Samsung NF310 Netbook Review

Overview

Samsung NF310 Netbook Review, price, features, spesification. The Samsung NF310 is a 10.1-inch netbook with special wave design which gives it a distinctive look. Performance wise, it's similar to its 2 competitors, the Eee PC 1015PEM and Aspire One D255, which offers great porformance for web browsing, document processing, and doing most of the tasks you generally do on a computer, but not for CPU-heavy tasks like gaming and video editing.

Its 6 hours battery life is shorter than its competitors, and $399 price tag is higher than other netbooks of its class. However, it boasts a modern-looking design, a 1366 x 768 high-resolution display, excellent quality stereo speakers, and Fast Start Technology (instant recovery from sleep mode), which are not found on its competitors.

Best Price: $341.99

Samsung NF310 Review Summary

Design
The Samsung NF310 measures 1.2 x 10.8 x 7.4 inches and weight 2.8 pounds. While it’s a little bit thicker than a typical 10 inch netbook, its wavy design and metallic paintjob somehow makes it look classy. It has a glossy lid which attracts some fingerprints, but not too many. Samsung currently offers only one color option for this netbook — charcoal gray. We wish Samsung would offer more color options in future.
Keyboard and TouchPad
The NF310 comes with a 95 percent full size keyboard, which offers great typing experience — almost as comfortable as typing on a full-size laptop. Most keys are large enough and well-placed, including the two wide shift keys on both sides of the keyboard. The 2.9 x 1.5-inch touchpad is also comfortable to use. There’s a nice texture to the touchpad which makes sliding very easy, and it offers multi-gesture support which is generally less finicky than the one on Eee PC 1015PEM.
Performance
The main specs of the NF310 are identical to those found on the Asus Eee PC 1015PEM and Acer Aspire One D225: 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 dual-core processor, 1GB of DDR3 RAM, Intel’s integrated GMA 3150 graphics, and 32-bit Windows 7 Starter edition.
As expected, the NF310 performs similarly to its 2 competitors as well, scoring 1,646 in PCMark05 and 147 on 3DMark06. Here’s the benchmark score comparison for the 3 netbook:

	Samsung NF310	Asus Eee PC 1015PEM	Acer Aspire One D255
PCMark05	1,646	1,729	1,696
3DMark06	147	149	151

Overall, all 3 systems are pretty close to each other in terms of performance. They offers decent performance for web surfing, document processing, watching locally stored HD videos, and doing most of the tasks you generally do on a computer. But it wouldn’t be the best device for gaming, watching HD Flash video online, and doing some CPU-heavy tasks like editing video files or running Photoshop to edit high resolution images.
Battery Life
The NF310 comes with a 6-cell 48Whr battery, which Samsung claims will last for up to 9.4 hours. This is when the netbook is in idle state with minimum screen brightness and WiFi off. For day to day use, you should get around 6 hours of battery life if you do continuous web surfing over WiFi at 60 percent screen brightness. This is 2 hours shorter than its competitors, the Eee PC 1015PEM and Aspire One D255, but still pretty good for a netbook.
 

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