June 27th, 2009The Samsung R510 – A Pimped Out Budget Laptop
Review
Coming in a sleek black casing this laptop will shine from the moment you pull it out of the box. It’s not until you open the lid and see the two-tone colour that you might think you’ve entered a race track at your local boy racer hangout, but rather than making it out like the laptop looks like a pimped out Nova it pulls it off surprisingly well and offers a sense of class and refinement to what is in all respects a budget laptop.
To top this off it comes with a 15.4? screen and not only do you have a laptop that looks like it has been on an improved version of ‘pimp my laptop’ but it also gives you a display that is a nice halfway between too big and too small.
The full sized keyboard comes with silver-nano bacterial protection which to me gives the keys a pleasantly strokeable finish. This supposedly kills around 99.99% of bacteria (…see never say that I don’t do my research) which will give you piece of mind when the Domestos ads come on the tele whilst you’re on this laptop – just don’t start shouting ‘Die bugs, die’ when you press the keys as that might get you some funny looks, if not a white jacket with never ending sleeves.
Under the bonnet
This laptop comes with a nice Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5750 and runs at around 2Ghz but remember its dual core so times that by 2 and we get the actually clock speed of this laptop and with more and more applications starting to use dual core you will soon be getting this times 2 speed all the time.
Throw in the 4GB of Ram this laptop comes with into the mix and Ta Da…you got one fast machine that will plough through Office applications and even design packages with ease. Plus with the 160GB of hard disk space this laptop proves you can easily store your entire MP3, movie clips while leaving you enough space to do some actual work on it.
For all you travellers out there you will be pleased to read that this laptop will handle around four and a half hours whilst its idle which means that if your tapping away and putting it under heavy strain then this laptop will last around an hour and ten minutes, but if you’re watching movies or listening to movies on the train then this laptop should last you a long time.
Now for the bad news, I suppose all us gamers out there were licking your lips when reading about this laptop and if you did a quote on this before you read up to this point then you will even be more disappointed, as this laptop only comes with a Intel GMA X4500MHD graphics chipset. Although this may be the latest model it is still integrated which means a no no to all those latest games such as Crysis which by all reports will only run at 4.9 frames per second on the lowest specs.
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