By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Michael Dodgson, Samsung Canada's product marketing manager for notebooks spent time with Canadian Reviewer to discuss their latest line of netbooks and notebooks. See the video above or hit the jump to get more details.
Samsung has been a longtime manufacturer of notebooks specially in Asia where it is considered a premium brand. They are currently offering consumer and business oriented models in North America focusing primarily on the netbook space and also the consumer notebook area. Most people aren't aware that Samsung produces a large number of LCD screens, hard drives, RAM memory and other components.
The grippy and tough NB30 is Samsung's rugged netbook ideal for students.
Dodgson revealed that Samsung's notebooks and netbooks also have their own battery technology and have managed to enable higher capacity in smaller batteries. They also have their own power managment software.
Avilable in Canada now are the N210, N220 and rugged NB30 netbooks Touting 11-hour battery life, 250GB hard drives and Wi-Fi n the netbooks aim to compete in the Atom-powered 10' inch space and start at $429.99. Samsung has included the instant-on sub operating system from Phoenix called HyperSpace which powers-on instantaneously and offers shortcuts to mail, browsing, Facebook, Twitter and similar apps.
Samsung's R480 14'inch notebook sports Intel's Core i3 processor
The notebooks sport Intel's Core i3 and i5 processors and are available in 14, 15 and 17 inch configurations and start at $900.
