Microsoft has a habit of coming up with ideas and then leaving it to the hardware manufacturers to
make it happen. In recent memory we’ve had the home display, which died a death and the Tablet PC, which is still around but not in the form MS first imaged. The latest is the UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC), which is a computer literally in the palm of your hand.
Samsung was the first company to launch such a device earlier this year and this version, the SSD, is essentially the same model but with one important new feature – it has no moving parts. This has been done by the addition of a solid state hard drive.
The original Q1 came with a 40GB mechanical hard drive like any other computer. Now we have 32GB of NAND flash, think of it as a giant USB memory key inside your computer and you won’t go too far wrong. Aside from no moving parts, it offers faster boot-up times and considerably quicker read/write times.
We’re reliably informed that Write speeds are twice what you can expect from a mechanical drive, while Read speeds also four times as fast. Performance is a vast improvement over the older model and you’ll even find the unit weighs less 745g compared to 800g. Samsung Q1 SSD Ultra Mobile PC Review - Pocket-lint.co.uk