Samsung R480, R580 and R780 Now Available at Best Buy w/ Blu-Ray
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One of the most striking notebooks from CES 2010 for me was the Samsung R series notebooks which made a splash with an “invisible touchpad”. These wonderful looking and well equipped notebooks are now available at Best Buy at attractive prices; especially considering that the R480 and R580 include Blu-Ray drives.
The three new Samsung notebooks are priced as follows;
- 14″ Samsung R480 with Blu-Ray – $730 – Intel Core i3
- 15″ Samsung R580 with Blu-Ray – $830 – Intel Core i5
- 17″ Samsung R780 w/o Blu-Ray – $930 – Intel Core i5 (online only soon)
The 14″ R480 includes an 8 Cell battery and packs in a 1366×768 resolution as well as a 500GB hard drive. The R580 and R780 both inlcude a more powerful graphics processor, NVIDIA GeForce 310M and GT330M respectively, and the 17″ R780 is able to pull off a 1600 x 900 resolution.
Here’s a video of the Invisible trackpad in action and you can read my impressions of the Invisible trackpad on the Samsung R series in our CES 2010 coverage.
Samsung R 80 Series Specifications:
Samsung R480
- CPU: Intel® Coreâ„¢ i3 Processor
- Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium (64bit)
- Memory: 4GB (DDR3 / 2GB x 2)
- Screen: 14.0†LED HD
- Resolution: 1366 x 768
- Graphics: Intel® GMA 4500MHD
- Optical Drive: Blu-ray
- Speakers: 3 W Stereo Speaker (1.5 W x 2)
- Audio technology: HD Audio
- Web camera: 0.3 MP
- HDMI port
- Hard Drive: 500GB 5400 RPM
- Wireless LAN: 802.11bg/n
- LAN: Gigabit Ethernet
- 5.07 lbs.
Samsung R580
- CPU: Intel® Coreâ„¢ i5 Processor
- Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium (64bit)
- Memory: 4GB (DDR3 / 2GB x 2)
- Screen: 15.6″ LED HD
- Resolution: 1366 x 768
- Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce 310M
- Optical Drive: Blu-ray
- Speakers: 3 W Stereo Speaker (1.5 W x 2)
- Audio technology: HD Audio
- Web camera: 1.3 MP
- HDMI port
- Hard Drive: 500GB 5400 RPM
- Wireless LAN: 802.11bg/n
- LAN: Gigabit Ethernet
- 5.7 lbs.
Samsung R780
- CPU: Intel® Coreâ„¢ i5 Processor
- Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium (64bit)
- Memory: 4 GB (DDR3 / 2GB x 2)
- Display: 17.3″ LED HD+
- Resolution: 1600 x 900
- Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
- Optical Drive: Super Multi Dual Layer
- Speakers: 4 W Stereo Speaker (2 W x 2)
- Audio technology: HD Audio
- Webcam: 1.3 MP
- HDMI port
- Hard Drive: 500GB 5400 RPM
- Wireless LAN: 802.11bg/n
- LAN: Gigabit Ethernet
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
- 6.26 lbs.
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Sites That Link to this Post
- Samsung N210 Netbook comes to BestBuy | Notebooks.com | March 8, 2010
- Samsung R480 Hands On: First Impressions (Video) | Notebooks.com | May 21, 2010
- Samsung R480 Review: Great Keyboard and Blu-Ray | Notebooks.com | September 19, 2010
I'm concerned about a tech writer who sees a laptop with an Arrandale cpu and GMA4500 and doesn't stop to think what's wrong with this picture. So you're telling me they disable the much more capable on-chip graphics and installed yesterdays news?
True, the R480 has the GMA4500, but the R580 has a more powerful NVIDIA GPU. It is odd, but I'm not sure why they made that choice.
I went to Best Buy to see for myself and indeed it had GMA HD like it should. Samsung would have to have blind retarded monkeys with brain damage and dysentery designing their systems to put a GMA4500 with an Arrandale CPU. Anyway it seemed like I nice machine, but the R580 – what a beast, that thing is absolutely stacked for the price.
The Samsung R580 is one of the Mohicans, a warrior who is still beautiful and has energy to spare. Get the entire Samsung R580 Laptop Review at:
http://www.techarena.in/review/32486-samsung-r5…
The Samsung R580 is one of the Mohicans, a warrior who is still beautiful and has energy to spare. Get the entire Samsung R580 Laptop Review at:
http://www.techarena.in/review/32486-samsung-r5…
I have the R480 for a month now and its super fast!!.. the picture quality on blu-ray is just amazing… sure it has the GMA4500 but for the price who wouldnt get it? anywayz, its a good buy for so much… Peace in the Middle East!!!!!
Does anyone know if there are 8 or 12 cell batteries available for these machines? The 6 cell only lasts 1.30 hours if you're lucky on the R780.
I will check on this. May not know til early next week though.
Please anyone know whether this Bleray is DVD writer as well
Yes, you can write to DVD discs with it.
th now and its super fast!!.. the picture quality on blu-ray is just amazing… sure it has the GMA4500 but for the price who wouldnt get it? anywayz, its a good buy for so much… Peace in the