| Manufacturer: Samsung | Model: Go N310 |
| Price: $479.99 | Web: http://www.samsung.com |
It was a dark and stormy night in the year 2000. Whoops! Right year, wrong plot. Backing up slightly, it really was the year 2000. My oldest had just graduated from high school. My wife and I had decided that when each kid graduated from high school, we would buy them a computer and printer. A combination that would be quite necessary as they went on to college.
My oldest wanted a laptop. She was going to take it to class and take notes. I gave her one of those Dad looks and said, “Yea, right.” I’ve always been a desktop kind of guy and there was no way she was going to get one of them laptop-thingies.
Long story, short: she got the laptop, a Dell Pentium III. Started out with Windows 98, and soon “upgraded” to Windows ME. A few keyboard and motherboard replacements later, I got her Windows XP and life was good again.
What is the absolute worst OS that Microsoft released to the wild? Windows ME. Beats out it’s closest rival, Vista, by a factor of 10:1. Minimum.
Actually, the overall experience had reinforced my original opinion about laptops. 8 years later, #3 kid graduated and he was not going to settle for anything less than a laptop. A real nice HP Core 2 Duo. Within a month, the hard disk died and we had to get it replaced. He has not had a problem since, but my opinion on laptops had been reinforced once again.
It is now 1 year later, and I am preparing to go to CES next January. Hopefully, I will get some good looks at some of the cool things to come on the market next year and write a few articles for the WGS blog.
It won’t be on a desktop computer that I will write these articles.
It won’t be on a laptop computer that I will write these articles.
I went ALL the way over to the dark side and purchased a NETBOOK to write these articles.
So, with any new piece of computer hardware I get, whether from a manufacturer or by personal purchase, I simply have to do a Hands On for the WGS readership. I know, your first question is going to be: “What has a netbook got to do with Windows Home Server?”
Well, for starters, there would be no need for a WHS if there was nothing for it to backup. Desktops, laptops, netbooks, and Macs, oh my! And WGS is a “Windows Home Server & your Digital Home” website…
The Samsung Go N310 netbook is the item on display today. It is one of those current basic netbooks on the market today. 10” screen, N270 Atom processor, 160GB HD, etc. There are a hundred other of the same from every manufacturer out there.
Why the N310? Partly because Terry is a fan of Samsung netbooks. Not the N310, specifically, but Samsung netbooks in general.
Did I read any netbook reviews before I purchased the N310? Of course! Can’t a dude who reviews computer stuff read other reviews?
And did I make the right choice? That all depends, do you think I would ever admit it if I made the “wrong” choice??? hmm, enough of that nonsense, let’s see what we have on the plate today.
