The Samsung R60+ 15.4in Notebook
The Samsung R60+ 15.4in Notebook is a great bargain as far as costs go for laptops these days. It is priced at less than £450 (including VAT and delivery). However, the competition for 15.4in screens is pretty tough in terms of design, customization, features as well as prices that match these excellent standards. Consequently, the Samsung R60+ lags behind compared to manufacturers offering 15.4in screens such as Toshiba and HP, for examples.
The exterior and internals look aesthetically pleasing and are a glossy black which is typical of the Samsung style seen on its TVs, monitors, printers, MP3 players, etc… The downside is that one will never be able to avoid the scratches and fingerprints on the lid that are inevitable with regular use.
The larger chassis is amazingly thin and portable with a thickness varying from 31.1mm at the front and 35.8mm at the back rendering it quite sleek for its size. It’s weight isn’t too bad either - at approximately 2.68kg.
Suited especially for general word processing, web surfing and email, the Samsung R60+ makes a good office machine including a 1.4 GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2310 chip accompanied with 1 GB of RAM.
The battery life is approximately 107 minutes and the hard drive is 80GB which, again, is reasonable for the price.
Not only are the ports and connectors are a bit sparse (containing only 3 USB ports available), but they’re also inconveniently located - with two at the rear and one on the left.
It’s 256MB ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 graphics processor doesn’t really measure up to gaming as it only managed to achieve 7 fps (frames per second) in a grueling games test.
The best feature for this budget notebook has to be the 250 GB SATA HDD which is providing a lot of storage and space for plenty of videos, photos and music.
