Samsung n510 Laptop Review

Among all laptops the lon powered 11.6 inches Samsung N510 has grabbed my attention for the longest period of time. Well for some addition Samsung N510 was pretty much impressive and most magazines & websites gave it a five out of six star rating. We think it’s due to the keyboard and overall design and build, and the mat finished LCD display, which makes it reflection free.

Features:

The N510 is one of the first few notebooks to features the Nvidia Ion LE graphics / chipset, along with the HP Mini 311, giving it powerful graphics performance and 1080p HD playback.

Samsung N510

Technical Specification:

Along with the Ion LE, it also features
Weight : 1.41kg [3.1 pounds]
Dimensions : 289 x 200 x 31mm (WDH)
CPU : Intel Atom N280
RAM : 1GB
Display : 11.6-inch
Resolution : 1366 x 768
Graphics chipset : Nvidia ION LE
Hard disk : SATA 160GB HDD
Wireless : 802.11b/g/n

N510 has much more powerful graphics than most notebooks. It provides good battery life. 6 hours 30 minutes of light every day use, and dropping to 3 hours 45 minutes during more intensive use, such as gaming and HD playback.

The system was tested using a number of HD trailers and clips (both 720p and 1080p) and playback was smooth, with CPU usage hovering around the 25 to 30 per cent region.
The most forgotten fact is you need a software player capable of GPU accelerated video playback.Samsung does provides a piece of software in the form of Cyberlink Power DVD 8, but I recommend using the freeware Media PlayerClassic Home Cinema, whose file format support is a little wider. It’s not quite as user friendly, but it’s more powerful and lightweight.

Nvidia’s Ion chipset, the N510 is much like other notebooks. There’s 1GB of RAM in support of the Intel Atom N280 processor, which goes along at the usual 1.66GHz.It’s a combination that works so so for web browsing and other non-demanding productivity tasks, but rich media (high-res image editing, video editing etc) is really slow.There are also other hardware highlights the presence of Wireless-N Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and an HDMI output. This makes the N510 to take advantage of HD content, either goin over a network or connected to a tv or monitor.
A 160GB hard drive provides enough space for moderate photo collections,videos and music but is likely to be supplemented by external storage.

Samsung N510

LIKES/DISLIKES:

We really like the glossy black lid it makes way for a smooth, matt black finish inside and Samsung has even taken it away with glossy displays, so reflections and over distractions are greatly reduced and that’s mostly the problem that the majority faces so Samsung has made it easy.

Previous Samsung notebooks, like the original NC10 and its replacement the N110, both featured somewhat cramped efforts, But the one on the N510 is perfectly situated and best in size. It’s just like using a normal notebook!

The audio performance isn’t quite accomplished. Samsung’s best efforts to impress, adding ‘SRS 3D Sound Effect’, the two 1.5W speakers housed beneath the front edge of the machine are tinny and ineffective for anything but online video clips. Its ok, we don’t expect much more.
Battery life is always the most important factor where notebooks are concerned and one in which Samsung generally excels. This is still true of the N510, although to a slightly lesser extent. Samsung quotes a very realistic ‘up to seven hours’ and this goes pretty well.