'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.'
'IBM's smallest laptop ever - it combines true ultralight portability with all the right expansion, connectivity, and battery options for the business traveler'
'The notebook lacks parallel and serial ports (common omissions on ultraportables), and includes only a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combination drive, rather than a rewritable DVD drive.'
'great little business notebook'
'The processor racked up a paltry MobileMark 2005 Score of 142 with Wi-Fi off, more than ten points below the lowest scoring system in our ultraportable roundup last month.'
'connections on the tiny laptop are adequate but underwhelming; the system comes with one FireWire and two USB ports.'
'Press the blue Access IBM button and you'll see an explanation page about your new purchase - not generic to ThinkPads, but customised to the X41 - and which also provides a shortcut to its Protect & Recover feature.'