'Build and Design The design of the Samsung NC20 is very clean with a consistent color scheme inside and outside the netbook with a thin border of chrome around the edges.'
'extremely usable 12-inch laptop'
'the Samsung NC20 was good enough for us.'
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'With a more powerful 1.6GHz Nano U225 processor the Samsung NC20 netbook is powerful enough to playback smoothly 1080p / Full HD videos.'
'Heat The ASUS 1201N stayed cool throughout our testing.'
'Build quality is very good with the 1201N feeling solid and showing almost no signs of flex.'
'well-known multi-gesture touchpad'
'We're okay with the strikingly similar design, and though the lid's glossy black finish is a fingerprint magnet, overall it's a slick-looking machine.'
'At a little more than 1 inch thick and weighing 3.6 pounds, it's certainly quite portable, but we've lately been spoiled by ultraportable laptops that break the 3-pound/1-inch barrier.'
'At a little more than 29mm thick and weighing 1.65kg, it's certainly quite portable, but we've lately been spoiled by ultraportable laptops that break the 1.3kg/25mm barrier.'
'Typing is made easy with this notebook: it's accurate, responsive and the keys feel sturdy.'
'The V100 is the smallest Lenovo 3000 laptop available; like its siblings, the C200 and the N100, the V100 is silver on the outside and dark gray on the inside.'
'The tiny system also has three USB ports, a FireWire port, and VGA output.'
'The whole laptop is very solidly constructed and generally looks great.'
'It might be external but Acer has at least given it a really cool design in keeping with the rest of the notebook – it has angular buttons and a red streak down the side – it looks like Darth Vader's personal external DVD-ROM drive - and that's a good thing.'
'Two batteries come standard, and you'll need both, as the 22-Wh (3-cell) standard battery lasted only a miserable 1 hour 20 minutes on MobileMark 2005 tests.'