Siu Lun

Just got myself a netbook today. The Samsung NC1. I was in the market for a lightweight work laptop, and was looking at the likes of the Macbook Air and Sony TT. They were simply too expensive for me, and then I came across netbooks.

Having read through all the reviews of all netbooks that are out. I can safely say that I got the best one out there at the moment. The Samsung NC1 has 6 hours of battery life while I work full speed on web development work. Which is pretty good for a thing that weighs just over 1kg and it’s 1/4 of the price of the low end Macbook Air!

I did have some issues with it at first. As in – there is Windows XP HOME! edition installed… which means I don’t have IIS and no advanced security setups, but still I managed to install Apache 2.2, PHP and MySQL on here just fine and have been working out it while I’m out and about.

The other issue was the CPU wasn’t able to handle CCCP-Project’s H264 decoders and my HD anime are out of sync. Luckily found a solution for that which is to install CoreAVC’s decoder on top of CCCP-Project and disable CCCP-Project’s H264 video decoding so that it is handled by CoreAVC.

That works a charm . CPU utilisation on this baby while watching HD is only around 50-60%.

The other thing I’ve done on here is to install NOD32, which is “supposed” to be the fastest AV software out there, and since I’m on a 1.6Ghz Atom processor, I need every last bit of juice I can get out of this baby.

It’s been working well for me so far.