So I've got a Samsung NC10 coming tomorrow

[Rik]

... any tips? I plan to upgrade the memory to 2GB, but I've heard the 'door' is a bit fiddly, any advice?

Curious thing, I tried to order from Amazon, but although saying it was in stock, they quoted 1-2 months for delivery. So, I bought it from Misco, same price, but went back to the Amazon site this afternoon for another reason and just re-checked, now they are offering delivery tomorrow. 

[Glenn]

They had heard how dodgy you are and don't want your business 

[Rik]

After all the Le Creuset we bought from them?

[Steve]

Have you seen this Rik? At least its got a door/flap with the advent 4211 you've got to take the whole back off and not loose any of those tiny screws. I wonder why are you upgrading the memory? Surely you can't be thinking of using Vista

My Advent 4211 has had to go back to the menders, only had 5 months use and I am fairly sure its got a hardware fault with frequent crashes and bsod's which are not rectified by several destructive reinstallations using the EISA partition and the USB recovery disk. Even a known functioning backup on the WHS still crashes.

If the Samsung has an EISA partition I would strongly recommend creating the USB recovery disk first off.

[Lance]

... any tips? I plan to upgrade the memory to 2GB, but I've heard the 'door' is a bit fiddly, any advice?

That's you busy for the rest of tomorrow then!

[Sebby]

Let us know how it goes, Rik.

[JB]

Let us know how it goes, Rik.

Ditto.

Very interested to hear how you get on with it Rik and your overall impressions.

[Rik]

Thanks, Steve. The memory upgrade won't be immediate as I plan to use the Crucial scanner, so haven't ordered yet. More thoughts in due course.

[Steve]

Obviously you will have no cd\dvd drive but never had any issues copying the software install disks to usb stick and then preceding with the installation,This forum and wiki has some useful info for the msiwind which is a very similar atom based netbook

[Rik]

Thanks, again, Steve. I'm just busy copying stuff to a flash drive as we speak.

[Steve]

Well! City Link not been yet?

[Rik]

Oh yes, it was here about 9:30 yesterday, and I've just upgraded the memory to 2GB thanks to excellent service from Crucial.

My first impressions are entirely positive, they keyboard is about on par with a normal notebook, the screen is excellent, sharp and bright enough for use outside. Wireless reception seems effortless. It did appear to auto-detect and join my LAN, but I'm not sure whether I imagined that. Similarly, it appeared to auto-detect a Laserjet which runs off the router.

My only complaints are (1) the touchpad, but I never get on with those and (2) the number of Windows updates I needed.

I've nearly got it whipped into shape for real use now.

[Steve]

Good , The trackpad is small but I managed to adjust the settings on my netbook to make it usable. I suspect mine will go to one of the spotty ones when it returns from the menders

[Rik]

Have you discovered a way to turn off Bluetooth to save power, Steve? I've got it stopped, but I'm not sure that saves power. If the battery meter is right, though, it may not matter - it's promising 7 hours. The 2GB of RAM from Crucial arrived this morning, and is now installed.

[Simon]

Glad to hear it's working out well, Rik. 

[Rik]

I even managed to get the screw back into the memory cover.

[Sebby]

[Rik]

Yes, miracles do happen.

[Steve]

Have you discovered a way to turn off Bluetooth to save power, Steve? I've got it stopped, but I'm not sure that saves power. If the battery meter is right, though, it may not matter - it's promising 7 hours. The 2GB of RAM from Crucial arrived this morning, and is now installed.

On the Advent Fn F11 toggles bluetooth and wireless on/off .Certainly when indicator light is not lit neither function is available

[Rik]

I can turn the wireless adaptor on and off via a function key, Steve, but not Bluetooth, nor is there an indicator for it.

[Steve]

I presume you have therefore disabled broadcom 2045 in device manager? If you search for the Samsung with another device and don't find it one would think you've succeeded. Not sure how much of a battery drain bluetooth is on this machine

[Rik]

Neither am I, Steve, as it doesn't even offer it as a power saving option in DM. I think what I'll do, now I've finished setting it up and fine tuning it, is run the battery down, see how much time I get from it, then disable BT and repeat.

[mynnydd]

Neither am I, Steve, as it doesn't even offer it as a power saving option in DM. I think what I'll do, now I've finished setting it up and fine tuning it, is run the battery down, see how much time I get from it, then disable BT and repeat.

Hi, Rik. First up nice work on the forum
I have had my NC10 for a month now. It is so good I sold my 2coreduo, 2 GBram, widescreen laptop and desktop!
I find the built-in bluetooth great, because I text with the netbook through my mobile using the bluetooth connection. You might also consider a bluetooth mouse, seeing how you are not keen on the touchpad.
I use a microsoft bluetooth notebook mouse 5000 with mine. It is small, perfectly formed and very accurate.
Here are a couple of forums with some good advice on the NC10.
http://forum.pocketables.net/forumdisplay.php?f=76

http://www.sammynetbook.com/plugins/forum/forum.php
I have also had VISTA running on it with no problems

[Simon]

I don't know why you were missed before, but have a welcome karma, mynnydd. 

[Steve]

Useful links not come across the first site before. I note there is a thread for 2 finger scrolling which sounds a great idea on a small trackpad. Have you tried it all?