It seems you can’t keep a good story down. No sooner do we bring you news of a leaked Samsung netbook than the company reacts and makes it official. The Samsung N310 has been designed to offer a hint of style to the crowded netbook market, bringing with it a clear slice of differentiation.
The Samsung N310 has been given its cool and sophisticated look courtesy of Naoto Fukasawa, a top designer with 50 design awards under his belt. The design brings with it a sleek frameless screen and pebble design keyboard.
The Samsung N310 has a high-class design appeal to it but still manages to weigh a sprightly 1.2kg, making it the lightest 10.1-inch netbook on the market, or so Samsung claims. This design comes with a 4-cell battery that offers up to five hours of battery life but we’re expecting a high-capacity battery to be offered as an optional extra.
The design incorporates a new look keyboard that has flat keys but makes the most of the space on offer and is 93 per cent the size of a standard laptop keyboard. The 10.1-inch screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels and the standard array of features as we’d expect, including 1.3-megapixel webcam, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3-in-1 card reader.
While the previous Samsung, the NC20, used a VIA chip, you’ll find a return of the Intel Atom N280 to this device, along with 1024MB of memory and 160GB hard drive. The Windows XP OS is standard across the Samsung range, as the company has never offered a Linux version of its netbooks.
Pricing hasn’t been set but the Samsung N310 will ship in the UK in May. Nor have we any details of the colours that will be shipping in the UK but we can guess that Black and White will be the first ones to ship.
Check out our review of the Samsung NC10, still possibly the best ever netbook yet.
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Well it’s certainly a funky looking little device. I wonder who exactly it will appeal to in the long run?!