Samsung N310 renamed Go, befriends bacteria
By Vladislav Savov 
posted Jul 16th 2009 6:35AM
posted Jul 16th 2009 6:35AM
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I still don't understand the purpose of a netbook?
It's having a sub-notebook for a reasonable price. You should try it sometime.
Markarian - $449 isn't even CLOSE to a reasonable price for this hardware. An MSI Wind offers almost identical hardware for a shade under $300.
Go to Slashdot.org and look for "askSlashdot" thread about taking a computer for a round the world trip or for long vacations. It was more than 2 years ago and back then the suggestion was: don't take any computer with you, they are too fragile and expensive to risk damage.
My Mini 9 ROCKED on our latest vacation. (We tend to just...rove)
Between IT and the GPS I managed to enjoy some scenery while I was driving for a change!
nice icon, Markarian.
@ strider_mt2k
Agreed. Just took mine with on a week-long trip to Yosemite NP to save photos and vid to the SD card. The wifi in the lodge was great for a daily net fix. It also gave me a chance to put finishing touches on a business plan I have been working on, which was a lot nicer sitting around in the woods than somewhere in my house.
Samsung: proving that Americans like short names. There are at least a thousand products on the American market called 'GO'. Why, Samsung, Why?
At least it's not iGO
Point taken. And besides, Toyota would sue if anyone used the name iGO.
BTW Derek, we both seem to have far too much time on our hands today :P
Probably because actual brand names stick in the consciousness of the average consumer much better than the model names. Ask a random person in the street to say their laptop's name and most times they'll probably just give you the company name rather than the actual model number.
Calling this laptop the Samsung Go is a smart move considering it's touted as a fashion-oriented device; model numbers aren't teh secksay, so it makes sense to play into the vain, dumb nature of the target audience by following that old KISS principle.
How is different from their previous offering ????
Hmmmm.... well atleast the color seems nice. No mention of battery options though.
Didn't you read the article, man? It kinda is their previous offering, just renamed and made slightly worse.
Hmmm... i dont think the article states this is as their previous model , does it ?
We wash our hands more often in Europe.
Wouldn't it be the opposite? Europe gets the antibacterial coating not USA.
I've got a 2 year old Samsung Q70 at home. It has the same Silver Nano thing. You really don't notice a difference, but it's nice to have it.
I almost died and crapped my pants that was so funny and smug of you! BRAVO!!!!
With the matte outside, flush screen, chicklet keyboard and nice, almost rugged looking, design would make it's exactly what i am looking for - if only
it had a higher resolution (i'd love to see somebody offer a 900px tall option),
more ram
and ideally.. a screen just going a tad more towards it's edges..
My grammar got messed up beyond belief.. sorry.
We don't get antibacterial coating because it's based on silver nanoparticles. Nanomaterials are considered potentially harmful by some scientists and thus are banned in Europe (or in some countries like France for instance)
Ha! I wondered if that was it.
Antibacterial coating on a laptop is pretty bizarre anyway. I'm the only one that touches my laptop; any germs that may be on it almost certainly came from my hands.
Bring on the germs bitch
I almost died and crapped my pants that was so funny and smug of you! BRAVO!!!!
Still waiting for ION, LED (at least 12-Inches), SSD, Win 7 (atleast upgrade option), and something faster than 1.6 atom.
Damn people, stop the bacteria phobia. You not gonna die from touching things.
looks kinda like a re-colored hp mini
Looks like it belongs to Toys-R-Us.
I can see it now:
Introducing the Samsung GO (to the hospital)!
boring.... Why do these netbook makers keep expecting us to get excited over a paint job. Same crappy cpu, same crappy screen resolution, same crappy graphics, same crappy hard drive. It wouldn't be hard to get me that interested either. Bump the screen vertical resolution to 768, throw in some NVidia graphics. Offer a cpu upgrade that's just a few megahertz more. Just because a netbook is "low end" doesn't mean you have to keep scraping the bottom of the hardware barrel until your fingers bleed you brainless laptop makers you.
Do you engadget editors just copy and paste those specs from other stories, or do you actually type them for each netbook story? :) I would just copy and paste it
Wow such an original name. How do they think of these things?
@SJay who said "looks like it belongs to Toys R Us"
You are spot on. Im in the UK and saw one of these at the weekend in Selfridges (large department store) and they just look like a childs laptop and were about £300 so about $480.
When closed they honestly look fairly hideous - but each to their own - all i would say is that if you are interested in one of these you ought to consider seeing one before you buy
The earlier 4 cell has been discarded alongwith Samsung's 'silver nano' (anti bacterial coating) on the keyboard in order to accomodate a 6 cell battery that gives a 10 hour + usage, so am thinking a 7 n half hour at least can be expected. This trade off was required to keep the price tag similar to the 4cell version. Looks like Samsung doesn't wanna breach the $500 mark even with delivery charges. It looks smooth but seems to be the fasionable performance-competitor for N110 with the new spruced up battery. Good work overall !!