Samsung Q1-SSD reviewed

We've just come across a complete review of Samsung's Q1-SSD UMPC, the first device in its class with a solid state NAND flash drive. Sammy's had some ups and downs with its Q1 devices over the last few months, giving us all the more reason to wonder what Riyad Emeran of TrustedReviews had to say about it. The verdict? That 32GB flash drive is pretty freakin' fast -- Emeran noted the Q1-SSD booted in a snappy 22 seconds, notched a PCMark hard drive score of 5895 (more than twice as fast as an HP Compaq nc2400), and was able to perform a complete system restore in just over four minutes. However, that performance increase for the flash drive doesn't translate into as large of a battery life jump as we'd like, given that the battery only lasts about three hours, compared to two hours on the original Q1. But the worst aspect of the Q1-SSD, as TrustedReviews notes, is the fact that its retail price is £1,400 ($2,663) -- double the original MSRP of the Q1 (£700, or $1,331). For that level of coinage, you may just want to stick to the pokey-but-slim Compaq nc2400 to lighten your gadget bag.

[Gil @ Sep 25th 2006 8:39AM]

It's getting there. Soon Origami PCs will be all they were promised to be

[abigsmurf @ Sep 25th 2006 10:36AM]

May as well get an ultra portable. Better batterylife, more powerfull and they have keyboards.

Again these have no market at their current price

[Simon @ Sep 25th 2006 11:11AM]

Soon? Maybe in one or two years ...

Though, I'm hoping display and battery tech has eveolved enough till then to create some totaly new kind of PDA.

It's great to live in the time of rapid change, but then again it makes it hard to decide to go with the current state of affairs or wait for the next step.

[Blax @ Sep 25th 2006 7:50PM]

Wasn't one of the main selling points supposed to be the price? Twice to price and still not all the features that we were promised doesn't make it seem worth it at all.

[sfeng1 @ Sep 25th 2006 9:43PM]

wow at that price i'd rather get an OQO