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Overview
Samsung is a well known name in the mobile market but its foray into the laptop market has always been greeted with a mixed reception. The Samsung R60 is hopefully going to change all that, and with a price tag to match it’s hard not to take a second glance at this laptop. So let’s have a little look to see how the Samsung R60 may cause a stir amongst other laptops within the market…
Review
The Samsung R60 comes with the everyday essentials and includes an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, which runs at a nice 1.8Ghz. Now you might think that in this day and age it is rather slow for a processor, but with it being a Core 2 Duo this means that it runs at the speed of two processors, so in fact this laptop is actually running at 3.6Ghz.
Coupled with the 2GB of DDR2 RAM, the Samsung R60 laptop is built to withstand everything from the home and office software packages. And if you’re feeling a little more daring then you can even take a decent stab at running most multimedia applications as well.
However, with most laptops, this is spoiled by the lack of dedicated graphics processing built-in. Although the spec says it has a ATI 1250, it does look like Samsung have gone for the cut down budget version as it does not really offer any performance benefits for the avid gamer like myself.
The Gaj-It verdict
Design: 6/10
Usability: 8/10
Features: 6/10
Value: 6.5/10
We say: If you want a powerful business and home laptop then this is the laptop for you. Unfortunately this laptop suffers the same fate as the others of its kind, the lack of graphic cards which makes this a retro gamers laptop…so don’t be expecting to run Age Of Conan on it.
Full Tech Spec
- Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 Processor (1.83 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB Cache)
- 2 GB Memory
- 160 GB Hard Drive
- DVD Super Multi Double Layer
- ATi Radeon integrated graphics
- Wireless Enabled
- 3 No. of USB connections
- 15.4″ Widescreen Display
- Height: 35 mm
- Width: 358 mm
- Depth: 262 mm
- Colour: Black
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Jun 3, 2008 at 12:08:52
This laptop seems to be priced at around £450 and looks like a pretty good all rounder, unless you need something very portable or your a hard gamer it looks as though it will do the job. For somebody who would want to run juicy .net web development tools it would be ideal for me.
Jun 10, 2008 at 14:51:36
It will prob have a decent rating at 3D Multimedia Design work as well.