Good netbook, but not when delivered ...

I bought this netbook as a replacement for my then distinctive Acer Aspire One L110. Since I had planned from the start to switch the OS to Linux, me included, strongly circumcised Win7 Starter did not care. Out of curiosity (as I have previously worked with either Win Vista, even with Win7) I first put the unit still in the delivery condition in operation. After an eternal Installation and backup orgy Win7 was finally ready. Unfortunately here quickly showed some shortcomings:

- The performance is overall rather modest. The desktop feels "tough" on. Programs start slowly. Surfing the web is an ordeal.
- Also, the boot process up to the open browser and standing WLAN connection lasts for a netbook too long (about 2 minutes). In the first minutes seem too much background activities are carried out that slow the Netbook additionally.
- The installed along with Samsung tools require an administrator user. Under a normal user account, the admin password is twice requested each start.

So I would have awarded a maximum of 2 out of 5 stars. However, I wanted anyway using another OS, and there things look very different. I installed the Ubuntu derivative Linux Mint 9 LXDE. The installation of the USB flash drive runs smoothly. After that is available after a short boot time (about 25s to login to continue 10s from access to the desktop, including standing wireless connection), a high-performance desktop. Small adjustment for non-functioning FN keys were due to the procedure under [...] done quickly. Also, the power management function with the Mint9 kernel problems (in newer versions Mint, there is a suspend problem, although the older kernel version is sufficient, since all hardware components are supported). Likewise, sufficient are the installed 1GB RAM, as well as in open applications (Firefox, Thunderbird) not nearly half of which is occupied. The Surfing the web is fixed, even with Flash-heavy pages.

Conclusion: 5 out of 5 stars on Linux.

Overall, I therefore give due to the defective delivery state 4 of 5 points.