Notebooks.com Samsung Notebooks Archive

Samsung Launches First Notebook and UMPC with NAND Flash-based Solid State Disk

Samsung will release the world’s first PCs embedded with a 32 GB NAND flash-based solid state disk.This marks the first time that NAND flash has moved into a commercial mobile computing application and is a breakthrough that will pave the way for replacing hard disk drives with NAND flash-based memory disks.
The Samsung Q1, an ultra-mobile [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on May 19, 2006  | 

Laptop HDD Going the Way of the Floppy

George Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), says flash memory chips will replace notebooks’ hard disk drives within five years. Samsung has already demonstrated a notebook that uses a 32 GB flash drive. That company predicts 30% of all notebooks will run on flash memory by 2008.

According to Scalise, once the price of [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on April 18, 2006  | 

UltraConfusing PC’s

Samsung Electronics, Intel and Microsoft Korea execs couldn’t get a simple presentation to work on a Samsung Q1 UMPC to work during a press conference.

Continue Reading  |  Posted on April 16, 2006  | 

World’s Smallest Dual Core

Samsung announced the world’s “smallest dual core notebook.” The specs look great on this, including a 6-cell battery that allows for a 7-hour runtime. This won’t be available in the states, but Asia will snap these up.

Continue Reading  |  Posted on March 22, 2006  | 

Notebook sans Hard Drive

PC World Reports on a Samsung prototype notebook that uses 32GB of flash memory in place of a hard drive. Faster boot times, no moving parts, but a $960 price tag.

Samsung Electronics has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk, a flash-memory-based replacement for hard disks, and is showing it here at the CeBIT [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on March 11, 2006  |