Like
Acer,and fellow
"strong" Blu-ray supporter LG, Samsung is showing the hi-def crowd how to mix it up by opening their
Blu-ray love affair to the HD DVD camp. Here we have their M55 -- formerly billed as the "world's thinnest and lightest 17-inch widescreen" at 30.5 ~ 34.4-mm thick and 2.99-kg -- only now packing some swank HD DVD action along with an apparent pixel increase to 1920x1200. Just to run down the rest of the specs on this: you get a glossy 17-inch display, 256MB GeForce 7600 Go graphics, up to 120GB of SATA disk, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, a wide range of in and outs including HDMI and S/PDIF, and suite of SRS audio features all powered by an Intel T2500 Core Duo proc. No drop date but they should pull about €3,000/$3,810 -- yeah, we know. And yes, gentle readers, there
is a woman in that photo, now please try to comment on the laptop, mkay? We don't want to get rough, see.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ifjake @ Sep 28th 2006 9:37AM
wow that is one HOT ... laptop.
Matt Brundage @ Sep 28th 2006 9:38AM
What, there's a laptop in that picture?
mychang @ Sep 28th 2006 9:39AM
not to derail the topic or anything, but search for "drop" and see how many times a day it's used
Ladderless @ Sep 28th 2006 9:43AM
OK... I'll ignore that woman and focus on the lapto...
What the heck kind of animal is that on the video in the background?
...Is that one of their record-breaking HDTV's?
Oops!
...I like the shag carpet on the floor.
plittle @ Sep 28th 2006 10:22AM
It's Ice Age [1] playing in the background.
Justin @ Sep 28th 2006 9:46AM
that is one hottie... of course, i'm referring to the laptop.
Mark @ Sep 28th 2006 9:52AM
That's one HUGE.....HD DVD disk that person is holding.......:)
Chris @ Sep 28th 2006 9:57AM
With a girl like that in the picture, who really cares what she is promoting. I mean seriously.
And, judging from the last pic in the link, she's got some powerful tricep muscles.
senshikaze @ Sep 28th 2006 10:34AM
If she'd smile at me like that, I'd buy the lappy ^_^
giveaphuk @ Sep 28th 2006 10:48AM
ohh there is somthing about a woman holding a cd that drives me nuts enough to whip out the credit card & order a pimped up laptop! :)
strider_mt2k @ Sep 28th 2006 10:54AM
Doesn't she have to be getting off to school or something?
George Bush @ Sep 28th 2006 11:06AM
No. She's doesn't need to get to school. She needs to get to my bedroom.
Nova @ Sep 28th 2006 11:22AM
nice ;) but so bad that samsung's notebooks are not available in north america. sooo bad because they make the exact notebook that I need and I didn't saw any other company that offer to choose a non-glossy or glossy screen.
nimro @ Sep 28th 2006 2:23PM
Apple offer the choice of glossy or not in the Macbook Pro line, if that helps...
major @ Sep 28th 2006 11:32AM
I feel obligated to say that I don't need Engadget reminding me that, yes, that is a woman in the photo as it's quite obvious that's what that is.
Just how nerdy do they think we are?
adam @ Sep 28th 2006 11:38AM
BABABOEY!! Damn get that girl on the sybian!!
SL @ Sep 28th 2006 12:00PM
come on man. if you go to Korea there are far more hotter girls than her.
JeremyS @ Sep 28th 2006 12:33PM
For more pics of this portable (who are you kidding, you want more of this woman) go to:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/index.php
JeremyS @ Sep 28th 2006 12:33PM
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-12492-M55+HD-DVD%2C+the+Samsung+HD+notebooks.html
Ckeck out the last 2 pics; off to the left there is a Pc but the top angles down.
Dave @ Sep 28th 2006 12:45PM
Something on me is blue alright. And it ain't the blue-ray.
Miguel @ Sep 28th 2006 4:26PM
Yeah, it's slim, sexy and powerful, but there's something about the proportions of the base. Stretch that keyboard out and give me a proper ten-key number pad like HP does on its 17" Pavillion models. And yet it still looks like in order to get the model so slim, they basically stretched the hardware horizontally instead of stacking it. That's too much deadspace.
Gotta have a styl factor in your notebook lineup. Samsung don't got it.
Dr Chaos @ Sep 28th 2006 6:01PM
oooh sprechen ze sexy.....the laptop i mean....yes....laptop
ctakim @ Sep 29th 2006 1:07AM
Awesome! and the laptop is not bad either!
ScooterJP @ Sep 29th 2006 7:09AM
sure, I'd like to lie on the shag and push its buttons, but I don't wanna catch a virus. Have to keep a mac on my lap instead.
Embassy @ Sep 29th 2006 8:24AM
wow..thats a nice set off lips on that...HD-DVD... disc...drive..?
Mikey @ Aug 23rd 2007 8:55PM
Hey, I know there is a girl there too and she is beautiful! Maybe if they would put her on the screen of the laptop, I would be more interested.