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
4 thoughts on “Samsung R60 Review: A Laptop For The Home And Office.”
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.
It will prob have a decent rating at 3D Multimedia Design work as well.
“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.”
I’m surprised that someone that is running a technology review website is this uninformed. Dual processors or dual cores does not mean you are running at the combined speed of both cores or processors. Even factoring out overhead and factoring in perfect multithreaded performance, that would be impossible. Not only are most operating systems not 64 bit, most operating systems can’t make use of multiple cores. In addition, most programs aren’t written to make use of multiple cores or processors. So for multiple processors or cores to be utilized to their fullest, you’d need a 64 bit operating system with multithread support, in addition to running a multi threaded program.
A dual core 2 Ghz system is a 2 Ghz system for most programs and applications. The second processor will never get used or used very seldom.
Fair point but if you read the link below it may help enlighten you.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=130
While XP Home does not support Dual cores altogether, later versions of XP Pro and Vista do support Dual Cores, although it will not use 100% of the second CPU under stressful times it will use the second core to help relieve the strain.
Now with more and more games comming out that support Dual cores as well as software such as 3D packages. Its only a matter of time before items use Dual cores all the time.