Samsung launches R30 and R80 series of laptops with a Touch of Color, dose of Blu-ray
By Tim Stevens 
posted January 8th 2010 11:33AM
posted January 8th 2010 11:33AM
If Samsung's latest cadre of netbooks don't have the oomph for your professional mobile computing needs, perhaps you'll find the new R30 and R80 series models more to your liking. The R430 and R530 laptops are 14- and 15.6-inch laptops both relying on Intel's Core 2 Duo T6600 processor, 320GB hard drives, and 4GB of DDR3 memory, and good 'ol GMA 4500MHD graphics. The R480, R580 and R780 models are 14-, 15.6-, and 17-inch, 16:9, LED-backlit models rocking Core i5 430M processors. Storage gets bumped to 500GB on this series, while the larger of the two get GeForce GT graphics as well as Blu-ray drives. All entrants in both series offer 802.11b/g/n wireless and are available with Samsung's "Touch of Color" hues, which will surely earn you some jealous looks in the boardroom. Both R30 models will set you back $670, the R480 is $849, R580 is $949, and the range-topping R780 is, curiously, $20 cheaper: $929. That and the R30 models are available now. The other two R80s arrive in March.
Notebooks definitely needs some color. I'm so sick of the mundane black and gray.
How long did it take for desktops to stop being beige?
God, I'm so sick of seeing T6600 laptops, about 80% of the £600-£800 I see have them and there so basic it's ridiculous. It's making the job of picking a replacement for my 3yr old Inspiron 6400 really hard as it's barley an improvement over it's T7200. Sony is the worst offender imo, I regularly see machines of theirs above £900 using this crap!
@TacticalTimbo
well to be honest until this week there really wasnt anything THAT much better to put in a laptop. now there are core i5 and core i7 chips for you. check it out. even sony has a relatively cheap i7 laptop now.
How come these aren't available anywhere?
Why is red the only color Samsung deems worthy of touching? I can excuse it for a laptop, but how often does a red TV match the decor of the home it's purchased for? Make it black, or give us a choice of other colors Sammy.