Monday, December 22nd 2008
Samsung Readies 12.1-inch NC20 Netbook for CES Next Year
Samsung was a bit late to the netbook party with its first NC10 netbook, but now the company is going to catch up on others with NC20. Samsung NC20 will supposedly be the NC10 successor, and while the attention this week is on NVIDIA and Intel, the NC20 will be powered by a VIA platform. The reported specifications claim a 12.1-inch display, a 1.3GHz VIA Nano U2250 processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM and a 160GB hard drive, all packed in a system that weighs 1.5 kilograms and costs US $642 (Euro 450). The netbook will feature built-in Bluetooth 2.0, Wireless 802.11b/g, single Ethernet, a 3-in-1 memory card reader and a 1.3MP camera. Other details remain sketchy for now, it's also unclear what platform this VIA CPU will plug into. Samsung will presumably debut the NC20 at CES next year.
Source:
Notebook Italia
6 Comments on Samsung Readies 12.1-inch NC20 Netbook for CES Next Year
Let's hope Samsung has stuck with the excellent readability of the MATTE screen on the NC10 and hasnt ventured into glossy screens like their other larger laptop offerings!
My Perfect Netbook would be:
12.1" Screen
large keyboard
Dual core atom 330
2gb ram
6 cell battery
32gb ssd
card reader
wifi
bluetooth
Vista (vLited ofcourse ;) )
I know this is getting a little close to full blown laptop but its not quite there and would be a lot deal lighter. Don't need an optical drive and I guess the camera could be optional. All this for $500 and it would be a steal.
I love how dell mini is so light and the battery lasts almost 4 hours.
There's nothing wrong with beefing up the specs on netbooks, just once they get above $500 and 10 inches, I would find it difficult to call them netbooks still.
I'm curious as to what graphics chip this laptop uses, whether it's the awful Unichrome integrated series, or this is one of the first examples of 'trinity' and they use a Chrome gpu.