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Samsung to release an OLED notebook in Q4 2010

Website Administrator — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:39:51 +0000

Samsung will most probably release a notebook with an OLED screen by not later than Q4 2010. OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode and in the coming years this technology will be mostly used in the production of digital displays.

If you want to know the advantages and disadvantages of OLED over the current LCD (Liquid Crystal Displays) then click here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_light-emitting_diode#Advantages

Also, for OLED related news click here: http://www.oled-info.com

Latest Netbook innovations

Editor in Chief — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:57:58 +0000

It looks like a number of manufacturers are planning to release more powerful netbooks and this is something which is desperately needed because most of the netbooks that were released in the last year offered very similar specs (like the same CPU, same amount of memory and same Intel-based graphic chipset).

However, a number of manufacturers have recently announced the following:

- Docking stations for netbooks (when used these will add extra ports including DVI/HDMI connections)
- More powerful CPUs (based on Dual Core Atom processors)
- HDMI Graphic chipsets powered by Nvidia
- Hard drives up to 320 GB

To check out netbooks which some (or all) of the above click here:

Gigabyte M1022 series:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/notebook/Products_List.aspx?NoteBookType=Booktop&ScreenSize=10.1%22

Prime Note Cresion NA:
http://www.dospara.co.jp/5goods_pc/pc_detail.php?h=d&f=d&m=pc&mc=1070&map=8
(Note: Website is in Japanese)

Lenovo and Samsung have also announced netbooks with similar specs but at the time of writing their websites are not listing these models.

Windows 7 on Netbooks

Editor in Chief — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:39:48 +0000

Almost all netbooks which have been sold till now come with either Linux or Windows XP pre-installed, with only a few models available with Windows Vista. The problem with the latter O/S is the fact that it is too much power hungry and the combination of cpu, graphics chipset and memory available on most netbooks cannot handle Vista. However it is now very obvious that things will soon change and this will not happen because of some new CPU or more RAM. As a matter of fact it seems that the Intel Atom N270 which runs at 1.6 GHz will continue to power the vast majortity of netbooks for quite some time. What is going to change all is the O/S itself! In fact it seems that all current netbooks will be able to handle all versions of Windows 7 very easily. In order to try this out, this week I have installed Windows 7 Professional on a Samsung NC-10 with 1GB of RAM (this netbooks ships with XP), and I can confirm that Windows 7 is running on it at almost the same speed of Windows XP! I am also confident that if I had to add more RAM, Windows 7 would be much faster. This is certainly good news for the vast majority of current netbook users, but I guess that it is also bad news for netbook manufacturers, at least for those that were hoping to sell faster models to existing netbook owners!

For more information on Windows 7 click here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/tour.aspx

For more information on the Samsung NC10 click here:
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/office/mobile-computing/netbooks/NP-NC10-KA01US/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=spec