News - Samsung NC20 netbook: one small step for Samsung, one giant leap for VIA

[HEXUS]

According to reports, Samsung's next netbook could shun Intel's Atom processor in favour of VIA's Nano.

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[3dcandy]

Will be a bit faster than an ATom though, they seem a bit weedy to me!

:-(

[Noxvayl]

I want to get a netbook but I didn't like the sluggish nature of Atom with media tasks. VIA claim there Trinity system to be capable of HD1080 playback without lag currently found on Atom netbooks. I would love to see the actual performance of the hardware so we can lay to rest these "claims" currently circulating.

AMD will be placing there own system in the netbook space with media capabilities claimed to be greater than the current equipment available.

Be interesting to see what tasks these systems are capable of, looks to be a good year for portable computing next year that's for sure.

[Funkstar]

That 12.1" screen might be larger than most others in this segment, but it really does look like a very thin laptop, especially when you considder how chunky the Eee is.

[zugged]

On paper I would rather have a dual core Atom, but like ExHail said, we need benchmarks

[strike-down]

Would also be worth seeing what the real world performance is with NVidias Ion chipset and the atom
Intels 945 chipset is heavily dated. Dont know why they used it

[duc]

The NC20, pictured below....

The picture is of Samsung's x360 rival to Apple's Air ultraportable.

[Spud1]

Thats getting rather large for a netbook...the entire point of netbooks is that they are tiny things that almost fit in your pocket..adding a relatively huge screen kind of defeats the point.

There is no need for a powerful CPU in them either - they are not designed for high quality video playback (wtf would be the point of HD content on a 12" screen anyway??) and all that a more powerful CPU will do is eat up battery life and make them run hotter. Your into laptop territory really with that sort of thing..however I do agree that the atom is a bit weedy, mainly as its got such a cut down feature set. For most tasks the celeron in my e900 is faster than the atom, it just runs hotter and eats more power

The NC10 is a lovely device though, my mother just got one for xmas..I still prefer my little eeepc purely as its smaller/lighter but the NC10 is definitely a nice machine.