News - Samsung's NVIDIA ION-powered N510 netbook to launch this month?

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French retailer lets slip pricing and availability details for Samsung's first ION portable.

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Hurrah! At last an Ion portable with a sensible choice of CPU!

Will definitely be keeping an eye on this one, although the HP dv2 is looking favourite in my household at the moment...

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Originally Posted by scaryjim

Hurrah! At last an Ion portable with a sensible choice of CPU!

Will definitely be keeping an eye on this one, although the HP dv2 is looking favourite in my household at the moment...

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Indeed. Shame though that my order for a dv2 from HP has been put on "backorder". Date keeps moving, so I'm doubting I'll ever get it :(

A portable laptop you can\'t get, or the N510... the graphics on this should hopefully make it more useful, so it\'s going to be a tough decision!

What\'s the weight on that?

Gotta be <1.5Kg really, and last a good 4-5hrs minimum on battery to be any good.

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Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle

Gotta be <1.5Kg really, and last a good 4-5hrs minimum on battery to be any good.

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Problem is, which people tend to overlook, the smaller a laptop/netbook is, the less space there is for the battery. So while components might be far more frugal than your average laptop, if it's enclosed in a small shell, then there's less space for a battery. So it pretty much evens out compared to a larger, more powerful laptop.

Same applies to weight. The battery is the heaviest single part of a netbook... and the longer that battery lasts, generally the heavier it will be... so it's back to the old having and eating of cakes.

Not talking about this netbook in particular - it certainly looks as though it'll be under 1.5kg, even with the slightly larger footprint - it's just something that's slowly been winding me up in recent months.

Sony P series manages the 4 hours easily, whilst been very light.

*shrug* I can cope with anything under 2Kg for general portability, and I should imagine that even a hefty 6-cell battery wouldn't push this over that, and should acheive a battery life of ~ 4 hours (of course, Ion is inherently more power-hungry than 945GSE, so the battery life will remain the biggest concern).

The Acer Aspire 3810TG seems to be the best all-rounder at the minute: I'd be interested to know how long the battery lasts if you're using the discreet Radeon graphics heavily, though... ;)

The Acer Aspire 3810TG looks really good for about £150 more than this.
Is the price between netbooks with Atoms, small screens, not a huge amount of storage and not much memory and a small laptop that is useable for general purpose apps getting smaller and smaller?

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Originally Posted by jimbo90210us

Is the price between netbooks with Atoms, small screens, not a huge amount of storage and not much memory and a small laptop that is useable for general purpose apps getting smaller and smaller?

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Seems to be, with the increasing take up of Intel's CULV and (to a lesser extent) AMD's Yukon. Hopefully that'll mean a reduction in price for Atom-based netbooks. Also, I suspect it won't be too long before we see Ion + CULV in the £600+ price segment for ultra-portables ...

I am very much looking forward to this netbook, just the price remains the only thing that could put me off at the moment. I hope they manage to sell it at around £400, more than £450 and I'd probably rather get a Timeline.