Microsoft Windows Xp Home Edition For Ultra Low Cost Pcs

Microsoft Windows Xp Home Edition For Ultra Low Cost Pcs Upgrade Your Samsung

The HP Stream 11 is one of the cheapest and most colourful netbooks at 179.99 with 2GB of memory and 32GB of Flash memory for a hard drive.

Upgrade it or buy a tablet that can run Microsoft Office Jack Schofield reckons a 2-in-1 or convertible laptop can do both jobs.

Lenovo Flex 10 Photograph: PR Lenovo Flex 10 Photograph: PR Jack Schofield Thu 12 Mar 2015 10.23 GMT Last modified on Tue 21 Feb 2017 18.09 GMT I have a Samsung N130 netbook running Windows XP.

Recently, it started locking up while editing Word documents (Office 2003), though Ive narrowed this down to a dodgy Word document that I had previously edited on my Google Nexus tablet.

Android tablets are great for emails and internet access (games, social media etc) but not for any serious work applications.

I am beginning to think that a Windows tablet might have been a better purchase, as I am past the age where I want to spend time on social media, and I make a lot more use of Word, Excel and Access than anything else.

Peter Netbooks were a boon when they appeared in 2007-08, because the best ones such as your Samsung N130 provided users with cheap, very portable mini-laptops with decent battery life.

You can now get more capable netbooks such as the HP Stream models, and more versatile 2-in-1 laptops such as the Asus Transformer T100 and the Acer Switch range, for around the same price or less.

The best way to refresh an old, slow Windows PC is to back up all your data and applications and reinstall the operating system.

Often you can do this by using the restore to factory condition option on Windows PCs that have a hidden recovery partition; this now seems to be standard on all new Windows laptops.

Unfortunately, both Windows XP and Word 2003 are more than a decade old and Microsoft has stopped supporting them.

Microsoft Windows Xp Home Edition For Ultra Low Cost Pcs Upgrade Your Samsung

In theory, you could upgrade your Samsung N130 by installing Windows 7 or 7 Pro (which is still a current Microsoft product) and Microsoft Office 2010 or 2013.

This might be worthwhile if you had a high-end laptop with lots of memory, but frankly, the N130 isnt worth the cost.

The major limitations are the Samsungs 1024 x 600-pixel screen resolution and meagre 1GB of memory.

For the price of Windows 7 Pro and Office, you could almost buy a whole new PC.

You could replace Windows XP and Office with a version of Linux and the Office Libre suite.

This could be a good solution for home users, and might be viable for people who only work online.

However, I dont recommend this route to business users of Microsoft Office, because neither Office Libre nor Google Docs is sufficiently Office-compatible to rely on, and theyre not worth the cost of the time they will inevitably waste.

If your business really cant afford Office 365 Business roughly 25p a day then perhaps you should be in a different business.

The good news is that Office 365 Business allows you to use Microsoft Office on five PCs or Macs, five tablets (Windows, iPad, and Android), and five smartphones, so you could also use the Office apps.

Netbook replacements Netbooks were cheap because they had very limited specifications, imposed by Intel and Microsoft, and because Microsoft offered manufacturers cheap copies (11 to 15) of an ultra-low-cost personal computer (ULCPC) version of Windows XP.

Todays netbook-equivalents have much better specifications at the same sorts of prices usually between 200 and 250, but sometimes climbing towards 300 The main advantages come from the extra power of newer Intel Atom-based chips and from Windows 8.1, which provides fast booting and almost instant start-up from sleep.

Processors such as the Pentium N3520, Celeron N2940 and Atom Z3775 are roughly as fast as a second-generation Core-i3, which is far superior to the Atom N270 in your Samsung 310 and similar netbooks.

Also, instead of 1GB of memory, they have at least 2GB and sometimes 4GB, plus a standard screen resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.