UK Netbook Review

We first heard about the upcoming Samsung NF series netbooks yesterday, and already we have our first hands-on. Liliputing took a look at the Samsung NF210. You’ll remember the NF210 slots in right between the low-end NF110 and the slightly more expensive NF310. Brad mentions that initially, the NF210 will be exclusive to Sam’s Club (think Walmart, but bigger) in the States, where it will be priced at $379.99.

We’ve seen lots of netook manufacturers jump on the Intel N550 bandwagon recently but this morning Samsung stepped it up a notch by introducing a brand new series of netbooks – the NF110, NF210, and NF310. The top of line mode, NF310, gets tej 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 CPU and a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display. It runs Windows 7 Starter Edition and should cost about $399 (in the US) when it goes on sale this Fall.

Notebook Italia reports that Samsung will show off a new ‘thin and light’ laptop called the Samsung X125 at IFA in September. The notebook could be a follow-up to the Samsung X120. According to Notebook Italia, the new model will us an AMD Athlon II Neo K125 processor and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics. As is typical for the ‘thin and light’ category, the Samsung X125 has a larger 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, 3G of memory, a 320GB hard drive, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and a 6 cell battery.

Here’s the latest from Samsung’s marketing department- the new Samsung N230 will start shipping on June 28th in the States. The N230 is capable of an impressive 13.8 hours of battery life on one charge of its 6-cell 66Wh battery. You can also downgrade to a 32Wh battery, good for 7 hours of charge. There’s also a 10.1” matte display with either a 1.66 GHz processor or 1.83 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM and a 250 GB HDD. So standard netbook specs, but there is an optional 3g modem and a standard wireless b/g/n capable WiFi card.

We just saw a refrech of the Samsung N150, called the Samsung N150 Plus and now we find out Samsung is also giving the ‘plus’ treatment to the existing Samsung N220, N230, and NB30 models. So what does that mean? Well, basically all that means is that the new models have 250GB hard drives instead of 160GB disks.