion camera makes it easier than ever to keep in touch with friends and family, using video-conferencing or live messaging.
Based on factory specifications

Genuine Microsoft Windows® XP Home
Packed with multimedia features, Windows XP Home Edition aims to unlock the full potential of your netbook. Designed exclusively for home computing, Windows XP Home Edition puts the exciting experiences of the digital age at your fingertips. From digital photos, music, and video to building a home network, Windows XP Home Edition brings you into the digital age with ease.

'Normal' notebook style keyboard
Incorporates a normal-size notebook PC style keyboard for easy typing. Its ergonomic design and optimised 18.5mm key pitch helps ensure less strain on your wrists, faster typing and fewer errors.

Robust chassis, durable and reliable
Shielded by a robust Protect-o-Edge chassis ensuring reliability and durability, giving you added peace of mind. A grueling series of 54 quality assurance tests set new standards for survivability and resilience.

Fully featured for simple data sharing
Enables simple data sharing with a host of advanced connectivity tools, including a 3 in 1 memory card reader, 3 built-in USB ports, and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate).
Based on factory specifications

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Customer Reviews

Great machine
I've had my NC20 for about a month and it's a great little machine.

Firstly, delivery with Amazon was excellent. It arrived in 3 days from point of order, with super saver delivery.
Unfortunately the first one we got had an intermittent fault with the network adapter, however Amazon had a replacement with us within 2 days, so wasn't a problem at all.

As for the machine itself, it does everything I'd hoped for. It's small, compact and light, but the screen is a really great size to work on. More importantly the resolution (1280x800) is MUCH better than on 10" netbooks, no problems viewing webpages and no excessive scrolling.
We're using it daily, so it makes all the difference. I personally think 10" netbooks are just too small for regular use.

Speed wise, it's absolutely fine. It's no dual core desktop machine sure, but it's not supposed to be. It runs browsers and office programs with no issues. I can also output to my 37" TV and play Divxs with no issues at all too.
I've actually got a program called 'Labview' (a programming program)which is pretty demanding and it runs quicker on here than on much higher spec machines I've used it on.

One thing I've done however is ditch the McAfee software. This pretty much halved the boot up time and makes it run loads quicker under normal use. I'm sure it does its job, but it makes the machine run soooo much slower it's just too annoying.

Generally Im very pleased with it.
The only downside is the gloss finish on everything. Finger prints are left on the top and on the screen (if you were to accidentally touch it) and you find yourself constantly wiping them off. It'd like a black car... looks lovely when clean but gets dirty in the blink of an eye.

Excellent
I find this little Netbook perfect for my needs. I wanted a PC to sit on the sofa with at night and surf/work on & this is ideal. First one was faulty but Amazon were 1st class and a replacement was gained painlessly. The screen size is just right for me. I think the 10" NC10 would have been a bit too small for me as the NC20 is still a very lightweight, compact PC. I have loaded Office 2007 Professional on and it is still flying. All in all highly recommended.

Excellent Notebook
I was looking for a light weight notebook at an affordable price. The 10" netbooks were not suitable for me for few reasons (10" does not have a comfortable key board, too much scrolling, Intel Atom processor is not good for movies). So I was left with two choices. Dell Mini 12 or a long wait for Samsung NC20. I waited and waited for the black one. This is an excellent notebook. I call it a notebook since it is powerful enough to do little processor intensive tasks. The keyboard is very comfortable. 160GB hard disk is sufficient for me. When it fills up, i can replace it with a higher capacity hard disk if I want to which was not possible in Dell mini 12. The display is sharp and bright. The finish of the laptop is excellent. While watching movies the processor is not overloaded unlike atom. That gives a smooth movie experience on a comfortable screen size. The battery life is 4 hours plus is quite an advantage. I do not take the charger with me. That saves about half kilogram in weight. I do not know of any other laptop/netbook weighing less than 2 kilograms with 12" or more screen size with 4 hours battery life for less than £400. So I am quite happy about what I waited for. I was using an old notebook with its page-up/down keys on the top right hand side corner. In NC20 it is near the up/down arrow keys. This is more convenient but took a few days to adjust myself.

But there are few things that I would like to have differently.
1) The charger and its wires are heavy, messy and not flexible. It could have been better, thinner and more flexible. The charger output is 19V, 2.1A. That means about 40W. Its mains wire is as thick as that of a 1kW iron box. Remember that there is no space for this charger in the sleeve Samsung provides with NC20.
2) I would like to have a small pouch for charger and its wires.
3) It looks to me it is like taking long time to charge the battery to full (2 hours or more.)
4)The short right shift key and the position of backslash key near right shift key is a trouble at least at the beginning.
5) Samsung should have given an official upgrade to 2GB RAM.
6) Linux users will have some trouble with the display drivers. Openchrome is not stable yet for NC20. Jaunty does not install out of the box. WLAN also does not work out of the box in NC20. This is one reason I can not give top score to NC20.
7) Samsung could give an Ubuntu version of NC20. It would have saved me money as I an not windows user. I have all the free productivity/office tools in Ubuntu.
8) Sometimes it is difficult to feel the boundary of touch pad. A little different texture of the touch pad would have solved it. Until then they could fix the big Samsung sticker on the right hand side. It will act as guide for right handers like me.
9) The sleeve that comes with NC20 is very convenient and light. But it may not protect the netbook as it is very thin.
10) I think the processor (VIA Nano) heats up a little bit. There is a fan running. This is one disadvantage compared to Dell Mini 12 which I guess is fan-less.