Shane McGlaun17 June 2009, 7:00 AM
Massive Samsung notebook has huge screen and discrete graphics and unusually powerful speakers for a notebook.
Samsung makes some nice laptops; I am particularly fond of its tiny
netbooks. To balance things out a bit Samsung has announced a new and massive screened notebook called the
R720. The huge machine is far from what I would consider portable with its 17.3-inch screen, but multimedia fans should be happy.
The big screen support HD resolution graphics and your movies should sound as good as they look with enhanced 3D SRS sound. The machine runs an Intel Centrino 2 processor and a discrete ATI Radeon HD 4650 GPU.
The big 17.3-inch screen has a 16:9 aspect ratio and the sound system has 4-watt stereo speakers and a dedicated subwoofer. Hopefully that means that there will be some bass in movies (I like to hear the explosions!) With a screen as large as the R720 sports, there is plenty of room for a suitably large keyboard. In this case, the keyboard is obviously full size -- including separate numeric keypad. The machine will run Windows Vista Home Premium and will launch in the UK in July at an undisclosed price. There's no word yet on Australian pricing or availability.