Looks like Samsung’s getting into the 11.6-inch netbook game with the upcoming N510. An 11.6-inch screen means a 1366×768 resolution, which in turn means that the machine ought to be able to play HD content, which in turn (in turn) means it’s going to need some extra oomph. And it’ll get just that by using the NVIDIA Ion platform.
Preliminary specs include an Intel Atom N280 CPU, NVIDIA 9400M Ion chipset, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, 11.6-inch screen at 1366×768, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/Ethernet, webcam, card reader, six-cell battery, and Windows XP.
The N510 is apparently still a ways out, not shipping until October. Pricing is rumored to fall around 570 Euro, which is about $800. That’s not to say that it’ll cost $800 here — it may be far less. If I had to guess, I’d think it’d be priced closer to $600 or so at most.
[Blogeee.net via SlashGear]
Progress, but once you go past the 10″ mark, it’s not a netbook anymore. I have a 13.3″ Dell XPS m1330… That’s a notebook. If I drop one inch off of it, so it’s 12″ … still a notebook. If I essentially chop it in half, that’s a netbook.
Give me this in a 9″, or even better yet, a 7″ form factor, and with an atom 330, and I’ll be first in line to buy two!
It’s a netbook. The screen size isn’t the only thing that determines what makes a personal computer a netbook. Which is why you have both 11″ netbooks and laptops. However, as technology progresses, netbooks in the over 10″ market will disappear into laptops. But for now, its technically a netbook.
Laptop = 15″-18″
Ultra-Portable = 11″-14″
Netbook = 7″-12″ (Future = 7″-10″)
Ultra-Mobile = up to 7″
$600 you’ve gotta be kidding – right? This won’t play HD with an N280 and 1GB, not unless you like watching HD in slow motion with unsynchronized audio!
Won’t run Win7’s XP compatibility mode either. No HW virtualization support. You can buy a real laptop for $600. Go look at EMachines, Gateway and HP have some nice low-enders coming out for back to school too.
Steeeeer Cleeear of this at $600. I’d consider it for $300-$350. Even at that it’s a stretch.
N280 with Nvidia9400 will fly through HD 1080p.
Epic fail. Should have released this earlier when they promised. Probably get an S12 just because of their lies about the release date.