So as part of my company’s benefits scheme, they provide us with a gadget allowance so we can keep at the forefront of technology. So wondering what I could spend my final tranche of $$$ I was thinking hard on what I could purchase. Then I saw one of these bad boys on the London Underground. Bought a sleek looking black one from Amazon and it arrived today. Work has gone out the window as I’ve been setting this up all day long <snigger> don’t tell the boss though, I’ve labelled it as technology research!
So first impressions, are good. It comes in a small form factor which is small enough for ladies to put them in their handbags and us rufty tufty men to put them in out manbags. The look is stylish although it does have some of the largest branding I’ve ever seen on a netbook or laptop; “SAMSUNG” embossed across the cover in 20mm high lettering. Opening up the little beauty I find a full keyboard although again rather small to cope with the small form factor and a 1060 x 600 screen. Large enough to view a decent real estate when browsing the web, but I would recommend hitting the F11 key in IE8 when browsing to maximise the screen.
Pre-installed software includes Windows XP – what no Vista? McAffee security and a Samsung utility for ensuring that you have a complete restore point (doesn’t windows do that anyway?) I’ve just downloaded all my favourites from the web including Tweetdeck, Live Mesh, and Live Writer. Next will be Office 2007 when I get home and pop the install media onto a USB memory device.
So far so good. I’ll blog in a few more days once I’ve used it in a more real world situation and let you know how I’m getting on with it.
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