All about laptops and netbook!
Archive for December 4, 2008
Meet the Samsung NC11
Dec 4th
It appears that Samsung are to release a successor to the NC10. The Samsung NC11 however doesn’t appear to have any of it’s specifications different, apart from a reduced hard drive space and operating system. The NC10 comes with a 160GB hard drive where as the NC11 is said to come with a smaller 120GB hard drive. The NC11 will however be available on Windows Vista and Windows XP, unlike the NC10, only available with Windows XP.
The user manual, firmware and drivers that are available for the NC11 are identical to that of the NC10.
Via Liliputing and Sammy Netbook forums
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Buffalo to Produce SSD’s for Dell Mini 9
Dec 4th
Buffalo Technology are the latest manufacturer to jump into the booming netbook components market by producing a 16GB and a 32GB SSD for the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook to accompany their recently announced 32GB and 64GB Eee PC SSD’s.
The official product page for the “after-market” drives, states that the 16GB SSD will be priced at 4,800 Yen (around $52 US, although on the announcement page the price is stated as 5,300 Yen which is around $57 US) and that the 32GB solid state drive will cost 9,400 Yen, approximately $101 US). That’s around the same price that Dell charge for the 32GB SSD upgrade when you purchase a Mini 9 from them now, so Buffalo are presumably aiming their product at current owners of the Dell netbook that wish to boost their Mini 9’s storage capacity.
Both drives are available from early this month, in Japan. There is no news on whether Buffalo will roll the SSD’s out to the rest of the world as yet.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Buffalo to Produce SSD’s for Dell Mini 9
MSI to Launch the U110 and U115 at CES 2009
Dec 4th
MSI has announced that it will be showcasing its newest Wind notebook (not netbook), the U110 and U115 at CES 2009. What makes these two notebooks special is the fact that they will feature Intel’s Menlow platform which is commonly used on Mobile Internet Devices (MID).
Aside from bearing the same Wind branding, the U110 and U115 will also feature a 10.2-inch screen, Atom Z530 processor and SCH US15W chipset. The fact that their CPUs will still be Atom makes these two notebooks worthy of the MSI Wind branding.
Setting it apart from the MSI Wind netbook is the fact that these two notebooks will offer lower power consumption and longer battery life. In additino, these two notebooks will also be priced higher than the MSI netbooks due to the expensive cost of the Menlow platform.
The MSI U115 will sell for around $685.28 to $744.89 while the U110 will have a price tag of $565-$595. So, it looks like MSI might have a hard time selling these products as it offers not too many differences with their MSI netbooks.
Other features of the MSI Wind U115 includes, a 10.2-inch LED-backlit LCD panel, 1-2GB RAM and Hybrid Storage which could either be an 8GB, 16GB or 35GB SSDs and 80GB, 120GB or 160GB HD. The MSI Wind U110 will have the same specs except for the hybrid storage since it will only have either a 120GB, 160GB or 250GB HD.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
