Samsung N130-13B 10.1-Inch Slate Blue Netbook - Up to 6.2 Hours of Battery Life

by Samsung

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9.8 x 5.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002QQ1XS4
• Item model number: NP-N130-KA04US
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,616 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 25, 2009

Product Description

N130 - Intel - ATOM - N270 - 1.6 GHZ - DDR2 SDRAM - 1 GB - Serial ATA - 160 GB -

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

109 of 110 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Little Netbook, October 31, 2009

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J. Smith "deal maker" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung N130-13B 10.1-Inch Slate Blue Netbook - Up to 6.2 Hours of Battery Life (Personal Computers)

Purchased this netbook from Amazon Monday evening and received it on Thursday; fast shipping Amazon. This is a super netbook for $299.99. Color is matte blue and white which shows no fingerprints. Actually like the color better than I thought I would. Build quality is solid as you would expect from Samsung. Screen is matte not glossy which I also like. Very little bloatware to remove. I bought this for my wife who travels and has to give powerpoint presentations. Needless to say she loves this little thing. It will certainly make her travel easier, as this netbook is so small and light(2.8 Lbs). It is a simple netbook; doesn't come with all the bells and whistles, like bluetooth, 1.3 camera, etc. The wifi card found my AT&T Uverse device quickly, so I was on the internet immediately. Battery life is as advertised; it took me about 6 hours to run it down from initial full charge. Wife likes the touchpad, too; I use the usb mouse. If you want a solid, simple netbook with middle of the road battery life, you will like this little gem.
Out of the box, fully charge the battery(light on left front edge of netbook will go from orange to green when fully charged). Next boot up and it will lead you quickly through windows XP installation. Then configure it with programs like you want it. Then enjoy. It is a great product and a steal at this price.

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Value, Great Features., November 16, 2009

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J. Winchester "Tech Enthusiast" (Wildwood, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung N130-13B 10.1-Inch Slate Blue Netbook - Up to 6.2 Hours of Battery Life (Personal Computers)

I had been looking at the "netbook" market for a while and with all the different brands and sizes out there it took me a while. My main factors were price, size (keyboard and screen), and battery life. I feel that a lot of the netbooks out there are just cheap looking, like a little kids toy almost. The N130 is solid, yet light, boasts a 90%ish sized keyboard (works great with my big fingers) and has a 5/5 hours of battery life, real world. It comes with Windows 7 Started Edition which is great but my only complaint with Started is you can't change the desktop background... How dumb is that? Video isn't the greatest on here either, YouTube is OK, but video files are slightly choppy especially at full screen. But hey this is a netbook and is built for browsing the web, and for that it is amazing. I was considering buying a full size notebook and decided on this netbook and I couldn't be happier. It's a perfect fit at a perfect price.

On a side note, I got mine running Mac OSX and man does it fly with OSX installed. Definitely worth it if you're tech savvy enough.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great but not perfect, December 5, 2009

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George Strohsahl (Newbury Park, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung N130-13B 10.1-Inch Slate Blue Netbook - Up to 6.2 Hours of Battery Life (Personal Computers)

Would buy it again and recommend to a friend. Strengths are portablility, easy wireless connection, good keyboard, USB connections, scrolling touchpad, and price. Weaknesses are horrible weak speaker and a battery life of only about 4 hours with screen brightness set to a comfortable level. All netbooks share the limitations of small screen size, limited memory, and lack of optical drive. If those factors are not acceptable, size up to a low end light weight laptop. I can live with them to gain the portabliliy and price benefits. Among netbooks I bought this one due to strong reviews from many sources regarding Samsung quality and performance and, among the Samsung models, the lowest price. I'm happy with it and use earphones.