Samsung: Five New Notebook Models

Notebookitalia revealed Samsung’s five new laptop models: The ultraportable Samsung Q210 (12.1″) and Q310 (13.3″) as well as the mainstream R510 Aura (15.4″, WXGA) and R560 (15.4″, WSXGA+). The 17″ bang is the Samsung R710 with a WUXGA display (1920 x 1200 pixels).
The subnotebooks Q210 and Q310 come with actual Intel CPUs, Core 2 [...]

Centrino Atom Platform: PC Vendors Pessimistic

Digitimes reports, that although Intel is aggressively pushing Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and its Centrino Atom platform, PC vendors still feel pessimistic about the market’s future in general. Digitimes calls an increasing demand for 7- to 10-inch netbooks, a declining worldwide economy and Nvidia’s ARM11-based Tegra as negative factors toward MIDs. Intel declined the opportunity [...]

Compal: New Centrino 2 ‘Montevina’ Barebone Notebooks

Compal is one of the major ODM/OEM companies, whose notebook and laptop barebones are found amongst all big brands worldwide. So Compal’s announcement of notebooks and laptops with Intel Centrino 2 ‘Montevina’ mobile platform gets for sure a lot of attention. No surprise: Two models are aimed towards the 15.4“ segment – JHL90 and JHL91, [...]

NVIDIA GeForce 9M Series: Notebook PC GPU at Computex 2008

On June 3, 2008 NVIDIA announced its GeForce 9M series graphics processors (GPU) that incorporate the company’s new Hybrid SLI technology. NVIDIA claims that the GeForce 9M GPUs are the fastest notebook PC GPUs on the planet allowing you to blaze through games, work on 3D applications and enjoy HD movies. The GeForce 9M GPUs [...]