Samsung will offer a UMPC (Origami) and a notebook PC based on its 32GB Flash-based SSD (solid state drive) in Korea, starting next month. The drive is the one I wrote about last week in Ask Jack, but I'm still surprised to see Samsung building it into PCs, even as an experiment.
The Samsung press release covers the benefits, including speed, resilience and quiet operation. It also gives the prices:
The retail price for the Q1-SSD will be KRW2.3 million (US$2,430), while the Q30-SSD will sell for KRW3.5 million (US$3,700).
That's pretty expensive for low-spec Celeron-based PCs with only 512MB of memory!
Both machines will run Microsoft Windows XP, and the ultra-mobile Q1 uses the Tablet PC Edition. In the photo above, however, the screen at the front is showing Windows Vista with the mountain screen background and a bunch of gadgets (clock etc) on the right hand side. At the moment, that looks like becoming the Vista equivalent to Bliss -- XP's rolling hills.
