It appears that Samsung still has the netbook to beat in the N110, the $469 replacement of the NC10 that increases battery life to over seven hours of real world use, swaps in a glossy lid, and rounds out the front corners while staying under three pounds with a six-cell battery.
The keyboard stays the same as the NC10’s, which is a good thing according to LAPTOP. The touchpad gets a slight bump in size and the single rocker-style mouse button gets raised up a tiny bit but still “lacks a divot to separate the left and right sides.”
Most everything else between the NC10 and the N110 stays the same – 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB Ram, 160GB hard drive, XP Home – but the incremental upgrades, plus almost 7.5 hours of continuous web surfing makes the N110 the top dog in the 10.1-inch netbook class.
[via LAPTOP]
Very nice battery life. It’s always amazing to think that they put can put men on the moon but they can’t get a friggin’ laptop to last more than a few hours. Never made sense.
FALSE. I own an ASUS 1000HE that gets better battery life, with a similar 10.1″ screen.
Other sites have claimed longer battery life for the 1000HE. LAPTOP itself claims it gets 7:08, with 7:24 for the new Samsung N110.