Samsung Q40 gets SSD, just like big brother Q30
It's anything but surprising that Samsung would follow up the Q30-SSD with a Q40 edition, but we sure are happy to finally be out of the Celeron M dark ages -- the Q30 was really showing its age. Now instead of slumming it to get some Sammy-flavored SSD, you can snap up a Q40 with 16GB or 32GB of NAND preloaded. Oddly, with all that Core Solo ULV power and Intel 945GM chipset -- ok, not exactly blazing -- we're surprised to see that Samsung is still sticking with good ol' XP instead of showing a bit of Vista sheen on this 12.1-inch unit. Perhaps the Q50 will finally have it all? The Vista-less Q40 will be hitting Hong Kong "soon" for an unannounced sticker price.[Via Core Duo News; thanks Staska]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fanboi @ Feb 27th 2007 12:39PM
Still runs crappy Windoze though....
Kev50027 @ Feb 27th 2007 12:49PM
Windows is the standard, if it didn't run Windows, I wouldn't be interested, neither would the vast majority of the rest of the world. You suck.
Dolla Dolla @ Feb 27th 2007 1:20PM
Being Vista-less is actually good news. Vista won't be worth the money until service pack 1 is released.
jordan @ Feb 27th 2007 2:39PM
Actually, I don't believe Vista will ever be truly worth the money. I come from the camp of "your OS should work around *this* generation's hardware, not only the newest and best of CPU's and video cards out there, even after turning off all of the pretty visual effects."
As not to be completely off-topic, I am very happy about the recent market introduction of NAND SSD into notebooks (as a consumer). Increased disk life (assumedly), increased wear and tear ability, decreased power usage? Those are all plusses in my book. Increased price/GB? Well, not completely desirable, but hopefully the other factors will outweigh the price in the long run (longer overall laptop life, hopefully).
Has anyone considered the data recovery business for devices like these? Obviously the same traditional methods won't work, since there are no moving parts to take apart, but I'm curious as to how that business is taking this new technology (not that standard HDs will be going anywhere soon).
Tracy in Cary @ Feb 27th 2007 3:06PM
I'm sure the big companies in data recovery will have something by the end of the year. They already claim to support data recovery from typical flash memory sources. I use Data Recovery Labs (aka Actionfront now) at least once a year.