Samsung Notebook in America

Samsung announced that it will enter the U.S. market with a full line of notebook computers, including light netbook, 16-inch notebook for entertainment, and only about the size of each between the two. Until now, Samsung and computers sold abroad, but only sold K1 UMPC America. Competition is always a good thing, and spur innovation, or at least drives prices down.

Samsung’s trying to market the United States and a storm that has partnered with just about every major reseller and e-tailer outside. Amazon.com, PC Mall, TigerDirect.com, Ingram Micro, CDU and many others will be selling Samsung notebooks.

It will be very interesting to see how U.S. actions and consumers react to Samsung notebooks. What is popular in one region is not always translate to other markets. At the CES 2008, one of the Eksec top U.S. laptop manufacturer told me that “we are all drunk when Samsung started selling notebook here.”

There will be five Samsung notebook lines sold in the United States, in a range of only 499 dollars to 2,499 dollars.

The Samsung N Series is the 10.2-inch netbook to Intel Atom processor, up to 1GB memory and 160GB hard drive. It cost about 499 dollars.

Samsung is the P series is mid-range of 13.3-inch business notebook, which will start in the $ 1199.

The HP series Samsung is the high-end thin and light notebook. PS Series comes in 13.3 and 14.1-inch versions, offering items such as the LED-backlit displays and 128GB hard drives. PS Series will compete with the likes of Sony VAIO Z series.

In the Samsung P Series notebook line is an NGO, with 14.1-inch and 15:4-inch displays, to 320GB hard drives, DVD burners and multi-format memory card readers.

The R Series Samsung is a company in a notebook for entertainment. It contains a 16-inch screen and NVIDIA 9200M GS graphics.