Yesterday Lenovo announced it would postpone the launch of the NVIDIA ION powered version of the IdeaPad S12 laptop until after Windows 7 was available. Now I’ve confirmed that Samsung, the other major company with an NVIDIA ION laptop in the works, is making the same call.
The company decided that the Samsung N510 performs better with Windows 7 than with Windows Vista Home Premium, and would rather ship the laptop with the new operating system after it’s released on October 22nd.
A spokesperson also confirmed that right now the Samsung N510 is slated to ship with NVIDIA ION LE graphics, which is the version of NVIDIA’s platform that supports DirectX 9 graphics, but which doesn’t support DX10. But it sounds like that could still change.
Man I’m soooooooooooooooo tired of waiting… might have to go with the 310, but I really wanted the new platform… sigh…..
The N510 is already shipping in Europe. You can find pictures from one of the first customers in Germany at Netbooknews (incl. size comparison with the NC10): https://www.netbooknews.de/8638/samsung-n510-unboxing-vergleich-mit-nc10/
The N510 is already being delivered in Germany. You can see pics from one of the first customers here: https://www.netbooknews.de/8638/samsung-n510-unboxing-vergleich-mit-nc10/
Done and done.
Screw Lenovo. Screw Samsung. I waited months and months and was going to buy the first one out of the gate … but both have continually disappointed.
Here comes the ASUS N10J (unless a decent CULV ion hits market in the next 2 weeks).
I hope