Intel Atom Shortage Over?

DigiTimes has an article up mentioning a few things we already know – mainly that Toshiba will be entering the netbook market later this year with the 10.2″ Toshiba Satellite NB105 and that Samsung will also be entering the market (in October) with a 10.2″ … Read more

Photos, Some Details of Samsung Netbook

A few more photos and details of the 10.2″ Samsung Netbook (that’s the only name we have for it at this point) have emerged. We already know it’ll be powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU and have a standard 2.5″ HDD (80GB – 160GB). … Read more

Samsung and Microsoft: Let’s Speed up Vista on SSDs

Just last month, Samsung announced the mass production of cheaper and larger Solid State Drives (SSD)s. There’s been some criticism over the performance (or lack thereof) when it comes to SSDs and Microsoft Windows Vista. Now it appears that Samsung and Microsoft are going to … Read more

Samsung: Mass Production of 64GB, 128GB MLC SSD

Today, Samsung announced that they had started mass production of 1.8″ and 2.5″ Multi-Level Cell (MLC) Solid State Drives (SSD) in 64GB and 128GB capacities. They should be quite a bit cheaper than previous Samsung SSD offerings (and as mentioned back in May, Samsung plans … Read more

SSD Versus Hard Drive

Over at the Lenovo “Inside the Box” blog, Matt Kohut reported on swapping his existing 7200rpm 2.5-inch hard drive for a 1.8-inch 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD) in his ThinkPad. It did involve using an adapter from a 1.8-inch form factor to a 2.5-inch form … Read more