Paul Taylor the Inquirer, Friday 19 September 2008. 11:16:00

Fashionably late

THE GREAT CHAEBOL of computing, Samsung Electronics, announced this mornin’ its hip new porta-laptop, the NC10. You’ve probably guessed by now that it sports the same hardware you’ll find in most other netbooks on the market: the Atom CPU, a 10-inch 1024×600 LED screen, 80GB or 160GB HDD (we’re presuming, Samsung being what it is, SSDs are on the horizon), BT 2.0+EDR, 1.3mp webcam and 3-in-1 card reader. The NC10 does have some slight differences from the majority of netbooks. Take for example the GMA950 graphics (not as bad as the 945). Shiny and tiny What Samsung is touting, however, is the netbook’s ingenious design (although ‘Going out in style’ hardly means what they think it means)….

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Paul Taylor , Friday 19 September 2008. 11:16:00

Fashionably late

THE GREAT CHAEBOL of computing, Samsung Electronics, announced this mornin’ its hip new porta-laptop, the NC10. You’ve probably guessed by now that it sports the same hardware you’ll find in most other netbooks on the market: the Atom CPU, a 10-inch 1024×600 LED screen, 80GB or 160GB HDD (we’re presuming, Samsung being what it is, SSDs are on the horizon), BT 2.0+EDR, 1.3mp webcam and 3-in-1 card reader. The NC10 does have some slight differences from the majority of netbooks. Take for example the GMA950 graphics (not as bad as the 945). Shiny and tiny What Samsung is touting, however, is the netbook’s ingenious design (although ‘Going out in style’ hardly means what they think it means)….

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LCD panel revenues dropped 11% sequentially in June, with Samsung Electronics remaining the worldwide number-one supplier in terms revenues, followed by LG Display (LGD) and AU Optronics (AUO), according to DisplaySearch.

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