CES: Samsung releases solid state ultra-mobile Q1 with no moving parts

Here a the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung launched a successor to its popular Q1 ultra mobile PC (UMPC) called the Q1P SSD. It's the first Q1 to use an SSD solid state flash memory-based hard drive in place of a conventional rotational media-based hard drive.  With SSD, there are no moving parts and the results are faster boot times as well as a much improved resistance to shock.

Samsung officials claim that the $1999 1.7-pound Q1 UMPC can boot  25 - 50 percent faster than systems using regular hard drives. Also, applications and data access times are expected to improve since no "seeking" across a hard drives' various moving platters is necessary to retrieve instructions or data. One limitation however, of an SSD-based PC like the Q1 is the total amount of drive space. Even with the ever-shrinking memory footprint that allows system designers to pack more memory into less and less space, the largest capacity Q1 comes in at 32GB. Even so, it's expandable by connecting an external drive to one of its USB ports (although that could, to some extent, interfere with its "ultra mobility."

Here's the video of the Q1 at from the show: