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Posted 1 October 2010
Samsung NP-R530-JB01UK Laptop Core i3, 3GB ram, 320GB hard drive £403 @ Comet
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Good price for a Core i3 laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium, 3GB ram and 320GB hard drive. Quidco cashback further 3% off. Use code 6400 for discount to £403.
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sorted byProcessor Intel® Core™ i3 Dual Core (330M, 3MB Cache, 2.13 GHz)
Screen 15.6" (Samsung SuperBright Gloss LCD TFT, 1366 x 768 HD)
Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium Edition
RAM 3GB (DDR3 1066MHZ)
Hard Drive 320GB
Optical Drive DVD Rewriter (Records DVDs 8x & CDs 24x & Dual Layer Super Multi)
Graphics Integrated (Intel® GMA X4500MHD Graphics with up to 1277MB Shared Memory)
Wireless LAN Wireless (WIFI LINK A,B,G,N Includes MIMO)
Network Card 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet
Integrated Webcam Integrated Webcam
Card Reader 3-in-1 card reader (SD/SDHC,MMC)
USB Ports 3x USB 2.0 ports
Speakers Intergrated Stereo Speakers
VGA Port 1 External VGA Port
Kensington Lock Kensington lock slot
Charge Time 2.5 Hours
HDMI 1 HDMI Connector
Warranty 12 Months Samsung Collect & Return Warranty
Battery Life 2-3 Hours (up to 3 hours with power management)
Weight 2-3 Kg (This Model 2.5 Kg)
Finger Print Reader No
when you click 'collect from store'
you get to a page called 'basket' the box for the code is on the next line
Depends - for a laptop battery it's average, for some other things it's pretty good . . .
About the laptop. It is pretty quick, not massively faster than my previous (very unreliable) Sony Vaio AR with C2D, but a lot faster to boot up. The build quality is good for a laptop that at the same time is trying to be lightweight. It's seems on a par with most of the run of the mill Acers, Dells, Toshibas, but not as sturdy as the HP G62. The red casing to the lid is not nearly as garish or bright as it appears in photos, it is one thing I thought I wouldn't like but in the flesh it has turned out to be one of the best things about it. Battery life is about 3 hrs for light browsing. Videos seem to play well.
Unfortunately though I'm pretty disappointed with the R530 overall for three reasons. Firstly the sound is abysmal, far too quiet. Secondly the touchpad is poor, surface feels cheap, and the scrolling is very hard to control. Most importantly for me though, the screen has a very small optimal viewing angle, if you don't look at the screen from just the right angle the display bleaches out and has little colour or contrast. I blamed the display instore on the harsh overhead lights, but unfortunately it's just as bad at home. I sort of regret buying it because the screen, sound and touchpad aren't as good as I'd expected.
I think that must be a typo by Comet; as the i3 comes with GMA (5700MHD) graphics that are significantly better than the x4500MHD.
I know it affects how much memory can be addressed, but if this comes with 3GB and I don't intend to upgrade that, would there be much other difference?
TO be honest I only use mine for internet, office now and then and music.
Don't need 64-bit machine....wouldn't make any difference to me.
Can anyone advise if it's worth the extra money?
Ive just tried to order one of these for collection, and I dont see anywhere to enter the 6400 code to bring the price down?
Do I have to quote the code in store?
HM55 chipset if that helps..?
integrated, but a bit better
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Where did you reserve this model?
None as 32bit Os can address upto around 4gb but you wont see all that but with 3gb its no issue as all of that will show up, why stupid comments about it being only 32bit are being posted is totally beyond me as the people making these posts wouldnt know the difference between 32 and 64bit OS's anyway if they had under 3gb of memory and it certainly wont affect performance in everyday home use on a normal laptop or desktop
A 32 bit processor is faster than a 64 bit processor, 64 bit processors are very commonly used that you can find it easily in any home pc but the main difference is the hardware you are having on your machine. For 32 bits there isn’t any need of any wide main bus to carry 32 bits at a time but for 64 bits its must that you should have a wider bus to carry 64bits.
The main difference between a 32 bit and 64 is that 32 bit system has 4gb(gigabytes) of space for addressing means that the 32 bit system has a limit of 4GB RAM to process data where as the 64 bit operating system has 2^64 bits of space to address and supports 16 hexabytes of RAM to process data. or 128gb for the people that made the posts about x64 OS's
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Agreed, in most cases I actually use the x86 version of an OS anyway because x64 is only really meant for powerhouses and in the case of Windows the x64 version can sometimes be a real pain to deal with in terms of compatibility and non-system user acces rights.
Well said i use x86 on my laptop as there's no need for x64 as it doesn't have 4gb of memory even though the CPU is capable but on my i5 desktop i use x64 as it has 8gb of memory and the x86 couldn't address it.
What i cant understand is why comments like that are made in the first place, this is a decent spec machine and the fact it has x86 windows on it means nothing i think the OEM would know what OS to put on there machines and as there's no reason to use x64 that's why they haven't and there would of been no extra cost. When you buy a retail copy of windows it comes with all versions meaning x86 and x64 and all versions of windows so there's no reason that you cant load x64 on and use the product key to activate the x64 version as its alright by Microsoft if you own the discs, you can choose either x86 or x64.
However if for any reason the laptop (under warranty) fails, and you have to deal with Samsung Customer Services be warned they are abysmal.
wouldnt it be comet we deal with?
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