Looks beautiful, everything in it, but is pretty lame

I have the N220 Miri Plus (in burgundy) for several weeks now in continuous use. First of all: The device looks visually very appealing and it's pretty much all included in what I expected from a powerful netbook (for main memory I will come): Sound, 3xUSB (an active), Ethernet, Cam, microphone, Anynet, ext. Screen etc. It has an outstanding performance Accu, so you can operate without power the unit for a long time. For me, this was a decision criterion. Further Windows7. WiFi (WLAN) works great in my home and in cafes and appropriate the Internet I come with my USB UMTS Sticks and from almost anywhere. The device is handy and easy, what does woman really more?

The N220 comes with a 1 GB memory. Here on the side, I see that many have alleged the Kingston 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300 CL5 Memory Upgrades for the purpose of purchases to 2GB. To my knowledge, this card is only suitable for a 667-MHz bus. The N220 is clocked at 800 MHz, however, and consequently also needs such a card. Therefore I went to play it safe and have looked like the Samsung 2048MB PC2-6400 RAM (800 MHz) called upon me since I first did not want to engage in any discussion with the manufacturer on emerging issues. However, one should note that such a device has only one memory slot. The upgrade looks so out so that taking out the existing 1GB card and replacing it with the 2 GB card. I then placed the 1 GB card in the package of 2 GB card, because maybe I can use it again later somewhere else.

The upgrade is done very simple: On the back there is a screw-area (with a small Phillips screwdriver). In addition to the screw is lower case: "Memory". This cover must be solved in order to make the new card is inserted.

I have all this done before starting operation. After the map was immediately recognized smoothly. I can therefore say little to a speed improvement after the upgrade, although the obvious. The netbook (and I'm not talking specifically from the Samsung N220, but I suspect that all standard netbooks behave) is in fact a pretty lame case, notably, if need be accessed on the plate. For this reason such disk accesses during operation should be avoided if possible. A first step is the memory upgrade, so that there will be no memory swapping during operation.

Compared I have the system with mains operation with a nearly 10-year-old Dell desktop with Windows XP and 256 MB RAM. The processor is some old Pentium. What can I say: The Dell is faster, and indeed probably due to the faster disk access (pretty disappointing for 10 years of development progress). For example, I have a USB connected external drive (Western Digital Elements 1TB External Hard Drive WDBAAU0010HBK (8.9 cm (3.5 inches), 7200rpm, 8MB cache, USB)) a list of approximately 1 GB in size and about 55,000 files sequentially copied to both systems. The old Dell has used for about 10 minutes, the netbook against 40th

According to the long Samsung needs because even after the reboot, I therefore avoided if possible (I usually cover it too easy and later on - it works really excellent and very fast).

A bit annoying, I feel that the software installation is overloaded with all sorts of add-on programs that are beginning to ask for some time, if you wanted to purchase but they not. This also makes the computer not just faster.

Disappointing is also the weak support external monitors. It supports only the 1152x864 resolution (5: 4), 1024x768 (4: 3) 800x600 (4: 3) and the standard netbook format 1024x600 with the exotic aspect ratio of 128: 75th Thus, unfortunately, the most modern monitors such as the Samsung SyncMaster BX2450 LED 60.96 cm (24 inch) widescreen TFT monitor not do anything, the majority. 16: therefore come 9 widescreen format. For example, the aforementioned Samsung monitor from the listed options of resolution N220 only supports 1024x768 halfway passable. While remaining right and left a margin of 5 cm. So you give away a large part of the monitor.