both of those units were great and i originally got the hp because my husband took the laptop to his office.
i also purchased the portable dvd drive and installed office 2003 and have watched several movies and it runs smooth with no problems.
i use a dell laptop at work and a mac laptop at home.
i mainly got this for a 2000 mile bicycle ride on the pacific coast and waiting for 12v charger (backordered) but with an inverter my 33 watt solar panel charges it up in around 3 hours.
so claims of it lasting up to 9.5 hours use per charge seem not to be a stretch .
if you have a desktop pc just insert the cd in the desktop drive and copy the file folders into an usb drive and in turn use it to upload office on the nc10.
again, i don't notice any real difference between running office on my work laptop or desktop.
i deliberated for a while whether to buy the special edition; it was frustrating that neither samsung nor amazon did a good job of explaining exactly what the differences would be before the se
samsung entered the netbook and notebook business this year and came in at the top end of the market in all categories, and while this netbook has the best specs on the market, i can't give it a 5
my job requires 24hr remote access and i quickly tired of carrying around a 15" laptop along with my books.
(1 day shipping, prime upgrade, to get it before leaving on a business trip.) it is a replacement for a five year old laptop that is getting a bit cranky.
the only small disappointment for me was that it did not come with a word processing program like office or ms works, but as others stated you can add what you want.
the keyboard is evey bit as good (for me) as my mac laptop at work.
the 1000he has star office on it.
the n120 runs beautifully without the upgrade, but as i will be using it for work and study i felt it should be running at it best.
of course the screen is the main thing here and i think is worth it if you want to use the laptop to see movies or read open office documents.
despite low specs, it is perfectly usable for any office/web tasks.very fast post (1 second from turn on to windows boot).
my father got the nc10 for his business, and since that was working so well (and my dell laptop was 5 years old) i decided to give the "big brother" a try.
i use it mostly at work to carry around room to room to maintain connectivity to the internet to use with our internet-based databases.
charger does get hot when it's doing its thing, but shuts itself off (feels cool to the touch) when fully charged.
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