Screen Size:
10.1 inches
Memory:
1 GB
Hard Drive Size:
160 GB
Touchpad
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"The touch pad was also excellent (for a small Netbook touch pad), and the specially demarcated scroll zone made it easy to vertically move up and down on long pages."
"The Synaptics touch pad is a bit small, but you can compensate for its size by learning how to use its virtual scrolling and pinch-gesture features. A single rocker button below the pad allows you to press on the left or the right; it's comfortable to use, but we prefer distinct left and right buttons."
"The touchpad, though narrow, is highly accurate and pleasant enough to use. Its mouse buttons are easy to click, but they’re controlled by a single bar without a divot."
The N120's touchpad is also well made, sporting a virtual scroll bar along the right side to make screen navigation easier. You get only a single rocker button for both left- and right-clicking, however, so if you're used to feeling for a separate button instinctively, the N120 will take some getting used to.
"The mouse buttons put up just enough resistance so as not to be hard to press, but the pinch (the space between the thumb and forefinger when you are using the mouse buttons and touchpad) could use a little widening."
Keyboard
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"The keyboard is extremely comfortable for touch-typing, thanks to its full-width keys. The layout is very good overall, with a couple of minor oddities: The space bar is slightly truncated to make room for the tilde key, which is dropped to its left, and the Windows logo key sits on the right side of the space bar."
"The keyboard has a traditional tapered key design, with individual keys that are wider at the base, and narrower at the top, instead of the flat-key design used by many Netbook makers, including Dell, HP, and Asus. However, the larger footprint allows Samsung to fit in a larger keyboard, equivalent to what we'd typically find on a 12-inch laptop"
"Getting onto usability, the full-size anti-bacterial keyboard is a pleasure to use, offering crisp if slightly shallow feedback and a nice feel."
"Samsung claims that the N120’s 12-inch keyboard is full size and therefore larger than the keyboards on most netbooks, including other 10-inch Samsungs. In measuring the G-key on several netbooks, we noted that the N120’s key was 11/16 of an inch as compared to 10/16 of an inch for those keys on the Samsung NC10, and the HP Mini 2140."
"Although the difference in key size was hardly noticeable when looking at the N120 side by side with its competitors, there’s no doubt that its keyboard is one of the best on any netbook we’ve used. All of its keys are positioned correctly, large, and offered generous tactile feedback, without any unnecessary flex"
"You get some handy shortcut keys. One launches Samsung Magic Doctor, which can perform a full system diagnosis and restore. The Speed Manager button toggles between silent, normal, and speed mode so that you can adjust performance and battery power conservation. For globetrotters, the N120 even has a euro key."
"With a wider-than-average netbook frame, the N120 was able to accommodate a full-size keyboard—the biggest on a 10-inch netbook. This makes the typing experience phenomenal—better than that of the ASUS 1000HE, the HP Mini 2140, and HP Mini 1000, whose keyboards measure 92 percent of full size."
Build Quality
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"Build quality isn't quite as impressive as previous models, with a bit of give on the chassis and a little creak on the hinge. It doesn't feel flimsy though, and the light construction helps to keep this larger machine's weight down to 1.28kg compared to 1.33kg for the smaller NC10."
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Speed show formula
To determine a netbook's effectiveness at multitasking, we combine the processor speed, with the memory size, and add in a bonus if a netbook has an SSD hard drive.
(processor speed x 2) + memory size + ssd support
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