rOne 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.