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Samsung to launch Pineview netbooks in January

File this in the category of “I’d be more surprised if it wasn’t happening,” but Samsung will introduce a line of netbooks with an Intel Atom Pineview processor in late January. A Samsung representative confirmed the company’s plans to retool its netbook lineup with the next-generation Atom chips today at the Netbook World Summit in […]

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Samsung N510-4B with NVidia Ion now on sale at $599

Yet another Ion-powered netbook is now on sale – this time it’s Samsung’s N510-4B and Newegg.com has it listed at $599.99. It’s a solid performer, but what are you getting for just South of $600? Intel Atom N280 at 1.66GHz 2GB DDR2 memory 250GB SATA-II hard drive 802.11 b/g/n wireless Bluetooth 2.1 1.3 megapixel webcam […]

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Samsung notebooks to feature HyperSpace quick boot environment

Samsung is the latest PC maker to jump on the quick start bandwagon. The company has partnered with Phoenix to load HyperSpace on all of Samsung’s upcoming mobile PCs including netbooks. HyperSpace is basically a low profile Linux distribution that hangs out on a small hard drive partition, allowing you to choose between HyperSpace or […]

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Samsung to become number 2 netbook seller in Europe?

Acer, HP, Asus, Lenovo, and Dell are all known primarily as PC makers. Samsung? Not so much. The company makes consumer electronics ranging from televisions and Blu-ray players to smartphones. But Samsung also makes some of the most popular mini-laptops around, and according to DigiTimes, Samsung is poised to become the number 2 netbook vendor […]