Samsung N120 Review

The Samsung N120 is the company's latest entry into the 10-inch netbook market. The N120 has typical netbook specifications but sets itself apart with an eye-catching design, light weight, and long battery life. Read on for our take.

Build and DesignAll netbooks generally have the same specifications so the design is everything when it comes to selling a netbook. Samsung's designers did an excellent job with the N120 – it is one of the most visually attractive netbooks I have seen to date. The N120 manages to look great from every angle.

Review of Asus Eee PC 1000HE

Full review of Asus Eee PC 1000HE
Asus started the netbook craze with its tiny, 7-inch Eee PC. Shortly thereafter, every notebook manufacturer except Apple produced at least one tiny and inexpensive laptop just like it. Nowadays, netbooks are not that tiny anymore - little by little they have increased in size from 7" via 9" and now the standard screen size of a netbook is 10 inches. Even a couple of 12-inch models have been released.
Hardware
What they all have in common is the hardware - with a few deviations it consists of an Intel Atom CPU at 1.6GHz, 1GB or RAM, a 160GB hard drive and integrated GMA950 graphics. The Eee PC, however, has been upgraded with an ever so slightly faster 1.66GHz Atom processor and a higher 667MHz FSB speed instead of earlier models which had 533MHz.

XPS Lifts Dell's Game

The Good Dual-core chip and high-end graphics will impress multimedia junkies
The Bad Be prepared for sticker shock. So-so software suite out of the box
The Bottom Line Solidly built machine for recording and watching shows, playing games, and editing photos
When Dell introduced its XPS line of desktop computers a few years back, the idea was to get in on the small but lucrative market for high-end gaming machines