Samsung NC20
>> Dan: I'm Dan Ackerman and we're here taking a look at the Samsung NC20. Now this NetBook stands out from the crowd for a couple
of reasons. First, it's one of only a handful of 12 inch NetBook style laptops we've seen and at 12 inches I hesitate to even really
call it a NetBook. Secondly, it's the first laptop that we've seen with Vio new Nano CPU which is meant as a direct competitor
to Intel's very popular Atom which you find, pretty much, every other NetBook out there. So with the 12 inch screen you get a slightly
higher resolution, you get a bigger keyboard, although you lose some of that portability it's a little bit bigger and a little bit
heavier than what you might be used to in a NetBook. I think the only other NetBook that hit the 12 inch mark that we've looked at
is the Dell Mini 12 which, you know, seemed like a good idea at the time but was standard with Windows Vista instead of XP like on
the Samsung so it was kind of hard to use. So the big question is how does the new Vio Nano compare to the Intel Atom, well it's
always good to see some competition. The Atom has really been the dominant player in this space for a long time some of the very first
Netbooks we looked at almost 2 years ago had older Vio processors and they were just terrible they just couldn't handle it. The new
Nano, however, pretty much tied the Atom in our benchmark test. The Atom was faster in a couple tests; the Nano was faster in a couple
of tests so possibly the best thing we could say about the Vio Nano is using the NC20 versus an Atom powered NetBook we really couldn't
tell the difference between which one we were using. So if you look closely you'll notice that this is actually a Korean version of
the NC20 it's not actually out in the U.S. yet but it should be soon Samsung has only recently entered the U.S. market they're still
kind of feeling their way through the waters here. I'd look for it later in the spring probably between 5 and 600 bucks. I'm
Dan Ackerman and that's the Samsung NC20.
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