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Samsung Q30 Plus Notebook: Minimum Weight and Maximum Performance (page 4)

Category: Mobile

by Alexander Britvin

[ 01/11/2006 | 02:27 PM ]

The Samsung Q30 Plus offers you a variety of interfaces and input/output ports and these are all properly placed around the case. Using a power-economical processor the engineers could do without a ventilation system, so you are free to put this sub-notebook just as you wish without worrying that you unintentionally block some vent openings.

The following connectors are located on the left panel:

• Power connector
• D-Sub connector for an external monitor
• USB 2.0 port
• 6-pin FireWire port
• Headphones output combined with a digital S/PDIF audio output
• Microphone input

The fact that the Samsung Q30 Plus comes with an external optical drive is probably an advantage since you don’t often use one on the go, but it would have made the sub-notebook heavier. The optical drive connects via the FireWire interface on the left panel.

The following is located on the right panel:

• Compact Flash card slot
• USB 2.0 port
• Modem port (RJ-11)
• Network port (RJ-45)
• Power On button

The Power On button is highlighted with a bright blue light at work. It is placed in such a way that you can easily find it blindly.

A Kensington lock and the accumulator battery are located at the back: