It looks like Samsung's jumping on the 17" multimedia notebook bandwagon. Today brings fresh word of the Samsung R700 laptop, and we can't help but feel it sounds a little familiar. There's definitely a pattern developing around the 17" laptop scene, and it goes a little something like this;
You've got a 1440x900 17" display designed for HD playback, with an HDMI interface to connect to your HDTV (hopefully larger than 17"), an Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS graphics card (8400 GT in the "masthead version"), built-in 1.3 megapixel camera, and read-write CD/DVD player. It is not, as yet, upgradeable to HD DVD or Blu-Ray, as the new HP laptop SKUs are, but that's okay. Baby steps, Samsung. Baby steps.
The wild thing is it looks like Samsung's going to let the R700 go for under $1000, which is pretty damn good, and will make your SquareTrade laptop warranty pretty damn easy on the wallet, too (it even opens up the Accidental Damage coverage option). On the other hand, they're keeping suspiciously mum on what kind of processor the R700 runs on, so it's vaguely possible the real cost-saving factor with turn out to be recycled Pentium Pro chips. Sorry, but we don't like the environment that much.
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