Samsung P580 business laptop hands-on

Boy, Samsung's been keeping us busy today -- in addition to the Q330 and Q530, the company was also showing the P580 business laptop at the British Museum today. The particular unit we played with had a vibrant 15.6-inch 1,366 x 768 matte screen, although a higher resolution and greater viewing angle would've made it a prettier package. To our further disappointment, the keyboard was nowhere as good as the Q-series' chiclet offering -- we kept pressing neighboring keys by accident, and the spacebar's right-hand side often failed to pick up our input. An isolated issue? Only time will tell -- you guys might have better luck when this bad boy eventually arrives in the stores.

Samsung P580 business laptop hands-on

[walter164 Posted May 11th 2010 10:04PM]

...AND THATS THE DEAL BRAKER...

[SolidSnake Posted May 11th 2010 10:07PM]

@walter164
Bracker? I guess thats what happens when you use caps all the time...
Spelling goes out the window.

[TruUnknowN Posted May 11th 2010 10:12PM]

Breaker? I guess this is what happens when you first use caps and then try to correct someone.. Irony out the window. :P

[walter164 Posted May 11th 2010 10:21PM]

@SolidSnake FAIL...YES I SAID THIS ALL IN CAPS...AND YES ITS BREAKER....

[Aguiluz Posted May 11th 2010 10:08PM]

"the spacebar's right-hand side often failed to pick up our input"

Purchase-breaker. The space bar is the most used key in my opinion and I would go nutso if I have to check and check if I hit the key and registered a press.

[JakeInDC Posted May 11th 2010 10:10PM]

yawn

[Ruben Posted May 11th 2010 10:16PM]

How generic looking. I know its a business laptop, but at least HP and Dell are able to spark some interest with their business laptop designs, especially HP.

[toph1307 Posted May 11th 2010 10:30PM]

The real killer is the numerical pad on the side. When PC makers learn to stop putting them on laptops, they'll finally have more aesthetic machines and better and more useable keyboards

[higherdestiny Posted May 11th 2010 10:36PM]

@toph1307

*idea* - A slide out numeric keypad that extends from the right side of the laptop. Seriously. If someone uses that idea, I want royalties.

[formetopoopon Posted May 12th 2010 10:36AM]

@higherdestiny
You can't possibly be arguing that they should ditch the keypad on a BUSINESS laptop to make it look prettier..../facepalm

Go get a Dell Inspiron and you can pick what color you want it to be.

[higherdestiny Posted May 11th 2010 10:34PM]

Looks quite similar to the Dell E4300.

[SDreamer Posted May 11th 2010 10:57PM]

Uh 1366 x 768 is the norm for 15.6" isn't it? I mean, yeah I wouldn't settle for that resolution, but it kinda is the norm for that size?

[VTR Posted May 12th 2010 11:35AM]

@SDreamer
Yeah it's a norm in consumer laptops, but this isn't one of them. Or at least it shouldn't be. But maybe companies are really trying to save on anything, and one easy way to save is switch from proper Thinkpads to these implementations...

[Raistlin Posted May 12th 2010 10:00AM]

Forget the laptop, I like that wallpaper. I wonder how I can find it?