I’ve been using my Samsung Netbook for about a week now. I’m actually pleasantly surprised how useful it’s been. I expected it to be slow and cumbersome and that I would have to endure some annoyances that comes with compromising power and speed for portability and price. Overall it has been a good experience except a few for when it lags a little bit; mainly when I’m typing and when I’m watching videos. So to remedy the lag and choppiness I increased the performance of the Netbook which seemed to do the trick.
I changed the power settings for the processor and video performance as well as activated the “speed mode”. This seemed to do the trick. I know that I am trading battery life for better performance which I’m OK with. If I’m traveling and need maximum battery life, I’ll just change my netbook to use the “battery savings” mode.
To change the power settings:
- Right click on the battery icon, click on Power Options
- Beside the Samsung Optimised plan click on the “Change plan settings” link.
- Click on the “Change advanced power settings” link.
- Expand “Processor power management” -> “Maximum processor state” and change it to 100% on battery.
- Expand “Multimedia Settings” -> “Video Playback” and change the settings to “Optimized for Video Playback”
To turn on the “Speed Mode”:
- Make the program that you want to use speed mode on active (in my case it was Firefox.
- Press “fn” + “F8″
