@gurnaik: It takes about 33 seconds to boot into XP on LG's LX110 netbook - oops, have I just given away an upcoming review?
@Thomas: Yes, unfortunately. Nothing yet has beaten the NC10 {http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2008/11/17/Samsung-NC10---10-2in-Netbook/p1}, but we're reviewing yet more models in the near future. Keep an eye out!
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I have just bought this exact model for £209. The keyboard is admittedly tacky but the NB100-128 is, nevertheless, outstanding value. As Smindo says above, I am a "happy man".
I'm very happy with the NB100. I bought it because even though it's screen size is 8.9" it fills a similar form factor to my old EEEPC700 hence it fits in my old cases, even with the added battery bulge.
It runs Ubuntu Lucid dual booting with XP with no problems and compatibility is great.
As a musician I take it on all gigs and tours with me and it's done a fair few miles in it's time and never leaves my side. It's tough, reliable, fairly swift, and battery life is great - and if you get the 6 cell battery rated at about 8000mAH it runs for a stonking 9 hours in low power mode or about 6 hours in normal mode.
Yeah, it might be a bit ugly, but if toughness comes at a price of looks I'll go with the former thanks.
-The keyboard needs more tactile pressure to register key-press sometimes. So I can write, and I have to press the key again.
-The keyboard has light gray writing on the keys. and in the dark all keys are gray... It is hard to see the letters. Writing Touch is difficult for me, since I don't have very small hands.
-It is too slow to play (most) Flash-videos. So I have to download the videos and play it with K-player, which works a little better. Other pages that do Windows Media streaming or Moonlight plays high quality video in fullscreen without problems. (This one is played perfectly: http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/648669/ But lots of Youtube videos cannot be played without glitches. So I download the videos from Youtube and use a K-player which is more lightweight than the Adobe Flash player.
Except from that it is a great notebook!
+Size is very small and nice.
+Batterylife.
+Well built, sturdy.
+Built in slot for Sim-card! 3G is great. It is much faster to use internal 3G sim-card straight into the notebook, than to do tethering via a mobile phone.
+Overall I am very happy about this notebook. Except for the colors on the letters on the keyboard and that it cannot play Youtube videos without lots of glitches in Windows XP, this is a great notebook.
I will try Ubuntu later. Maybe it can do Flash-video much better. Or I will try to ensure that the flash-player uses hardware acceleration. I don`t know if it already has it. It is Flash version 10.1 I guess.
How is Youtube videos on this Notebook with Ubuntu 10.04? Anyone?
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