Samsung’s Budget/Performance Laptops

March 5, 2010 · Print This Article

Though some of them have been kicking around Best Buy’s website for a few weeks, Samsung R80 series of high-end, moderate priced laptops prepare their formal debut that weekend when they hit Best Buy stores across the country. To celebrate, they had a meet-the-press party at the Samsung Experience product gallery in Manhattan yesterday evening.

Samsung’s first serious foray into the retail US laptop market, the three R80 series models show just how far sub-$1000 lappies have come. At $729, the 14-inch R480 model comes

equipped with a Blu-ray drives that output perfect 1080p video to an LCD television during the demo, using its built in-HDMI port. All that comes courtesy of Intel’s new Core i3-330M Processor and integrated GMA 4500 MHD. Yes, integrated graphics. Finally, after broken promises in past chipsets, it looks as whether Intel’s built-in pixel-crunchers can finally handle HD fluidly.

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