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Smasung R20 Notebook: Mixing Power, Price and Portability
The new Samsung R20 is another grand laptop that administers to merge cost and portability that youll absolutely consider a treat. This is a small, lightweight laptop that measures 340x 260x 30mm and weighs 2.4kg --- perfect for a mobile you.

Samsung has been one of the pioneers with it comes to reinvention and upgrading of their products --- and their line of notebooks is no exception. Their newest addition, the Samsung R20 is definitely poised to show the difference.The Samsung R20s built is almost imposing and even opposite compared to other budget laptop computers.

So why buy the Samsung R20? The build quality is excellent and has a screen has a very little flex. Other high-end features include Bacteria Free Silver-Nano Technology on the keyboard leaving it bacteria free and that has an outstanding solid base with keys making typing fast. It has a dual core Intel Core Duo T2250 processor that runs at 1.73GHz with an ATi Radeon Xpress 1250 chipset that supplies graphics and an additional 802.11b/g wireless chip. A reasonable combination of dual core CPU and a 1GB RAM, a generous DVD burner, 160GB Hard Disk Drive gives you a plenty of space for sorting media such as video and music files in a medium sized unit was unbeatable at the price.

Check out its following configuration:
  • Dimensions (WxDxH)34 cm x 26 cm x 3.9 cm
  • Weight 2.4 kg
  • Built-in Devices Wireless LAN aerial
  • Processor Intel T2350 / 1.86 GHz
  • Cache Memory 2 MB - L2 Cache
  • RAM 1 GB (installed) / 4 GB (max) - DDR2 SDRAM - 667 MHz - PC2 5300 ( 2 x 512 MB )
  • Card Reader Yes
  • Hard Drive 120 GB - Serial ATA-150 - 5400 rpm
  • Optical Storage DVD±RW (+R double layer) / DVD-RAM
  • Display 14.1" TFT 1280 x 800 ( WXGA )
  • Graphics ControllerATI Radeon X1250
  • Audio OutputSound card
  • Telecom Fax / modem - 56 Kbps
  • Networking Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
  • Input Device Keyboard, touchpad
  • Power AC 120/230 V
  • Battery Lithium Ion
  • Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium


The 14.1" size monitor is clear and easy to read and an appropriate for a WXGA display. Its large enough on watching DVDs and offers enough space to view documents because of its widescreen and comes with a Super-TFT coating. It also has a Speed-Up manager that provides three options for multitasking with speed mode, silent and normal mode so that the user gets freedom to work.

You can also find an ExpressCard slot, a 6-in-1 card reader and as well as a VGA-out port to be able to connect on an external monitor. Overall, you can seriously multi-task on this notebook and cannot see any significant slow down. The Samsung R20 has a good specification for the price for those on tight budget that wants to have a dual-core processor and a large hard disk. At one time, cheap notebooks exists only when vendors couldnt sell old notebooks unlike today that manufacturers design and build notebooks specifically for the price.

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