If Samsung's QX notebook is the MacBook Pro and the SF is a shark, we're calling this one the Range Rover. It's a notebook with grunt.
The Samsung guys joked to us that this was the Range Rover notebook -- it has more masculine styling than the QX series, and has the gruntiest specs of the whole range.
For a start, the 15" models have a rather ridiculous 2GB of graphics memory, on the already very fast NVIDIA GT420M graphics chip. This will allow just about any game to be played on medium to high settings (though Crysis may still struggle a bit -- it will be very interesting to see whether it can cope on a 2GB variant of the GT420M.)
There's also a beefy quad-core Intel Core i7 in the 15" models, running at 1.6GHz per core, or up to 2.8GHz in single core "Turbo mode". This will, of course, plough through any general computing tasks you throw at it with ease -- and Core i7 chips have the benefit of being more energy efficient than the cheaper Core i5 chips.
The top of the line 15" model, the RF710, packs a BluRay burner and 6GB RAM too, while the other models have the standard DVD burner and 4GB RAM.
The 17" model oddly doesn’t have Core i7 -- it only has Core i5 at 2.53GHz, though these are of course still very fast chips. It comes with 6GB RAM and a whopping 1TB hard disk. It has the lower-end NVIDIA GT330M graphics chip with 1GB graphics. It's a mid-range graphics chip that should handle most games at medium settings.
