Samsung NC110 review

As we’ve come to expect from Samsung’s netbooks, the NC110’s battery life was outstanding. It lasted for over eight hours in our light-use test. Weighing only 1.5kg, it’s light enough to carry around all day, so it makes an ideal companion for browsing the web or checking email on the move. You could even watch a couple of movies: the internal speakers are surprisingly loud, but they lack bass.

The 10.1in screen’s 1,024×600 resolution is cramped, however, and we wouldn’t want to work on large spreadsheets or multiple documents for long. We’re not sure if it was the dull backlight or the matt screen finish, but the NC110’s colours were flat and contrast poor. A slight blue cast made skin tones cold.

If you have £300 to spend, you might prefer a tablet to a netbook. Unless you work a lot on office documents you wouldn’t miss the keyboard, plus tablets are far lighter and better suited to mobile use. Advent’s Vega is cheaper but can play HD video, for example, and if you spend a bit more, you could get the Asus Eee pad Transformer, which is far more powerful and comes with a keyboard.