Samsung Related News
PC World is reporting about Samsung showing off a 32GB flash-based harddrive at CeBIT this week. It’s double the size that Samsung showed off last year. The 32GB flash-based drive fits in the same space as a normal 1.8-inch notebook hardrive.
CNET also has a Top 10 List of Notebooks for February 2006 although their list focuses on all notebooks.
Zigzag Designs has put together an interesting collection of laptop patents/inventions that have been filed over the past several years, including some from HP, IBM, and Samsung. Some of the ones with projection displays interested me – if you could work out a small enough projector with a decent resolution and refresh rate, it’s possible you could save weight, size, battery life, or all three (then again, nobody has done it so maybe it’s not possible).
TG Daily mentions that Intel’s “Ultra Mobile PC” is on track for a first quarter release.
This is going to be interesting – WWAN, GPS capabilities, standby times of up to a week, all in a device not much bigger than a paperback book – this is somewhere between a PDA and a very small notebook (the OQO as mentioned, and the Toshiba U100 series are good examples of this size) and may have a physical keyboard.
vnunet.com is carrying a story detailing plans Samsung has to start 16GB Nand Flash chip production later this year. This could definitely have an impact on ultraportables, probably starting in 2007 or thereabouts, although from the sound of things, it’s easily adapted, so it might even allow for retrofitting into existing laptops. Imagine being able to replace your current harddrive with Flash memory and increase your battery life substantially as well as adding some durability.