It's 2:21AM in Hong Kong (so English+grammar might suck), and it's school tmr for me...(yes, STILL)
Anyways, I bought my Samsung X50 on May 22nd with a price of HKD $16500. This is rougly...$2120USD...
The specs are as followed:
Intel Pentium M 1.73 ghz (2MB L2 cache, Intel 915PM chipset)
1GB DDRII 400MHz RAM
60GB 5400RPM Hard Drive
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
15.4" WXGA High Bright Screen
ATI Mobility Radeon X600 128 MB graphics
DVD+-Rewritable Driver
What makes this laptop special is that most of the parts were made from Samsung. So, the whole laptop shell is pretty unique, and for a "thin and light" laptop, with desktop replacement features, it is super light. With batteries, it weighs 5.28lbs, or 2.4kg. Don't forget, it's a 15.4 Widescreen 1280 X 800 resolution screen.
It also uses Samsung's superbright screen, much like Sony's Xbrite. (Even Sony's Japanese PSP version uses Samsung's LCD) So the brightness is great. If it is too bright for you, you can always adjust it with the full sized keyboard...
Speaking of the keyboard, it is very nice. I have a medium sized hands, but yet, the keyboard is so comfortable to use, it fits everyone's hands. So for people with big hands, don't worry, it fights you perfectly. It's also a full sized keyboard, with the "Fn" key that acts like a "shift" key...
How to explain it? (Brain dead :P) When you hold shift, and hit a key, that letter will be uppercased. The FN key has a similar concept, so if you want to increase the speakers volume, you just hold the FN key, and hit the keyboard that increases the volume.
Yeah, with that said, a little downside is that it doesn't have it's OWN volume control key, instead it uses the "FN" key...well you'll get use to it.
The touchpad is great. You can have an option to add a finger print security between the left and right click button below the touchpad. (Of course, you need to add more money), but if not, you'll have the touchpad lock.
Speakers are located at the FRONT of the laptop, left and right of the touchpad, and the speaker quality is pretty good. Of course, you can have insert your favorite headphone to the headphone jack located INFRONT of the laptop. It also includes a microphone jack, located right next to the headphone jack.
I only managed to play WoW, but I changed all my settings to max, and widescreen mode...honestly speaking, the Mobility X600 is SLIGHTLY better than my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro...my eyes just can't 100% tell, but I can feel that X600 is a bit SMOOTHER...(only 3Dmarks can tell)
The wireless connectivity is very good! I successfully stole someone's router point somewhere in my apartment with a connectivity signal of 3 out of 5. (5 being max) So the network card with this laptop is excellent...
This laptop comes with it's OWN OS. Sorta...
Samsung is kind enough to add a feature called AV NOW. This feature is enabled when Windows is in shut down mode. Next to the power button, theres a button called AV NOW, and you hit it, and the computer turns on and the AV NOW softwares comes up. What it does is that it can play music (CD), photos, and plays DVDs WITHOUT booting Windows...wow what a great feature!!!
Although I didn't test the photo and DVD section myself, the music on the go was fantastic....no need to boot windows.
Of course, theres an option where you can exit the AV NOW, and launch Windows afterwards...
Features I have yet to figure out:
How good X600 is with Half Life 2 and Counter Strike Source
The battery life...although it should be around 5.5 - 6 hours...
DDRII Ram's power..
yeah, anything I've missed it's not my fault...I really need to go to bed...:P
I highly recommend this laptop if you're an on the go person because of it's lightweight and long battery life, but also demands power.
see yaz.
Anyways, I bought my Samsung X50 on May 22nd with a price of HKD $16500. This is rougly...$2120USD...
The specs are as followed:
Intel Pentium M 1.73 ghz (2MB L2 cache, Intel 915PM chipset)
1GB DDRII 400MHz RAM
60GB 5400RPM Hard Drive
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
15.4" WXGA High Bright Screen
ATI Mobility Radeon X600 128 MB graphics
DVD+-Rewritable Driver
What makes this laptop special is that most of the parts were made from Samsung. So, the whole laptop shell is pretty unique, and for a "thin and light" laptop, with desktop replacement features, it is super light. With batteries, it weighs 5.28lbs, or 2.4kg. Don't forget, it's a 15.4 Widescreen 1280 X 800 resolution screen.
It also uses Samsung's superbright screen, much like Sony's Xbrite. (Even Sony's Japanese PSP version uses Samsung's LCD) So the brightness is great. If it is too bright for you, you can always adjust it with the full sized keyboard...
Speaking of the keyboard, it is very nice. I have a medium sized hands, but yet, the keyboard is so comfortable to use, it fits everyone's hands. So for people with big hands, don't worry, it fights you perfectly. It's also a full sized keyboard, with the "Fn" key that acts like a "shift" key...
How to explain it? (Brain dead :P) When you hold shift, and hit a key, that letter will be uppercased. The FN key has a similar concept, so if you want to increase the speakers volume, you just hold the FN key, and hit the keyboard that increases the volume.
Yeah, with that said, a little downside is that it doesn't have it's OWN volume control key, instead it uses the "FN" key...well you'll get use to it.
The touchpad is great. You can have an option to add a finger print security between the left and right click button below the touchpad. (Of course, you need to add more money), but if not, you'll have the touchpad lock.
Speakers are located at the FRONT of the laptop, left and right of the touchpad, and the speaker quality is pretty good. Of course, you can have insert your favorite headphone to the headphone jack located INFRONT of the laptop. It also includes a microphone jack, located right next to the headphone jack.
I only managed to play WoW, but I changed all my settings to max, and widescreen mode...honestly speaking, the Mobility X600 is SLIGHTLY better than my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro...my eyes just can't 100% tell, but I can feel that X600 is a bit SMOOTHER...(only 3Dmarks can tell)
The wireless connectivity is very good! I successfully stole someone's router point somewhere in my apartment with a connectivity signal of 3 out of 5. (5 being max) So the network card with this laptop is excellent...
This laptop comes with it's OWN OS. Sorta...
Samsung is kind enough to add a feature called AV NOW. This feature is enabled when Windows is in shut down mode. Next to the power button, theres a button called AV NOW, and you hit it, and the computer turns on and the AV NOW softwares comes up. What it does is that it can play music (CD), photos, and plays DVDs WITHOUT booting Windows...wow what a great feature!!!
Although I didn't test the photo and DVD section myself, the music on the go was fantastic....no need to boot windows.
Of course, theres an option where you can exit the AV NOW, and launch Windows afterwards...
Features I have yet to figure out:
How good X600 is with Half Life 2 and Counter Strike Source
The battery life...although it should be around 5.5 - 6 hours...
DDRII Ram's power..
yeah, anything I've missed it's not my fault...I really need to go to bed...:P
I highly recommend this laptop if you're an on the go person because of it's lightweight and long battery life, but also demands power.
see yaz.
( I am dying for it. Thanks for your review, dreamer2go. I hope you can get some pix up (try to compare the width with something else, because we can tell much more about it.)
