Samsung has just announced its successful completion of customer evaluations for 2GB DDR3 DRAM using 30nm process technology. Being the first one in the industry to produce 30nm-class DRAM that’s billed as the “most advanced low-power DDR3 available”, Samsung is rightly proud. Samsung’s president of the Memory Division, Soo-In Cho, was quoted as saying, “Our accelerated development of next generation 30nm-class DRAM should keep us in the most competitive position in the memory market.” And I’m sure the likes of Kingston and Corsair are watching closely.

According to Samsung, their 30nm-class DDR3 DRAM reduces power consumption by up to 30 percent over 50nm-class DRAM, and a 4GB module used in a new-generation notebook will consume only three watts per hour, which is just three percent of the total power usage of a notebook. As such, this is the perfect companion to Intel’s new low-power Atom processors, so expect these to find their way in new netbooks some time in the near future. That would be around the second half of 2010, when Samsung starts 30nm DDR3 mass production.

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Dell has published photos with instructions on how to disassemble and upgrade or replace components of the Inspiron Mini 10. In these photos, it is revealed that replacing the hard drive and wireless card is quite difficult, as it requires removing the keyboard. And by removing the trackpad assemby, one can gain access to the spot for the optional TV tuner, Atom CPU and RAM. Unfortunately, the RAM is soldered to you won’t be able to upgrade it to a higher capacity. In any case, these photos will surely help out anyone looking to peek inside the Dell Mini 10′s innards. More photos at the link below.

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Are you looking forward to clutching your very own Asus Eee PC 1000HE in the near future? Then you may also be thinking about adding a little bit of extra RAM for added performance. If you think the process will be overly complicated, use the handy guide that the great folks over at LaptopMag have put together, which details, step by step, the directions for adding RAM to the Eee PC 1000HE. All you’ll need are the proper tools, a few minutes of extra time, and remember to ground yourself before starting. Keep this guide safe somewhere on your hard drive for now and wait for your Eee PC 1000HE to arrive.

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Anyone who’s owned a netbook long enough will figure out that its stock 1GB of RAM won’t go too far when it comes to performance, especially when one is forced to make friends with Vista instead of the more lightweight Windows XP. It’s a good thing that manufacturers have provisioned for extra memory slots so that upgrades can easily be done, bringing the memory up to a nice 2GB spot which makes for a very healthy computing setup.

But what’s this? Looking at the recently exposed photos of the MSI Wind U120 innards, JKOnTheRun has found that an extra RAM slot is nowhere to be found. That means no matter how delicately a user manages to open its casing, the MSI Wind U120 will be stuck with 1GB of RAM, forever.

Perhaps MSI has done this on purpose in order to put a kind of gap between its netbooks and full-blown notebooks, but don’t you think that’s a bad idea? Limiting a product’s performance when it comes out of the box is one thing, but taking away a user’s options completely is just cruel. We’ll see how well consumers receive this when they get their hands on the MSI Wind U120. Which they can, now that it’s already available for order online.

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