Categories: General, Vista, Hardware Infrastructure, Mobile, Personal Technology, Wired & Wireless, Video
Tags: Hard Drive, PC, Ultramobile PC, RIM BlackBerry, David Berlind
If there’s an ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) that I’d most want
for myself today, that UMPC might very well be the newest Q1 Ultra from
Samsung. Earlier this year at CES, I got a real good gander
at Samsung’s then latest greatest: the Q1 SDD. The Q1 UMPC had
already been out for a while. But the Q1 SSD marked the first time that
the Q1 took on a solid state disk (SSD) instead of a traditional hard
drive with platters, heads, and moving parts.
SSD’s have their pros and cons. On the downside, relative to
their mechanical siblings, they don’t store nearly as much for
every square millimeter of space they take up. Where SSD’s are
making their appearances today, most of them are 32 GB in size. Just
moments before videotaping the latest UMPC (above), we videotaped some
new hard drives coming from Samsung as well, including a USB-based 80
gigger that’s basically the size of a credit card (thickness is
about 3 or 4 credit cards). So, that gives you some idea of how far
behind SSD technology is lagging hard drive technology.
On the pro side, SSDs are significantly faster than mechanical hard
drives and take less energy. The energy issue is of particular
importance. Not only are the batteries found in UMPCs usually smaller
than the ones found in notebooks, a typical UMPC may have more demands
being placed on its battery. For example, the touch senstive display
requires more power than a typical LCD, there’s a higher
likelihood that the Bluetooth radio (if one is present as it is in the
Q1’s) will be used for a wireless keyboard, and there is of
course the WiFi radio too.
With the new $1499 Q1 Ultra, Samsung has married its SSD technology
to the latest Q1 industrial design which, as can be seen from the
picture and the video, includes a BlackBerry-like QWERTY thumboard
that’s split down the middle with one half being on the right
side of the display and the other on the left. The Ultra has an Secure
Digital slot and plenty of ports for expansion (eg: USB for thumb
drives or a keyboard and a VGA port so it can be connected to an
external monitor). Anyway, check out the video and pay close attention
to a prediction that we’ll see bigger SSDs (eg: 64GB) in the very
near future. Now that rocks.
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