Samsung Chromebook 3 (laptop review)

★☆☆☆☆ I bought this laptop in the late 2010s, mainly for travel, or to have as a spare I could use when someone else was using the good laptop. It was terrible. A lot of computers start out great, or at least good, and then decay over time as hardware breaks down, connectors and batteries wear out, and software requirements balloon to exceed what they can handle. This was not one of those devices. Some devices aren’t that great, but there’s some redeeming feature about them and you love them anyway, until entropy comes knocking and you reluctantly put them out to pasture. This was not one of those devices either. Substandard Hardware The display was the kind of LCD where you can see the grid between pixels. The backlight was too bright, and inconsistent across the surface of the screen. The keyboard was uncomfortable and unreliable, the trackpad was clunky (and also unreliable), and the chassis always felt like it was about to fall apart. And it was slow, even by the standards of its…