The Samsung R610 is one of Samsung’s very first offerings for the American marketplace, and it makes an interesting statement. For a 16” laptop, it is relatively thin and light, measuring 1.25” at its thinnest point and weighing only 6lbs with a instead stylish design. At the same time, with a instead average Intel T5800 2.0GHz, 3GB RAM, a 250GB HDD and 512MB NVidia GeForce 9200M GS, it's lacking in features and performance that numerous other 16 inchers have. Read on to see if the R610 has what must be done to compete in the crowded 16-inch multimedia laptop computer market.
The black glossy lid emblazoned with a little and centered silver Samsung logo is classy. If you're able to maintain the fingerprints off of it, it lends an attractive air to the laptop too. A black trim surrounds the display and hides the integrated webcam nearly totally. At the bottom of the display you will see a fairly muted Samsung logo near the even much more subdued model amount – Samsung has clearly gone to lengths to maintain the look smooth and unmarred by too many shining logos or blinking lights. To that end, the only light above the keyboard is really a small blue light on the power button, that is actually housed with a two speaker grills. The black edges proceed to surround the keyboard but bleed into a deep garnet as they approach the far end from the wristrest, which is a nice impact. The keyboard itself is black with standard white lettering, and the touchpad is really a typical looking black square bordered in silver. Along the side edges there are a few dull port markings and in the front you will discover the expected group of blue and green status lights. General, a sleek, but stylish impact pulled off instead nicely.
When 16-inch laptops very first started to appear with their 16:9 ratio screens, many of them were bulky versions reminiscent of days yore. Nowadays competitive versions from the likes of Dell, HP, and Lenovo all weigh in the 6 lb range as the R610 does, but do it measuring up to half an inch less. While it does seem a bit bulky whenever you wrap your hands around it, or if you sat it next to a MacBook or Lenovo IdeaPad Y650, Samsung was effective in keeping the weight down to only 6.2 lb so that it is not too cumbersome to tote.
The keyboard is full sized and, much to our joy after recently reviewing the keyboard-impaired IdeaPad Y650, even boasts a full numeric keypad. It looks like a few of the keys are just a tad smaller than they needed to be to make this fit, but no usual culprits – backspace, shift, tab – are shrunken at all, so maybe it is just in our mind’s eye. The R610 conveniently manages to sneak in a second function key above the right arrow to go along with the one about the left side of the keyboard, but it is not ideal, as the home/end and pgup/pgdn keys share space with the amount pad. Whilst it’s only nitpicking to complain concerning the size and placement of any keys, then there is virtually no flex anywhere, the overall feedback on the keyboard might be nicer. The touchpad is comfortable but does not support multi touch functions, and also the buttons, whilst easily pressed, are a small on the noisy side.
With a 1366x768 resolution, the R610 is set for widescreen viewing but a far cry from the 1920x1080 found on numerous other 16” laptops. Resolution aside, the display high quality is fine. The LCD is plenty bright, and also the horizontal viewing angles are good, although the vertical viewing angles could be a small much better. The screen is glossy which goes along well using the overall glossy look from the laptop, and improves the color quality so long as the brightness is high sufficient to counter the glare.
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