I didn’t realise for some time that hitting Fn and F8 on the keyboard would bring up the on screen display for this little app. You can easily change between the original Windows 7 Starter and Emerge Desktop interfaces. The other less scary alternative to installing Linux on your N145 is to install Emerge Desktop which changes the front end (or “shell”) of Windows to a more lightweight system. You can find instructions on installing Fedora from USB and also just try it out from a Live USB (it won’t install to the hard drive) however the Live USB will be slower, so don’t judge it on this performance. What you could do is install Fedora linux on some of that massive 250GB hard drive the N145 Plus is packing. Okay, don’t really remove Windows from your netbook. Firefox however seems to cope better with multiple tabs for whatever reason, and might be a better choice for a longer browsing session, or using an intensive site like Google Docs etc. Firefox takes a while longer to load up.Ĭhrome starts to slow down badly though when there are more than a few tabs open, especially if there is Flash content.

I find that Google Chrome starts quickest on the N145 Plus, so I use that if I quickly want to check email or look something up. Use the right web browser at the right time Here are a few tips to help speed up your machine that you might not have thought of. Whilst I am happy with it in general, I do find that sometimes it slows down for no apparent reason. I’ve been using a Samsung N145 Plus netbook for a while now.

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