Samsung NC10 netbook
The new mini-laptop champion
16th February 2009 13:02 GMT
Running it through our standard set of benchmarks showed that the NC10 could easily keep up with the competition. It's CPU and Memory scores for PCMark05 edged it ever so slightly ahead of the other machines we've seen - but not by a drastic margin. Its hard drive performance also placed it near the top of the pack, with it only beaten by the astonishingly fast SSD in Asus' Eee PC S101.
PCMark05 Results

Longer bars are better



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