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dave clarke
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Had a Samsung netbook which comes up with failing hard drive message each time it started so bought a Samsung galaxy pad but can't get on with it
Netbooks seem unavailable now unless I buy a refurbished one can anyone recommend a decent new one
TIA
Netbooks seem unavailable now unless I buy a refurbished one can anyone recommend a decent new one
TIA
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Broadly speaking though, to give you some idea of the sort of laptops you should be looking at, there's the Asus S200E Intel i3 with an 11.6 inch touchscreen, the Apple MacBook Air 11-inch, and the 13 inch Acer Aspire S3-391 Intel i5, but no touchscreen.
Another 13 inch is the Samsung Series 5 NP530U3C Intel i3 and there's the hybrid tablet/laptop HP Envy x2 Intel Atom Z2760 11.5 inch touchscreen with a detachable keyboard, only 2GB RAM but still good performance for general use.
I think the ones I've listed are the best of the bunch. Have a look at the various specs and differences and make your choice. If money is no object then any of the Macs would do an excellent job or the 14 inch HP Envy 14-3000 Spectre Intel i5 is a top of the range performer with outstanding Beats Audio branded sound.
If you were happy with the netbook, why not just replace the harddrive with a nice SSD - that's relatively simple to do with most Sammy's and lots of guides to doing it online. It also makes a netbook considerably more responsive / less of a pain to use and will work out much cheaper than a new one
With a touchscreen I don't seem to get a response always and if my hands are dirty looking up a manual isn't easy keys on netbook always seem fine probably just me but I don't like tablet at all
This.
An SSD was by far and away the biggest performance boost my old netbook got. Extra RAM also helped, but not as much as an SSD.
Check out how easy the drive replacement will be first though. Video guides for the vast majority on YouTube. Some are a doddle, some are not. But even the tricky ones can be done. But if you're not happy tinkering about inside a computer, you may want to see about getting someone to do it for you.
Oh, and it would be worth finding out what SATA speed the board in the netbook supports if you go down this route. You can pick up older SSD's that only support SATA 2 pretty cheap. No point putting a SATA 3 one in there if the ports are previous generation ...
Thanks for the input
Then put a linux based distro called LXLE (based on Lubuntu) on it and you will have a very good performing machine which operates much quicker than the windows 7 versions. http://lxle.net/
Does it make sense to run Linux or Chromium to speed things up?
Go for a linux install, at least from a security perspective and keeping up with modern browsers even if no security boost.
Thanks.
What's the easiest way of doing that?
Just download and install on bootup as with XP / Vista?
Which version?
Can I make my netbook a Chromium? Is the OS the same as Linux OS?
I use google products for almost everything.
EDIT
answer seems to be here
http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/how-to-install-chrome-os-on-a-netbook/
But how about drivers? Are these OS dependent?