Samsung release new ‘clever’ N-Series netbooks
We’d all like to think laptops and netbooks give us the freedom to productively work away cable free on lengthy flights or in trendy cafes but in reality it’s not long before you find yourself scrabbling around for a socket before that last 10% of battery powers out. Enter Samsung’s N-Series – bringing a new dimension to the netbook market new meaning to the word portable.
Due to be on sale at the end of this month, the N210 and N220 will deliver an impressive 12 hours of battery life, the NB30 offers 11 hours and the N150 will stay alive for about the length of a flight from Las Vegas back to London – if you were fortunate enough to have brought one of these back from CES last week.
Samsung have done an excellent job in tantalising tech-tastebuds and packing in what’s important to netbook users. Each model has a 10.1 inch LED and anti-reflective screen with changeable resolution for different software needs. The inbuilt Intel Atom N450 processor allows for super-fast internet connection and it doesn’t drain battery life; what’s more, the N210 and N220 include a clever Instant On function that connects the netbook to a network as soon as they are switched on, this means you don’t have to wait until Windows has loaded to get online.
For the clumsy, the NB30 is the first netbook to feature a water tight seal to prevent damage from water spills as well as a freefall sensor that protects data when it detects the netbook dropping. All four models come with scratch-resistant casing meaning you don’t have to handle them with kid-gloves.
It seems Samsung have thought of everything. And if you’re worried someone may pinch your shiny new piece of technology, the N-Series also includes Phoenix FailSafe anti-theft software that allows a device to be tracked and the option to retrieve, erase or transfer important data to a home PC if it gets stolen. Very clever indeed.
The only aspect of the N-series up for speculation is the pricing, but we won’t have to wait too long to find that out as they are due to be on sale at the end of this month.
