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Samsung’s UMPC Ruined by Thriftier Netbooks/Tablets

March 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Via RegHardware:
Not quite a netbook tablet, Samsung’s UMPC is going to be a miss with the innovation hungry consumer crowd for one reason, price.
The sleekly designed UMPC tablet features everything you’d find in a tablet and everything you wouldn’t (keyboard of any kind).  It’s got some respectable specs, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 60GB HDD storage, a [...]

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Samsung Abandons Intel for Via Technologies

March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Via cNet Asia:
Samsung, popular general electronics manufacturer, has announced that it’s newest netbook, the 12.1′ NC20 will be using a Via Technologies chip instead of the Intel Atom chip set the NC10 utilized.
Intel’s troubles seem to be mounting.  Just when they were assured that one competitor is out of the game for the foreseeable future, [...]

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