Comments on: Samsung breaks Netbook mold with Nvidia chip

Nvidia confirms Monday that Samsung will bring out a Netbook based on Nvidia's Ion chipset, another design that breaks the Netbook mold.

[Police_States_of_America]

sony has been releasing, high quality, expensive "netbooks" for a while now, i dont see a difference here.

price maybe? says nothing in the article...

[ednerdtheonly]

Good job, this netbook is from Samsung, not Sony. And even if this netbook were from Sony, the ION chipset is enough to make this netbook a headliner.

Way to be wrong in more than one way.

[Police_States_of_America]

did you read the article? he's talking about powerful netbooks like they are brand new, i was obviously pointing out that powerful "netbooks" were made for years. Nice job pointing out irrelevant factoids ;)

[Davey44]

How is this a netbook? Netbooks are cheap. This will apparently sell for around US$800, more than a full-size and much better-spec Acer. Netbooks are small and lightweight. No info on this, so why assume it's a netbook? So far, all that puts this in the netbook box is minimal memory and a low-end CPU. Not excited yet.

[No Man]

"why assume it's a netbook?"

The model number. Samsung uses the N and NC prefix for netbooks, X and P for notebooks, and Q for UMPC's. With a model number of N510, they will clearly be marketing this computer as a netbook, regardless of whether it actually functions as one.

[Seaspray0]

I agree that the price is not exactly "netbook" range, and as another differentiator, microsoft has already specified that the screen size exceeds what they will allow for a netbook OS.

This looks a lot better than the Gateway 12" netbook. Check out my ion verses AMD version here:

http://scottsoapbox.com/2009/06/27/gateway-sets-itself-up-to-fail/

[Henzapper]

Usually I would hate plugs like this, but it was actually well-written and informative. Though I don't agree with all of what you said (I don't think people are looking for the most powerful netbooks), I have to say, good job!

[codynews]

What's up with these things having 1GB of RAM? Seems you could put another 1GB and still keep under a low cost threshold.

[Jayayess1190]

Microsoft says that a XP Home netbook has to have 1GB of ram. If this had a different OS, like Vista, then 2GB would be allowed.

[hetzbh]

Put it along with Sony Vaio P series: great machine, huge price. According to many sites, this netbook would be sold for around $800!!! way, way out of any netbook price. Want a 9400M based netbook? wait for Lenovo..

[ednerdtheonly]

So true. However, the Lenovo's 12" screen is really pushing it with weight and size...there's a good bit of wasted space with its bezel and room around the keyboard.

[akhileshsabharwal]

While the ION platform seems to be the next thing to define the Netbook / Notebook category - would not the problem be caused by the hobbled Atom processor. If Ion is being projected as being capable of HDTV playback and game play, the processor that would run this would have to be greatly improved.

[Jane in KC]

"I don't think people are looking for the most powerful netbooks."

Well, I am! I always want the most powerful computer I can get - whatever its size. I just think they're pretty much a waste of money otherwise.

[pithenumber]

people who look at netbooks [and know that they want what a netbook is] want more battery life and less wieght

[AppleSuxLeo]

Sammy puts out the top-rated netbooks...but they are hard to find.

[greentechit]

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[xdesire]

What is Samsung? is it a japanese company or Korean company?