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 […]
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Is the Samsung N510 inching closer to a US launch?
A little over a month ago, my contact at Samsung told me that the Samsung N510 laptop with NVIDIA ION graphics and an 11.6 inch display would be available int he US in September. Now that we’re halfway through the month, things were starting to look a bit shaky… until Netbook Choice noticed that Samsung […]
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Hands on with the Samsung N130 and N140 – Video
Samsung is showing off its new N130 and N140 laptops at IFA in Berlin this week and Sascha from Netbook News got to spend some hands-on time with these two new models. For the most part, the specs look pretty familiar. The laptops have 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drives, 10 inch, 1024 x 600 […]
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Samsung launches N130 and N140 netbooks
Samsung is introducing two new 10.1 inch netbooks in Russia. From the photos, it looks like the Samsung N130 and N140 are a cross between the Samsung Go and N110. I can’t tell for sure from the pictures, and my Russian is rusty nonexistent, but it looks like base of the netbook has a rubberized […]
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NVIDIA ION-powered Samsung N510 coming to America next month
I just got word from Samsung that the company plans to start shipping the Samsung N510 laptop in the US in September. The laptop packs an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, HDMI output, and it uses the NVIDIA ION platform, which bundles a low power Intel Atom processor with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M […]
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Samsung may be working on an NVIDIA ION powered netbook
French news sites Blogeee and Les Numeriques are both reporting that Samsung will soon introduce a netbook with NVIDIA’s ION chipset. The NVIDIA ION platform bundles a lower power Intel Atom CPU with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M grahics processor to offer better video and graphics performance than you would get from the integrated Intel GMA […]
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Samsung stops production of 1.8 inch hard drives, good news or bad for netbooks?
Samsung has reportedly halted development of 1.8 inch hard drives. And while Digitimes reports that this could “hamper” the shipments of netbooks and ultrathing notebooks int he short term, it could be a good thing in the long run. Because let’s face it, 1.8 inch hard drives are kind of crappy. Sure, they smaller than […]
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Samsung launches designer edition netbooks
Over the past few days, the folks at SammyNetbook have spotted two different designer edition netbooks from Samsung. A few days ago, Samsung launched the Agnes B. Edition NC10 netbook in France. This model is basically just a standard NC10 with a stylish lid signed by the designer, and featuring a lizard. Now it looks […]
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Samsung launches netbook SSD line
Samsung has launched a line of solid state disks for use in netbooks. According to PC World, they consume about 0.3 watts of power, which is less than a third of the power draw in Samsung’s 2.5 inch SSDs. Of course, the new SSDs are also slower and offer less storage capacity than those high […]
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Samsung, LG increasing netbook production
Samsung and LG may not be the first two names that spring to mind when you think about netbooks, or more generally, laptop computers. But the two Korean companies have produced some excellent mini-laptops, including the popular Samsung NC10, and the LG X110 which is manufacturer by MSI. Now DigiTimes is reporting that the two […]