Samsung netbooks have always been a successful marriage of portability and price.
The $349 Samsung N150 Plus we reviewed earlier this year was no exception and now, the company strikes again with the NF series, a new line of 10.1-inch netbooks that will soon pack dual-core Intel CPUs and come with an eye-catching shark fin design that traces the bottom portion of the chassis.
What about the N150? Well, rather than phase out its production, Samsung is updating the popular 10.1-inch netbook with new black and matte exteriors as well the same  dual-core CPU that will help push the battery longevity of some NF branded notebooks into the 14-hour bracket.
The NF210 will be the line’s first offering and it’s not very tricked out in the specs department. When the 11 x 7 x 1-inch notebook lands later this month, it’ll offer a 1024 x 600 resolution, 250GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data. Learn Morehard drive, 1GB of included RAM (and a 2GB cap), Graphics chips are responsible for processing all images sent to your computer?s display. Learn Moreintegrated graphics, and Windows 7 Starter, all for the attractive and familiar price of $379.
The NF210 will also sport an Intel Atom N455 processor, which, these days, Â has become fairly de rigueur in the netbook market.
On the other hand, the NF310, expected to debut in October for $399, will pack Intel’s first multi-core Atom processor. The new CPUs are expected to raise performance (at least marginally), lengthen battery life, and support DDR4 memory, so to see the chips shipping in new netbooks is an exciting proposition.
Not many details on the NF310 are available save 1GB of DDR4 RAM and Windows 7 Starter.
Samsung tells us the NF210 will ship exclusively from Sam’s Club stores, so get your member cards ready, shoppers!
Look for the updated, dual-core Samsung N150 and NF310 to drop in October and steal a better peak of the Samsung NF series in the gallery below.
Among the other notebooks Samsung announced today is the QX410, a stylish system with plenty of power. It looks very similar to the Q430-11 which we reviewed last month. It has a brushed aluminum lid and deck, a chiclet-styly keyboard, and a fairly large 3.9 x 2.4-inch touchpad with integrated mouse buttons.
The notebook has a 14-inch edge-to-edge glass display, a Core i5 processor, and Nvidia graphics and Optimus technology.
Like the MacBook Pro and HP Envy lines, the QX410′s battery–5,500 mAh, good for about 7 hours of runtime on MobileMark– is not user replaceable; Samsung says that shouldn’t matter much, as the lithium-polymer battery is good for 1,000 cycles, or about 3 years.
The notebook will be available in late September, and be sold exclusively at Best Buy. The MSRP is $929, but Samsung expects it will go on sale for $849.
On the heels of several other notebook announcements, including the QX410, the NF Series, and the SF510, Samsung added to powerful new systems to their lineup with the 15.6-inch RF510 ($899) and the 17-inch RF710 ($999). Aimed at the gamer/multimedia enthusiast crowd, both sport a subtle swirl pattern on the lid, while packing Nvidia 330M GPU, 1GB video memory, and Intel’s Turbo Boost technology under the hood. These two systems also bring USB 3.0 to Samsung notebooks. The RF510 includes Intel Core i5, while the bigger brother packs Core i7, 640GB of storage, and a Blu-ray drive. The RF710 will be sold exclusively through Tiger Direct.
For the most part, we’ve given high marks to notebooks sold exclusively at Best Buy. The latest to join the collection is the $799 Samsung SF510, a 15.6-inch notebook announced today that packs an Intel Core i3 processor, a 500GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data. Learn Morehard drive, purported 7-hour battery life, Intel Graphics chips are responsible for processing all images sent to your computer?s display. Learn Moreintegrated graphics, WiMax support, and Samsung’s fast boot software, which doesn’t actually make startup faster, but helps the notebook return from sleep and hibernation more quickly.
If that wave on the side looks familiar (check out photos of the notebook in profile), that’s because the N150, the netbook also announced today, has a similar look, which, by the by, Samsung calls its Shark design. The laptop only comes in one color, though, so we hope you’re happy with the idea of an ivory lid, brown interior, and chrome rim. (We would be, but that’s just us.)
The SF510 will be available at Best Buy this fall (a Samsung rep told us that means late September or early October, specifically).
When it comes to the Samsung Galaxy Tab, we’ve already heard details about availability and seen an employee testing it out in the wild, but the latest piece of information looks considerably more intriguing.
Per Engadget, a Korean news outlet posted a short hands-on video preview with the tablet today. Besides doing a size comparison between the Apple iPad, the Galaxy Tab and the Galaxy S, the video covers some new ground.
It’s already known that the tablet sports Android 2.2, Swype, WCDMA 3G and a seven-inch screen. The video does briefly go over the Galaxy Tab’s Digital Multimedia Broadcasting tuner–channels are displayed on a tab at the left side of the screen.
Today Electronista caught some video of the Galaxy Tab being used by an anonymous telephone company worker on the train in Sydney, Australia. When the telco worker was asked about how the device was he commented that it was “awesome” and when compared to iPad to be “very different.”
The 7-inch Android tablet has been speculated on time and time again, but this new footage of real world testing suggests it maybe soon ready for release.
Battery life often tends to be a problem when it comes to mobile devices—a laptop might have great internal specs, but if you burn through the battery in a few hours, it makes the system much less useful.
Short endurance is a problem we ran into in our review of the Samsung Q430-11. We are fans of the notebook’s great performance—it sports a Core i5-450M 2.4-GHz CPU, a 14-inch display, 4GB DDR3 RAM and Nvidia GeForce 310M graphics, so it’s certainly no slouch for the price tag when it comes to gaming. Plus, the Q430-11′s brushed aluminum chassis earned equally high marks.
However, in spite of the Q430-11′s six-cell battery, we only managed to eke out 3 hours and 17 minutes of juice from the notebook. Compared to other similarly built notebooks, that’s not the most impressive score.
So far, the Samsung X125 hasn’t hit U.S. shores yet—the slim 11.6-inch notebook is only available in the U.K. and parts of Europe. However, that hasn’t stopped Netherlands-based fashion blog Modeblog.nl from posting a review of the netbook on YouTube.
The X125 sports an Athlon II Neo K125 1.7-GHz processor, 2GB to 3GB DDR3 RAM and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics. While the improved Graphics chips are responsible for processing all images sent to your computer?s display. Learn Moregraphics chip adds some extra horsepower to the netbook, the site says that construction issues and poor battery life hurt the X125′s overall performance. Check out the full video review below.
The Samsung X125 is a new thin and light laptop features an AMD Athlon II Neo K125 CPU and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics. The laptop isn’t available in the US yet, but the folks at Modeblog.nl in the Netherlands managed to get their hands on the 11.6 inch laptop and they’ve posted a video review, which you can check out after the break.
Modeblog.nl isn’t really a computer site, but the review does a pretty good job of covering the overall design and performance of the laptop.
The reviewer wasn’t that impressed with the 2.5 hours of battery life, but this unit had just a 4 cell battery. It also looks like the X125 has a netbook sized keyboard which doesn’t go from edge to edge. There’s really room for a full sized keyboard on a notebook this size, so it’s not clear why Samsung would choose to use a smaller keyboard.
On the other hand, the reviewer really seemed to like the build quality.
You can check out the video overview after the break.
Samsung is introducing an updated version of its S2 USB portable hard drive. And in case you thought all USB hard drives were created equal, here’s two reasons it turns out you were wrong. First, the new Samsung S2 drives will feature Superspeed USB 3.0 interfaces. And second, they’ll have 7200RPM spindle speeds. Most portable hard drives top out at 5400RPM
The top file transfer speed supported by USB 3.0 is 5 Gbps, which is a little over 10 times faster than what you can expect from a USB 2.0 hard drive — although there’s always a big difference between a theoretical limit and actual performance.
Samsung says the S2 line of hard drives are also designed to run quietly.
The Samsung S2 Portable 3.0 hard drives will be available in Europe later this month in 320GB and 640GB versions. There’s no word on a US release date or pricing.
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Among the other notebooks Samsung announced today is the QX410, a stylish system with plenty of power. It looks very similar to the 
