Samsung unable to find netbook buyer for its 1.8-inch HDD

Samsung launched its huge 250GB 1.8-inch HDD in the month of July 2009, but it was unable to attract any buyers for it. It seems as if the market for 1.8-inch market is now dying. Samsung’s new 1.8-inch HDD offers reduced power consumption against all 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch hard disks and has improved shock protection.

Interestingly, all hard disk manufactures left the 1.8-inch hard disk market, but Samsung and Toshiba. Last year, Toshiba came up with 120GB, 240GB and 250GB 1.8-inch hard disks, but they did not receive a tremendous response from various laptop or netbook manufactures.

Clearly, gone are the days that netbooks are shrinking. Most of the netbook manufactures are now coming up with bigger and bigger netbooks. Due to the increased sizes of current netbooks, netbook manufactures are easily able to use the standard 2.5-inch hard disks instead of the smaller 1.8-inch ones and thus has reduced the demand by a lot.

Motion J3400 – Meet the fastest slate Tablet in the world

How fast is too fast? While most of the  netbooks are still coming with Intel Atom processors, folks at Motion have come up with a new rugged tablet PC that is equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo processor that runs at 1.6GHz processor. This processor is much faster than any Intel Atom processor.

Here are its features:

• Hot-swappable dual battery design for all day computing
• 1.8 inch hard disk drive (HDD) that provides extra shock protection
• Shock-mounted display and HDD with DataGuard™
• Optional low cost 64GB SSD for extreme shock and vibration protection
• 2.0 megapixel camera for seamless, in-the-field documentation
• GPS for real-time mapping, location tracking or the geo-tagging of digital photos

Motion’s J3400 offers all of the durability and functionality of a rugged PC, without the extra weight and price associated with traditional fully rugged devices.   Customers across industries, including field service, construction, healthcare and automotive services are excited about the rugged design, integrated features and outdoor visibility options.

There is also an option to get one with 1.4GHz processor. Click here to know more about Motion J3400.