14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung Electronics Co. today announced that it has launched the world's first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte (GB) NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD).
As NAND flash-memory disks were created in order to replace the deficient everyday hard drives, Samsung materializes this project by adopting NAND for commercial mobile computing applications.
Besides the already controversial Q1, the well-known ultra-mobile computing device, Samsung has also launched another 12.1-inch screen notebook PC - the Q30.
The NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD) is able to read 300 % faster (53MB/s) and write 150 % more rapidly (28MB/s) than any other normal hard drive. This is why the device featuring this new storage technology can run simultaneously multiple application programs and also edit and reproduce a large amount of data.
In addition, the drive is also lighter than the traditional hard drives, weighing between 20-30 grams less, depending on the package type. A common 1.8-inch hard drive weighs around 50 grams. Also, Microsoft Windows XP operating system will boot up 25-50% faster on the SSD than on other drives and this is really good news for all Microsoft fans.
The manufacturer said that its Q1-SSD will be at least 30% faster than a portable multimedia player (PMP) and that all the multimedia features will be accessed instantly, such as videos, photos, audio play and digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) TV, and so on.
Any computer owner always brags about his notebook, not saying how annoying it can be after a while when it starts making all kinds of weird noises, as notebooks generate around 30dB of operating noise. This is why Samsung thought it should offer a soundless PC, the first of its kind.
Q1-SSD will be available at a retail price of $2,430, while Q30-SSD can be purchased for $3,700.