Samsung Upgrades Ultramobile PC On The Sly
At 1.7 pounds and less than an inch thick, Samsung already had one of the smallest PCs around. Now it seems as though it got an upgrade.
Samsung quietly launches new ultramobile PCs | InfoWorld | News | 2006-10-20 | By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
The Q1-Pentium has a 60GB hard-disk drive and 1GB of memory, while the Q1b has a 40GB drive and 512MB of memory. The latter configuration is similar to the original model. The screen on both machines is unchanged from the launch model. It’s a 7-inch widescreen touch-panel display with 800 by 480 pixel resolution.The Q1-Pentium is priced at $1,250 and the Q1b $900, according to a listing on Internet shopping sites newegg.com and cdw.com. The same sites sell the original model for $1,000.
Its battery life is about three hours.