Pricing Not Available. The Good High-end look and feel; good keyboard; large touch pad; Intel Wireless Display, Nvidia Optimus graphics switching; very affordable for the features. Mediocre battery life; no Bluetooth; entry-level Nvidia GeForce graphics. Slickly designed and amply featured, the Samsung QX looks and plays the part of a more expensive high-end laptop at a price that's a solid value. Annual power consumption cost. Multimedia multitasking test in seconds Shorter bars indicate better performance.
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It's not a graphics powerhouse, but it offers plenty of oomph for productivity and enough muscle for some light gaming on the side. The notebook's lengthy battery life and strong Wi-Fi performance are also a boon for travelers. However, for the same price as the Sony, Samsung's machine offers a much faster processor, nearly 1.
Overall, the QX is an excellent choice. The Samsung QX features a 2. That's almost 1, points higher than the thin-and-light category average, and points higher than the Dell XPS 14, which has almost identical components but a faster hard drive.
On file transfer tests, the QX's slower hard drive was evident. The notebook copied a 4. However, the QX handled everyday tasks just fine. We experienced smooth performance when watching Hulu videos, streaming Internet radio, viewing Twitter feeds, and juggling multiple browser tabs and open documents. Designed to provide some rendering power but with an emphasis on preserving battery life, the QX mustered a solid 3DMark06 score of 3,, which is more than 1, points higher than the category average.
Gaming performance was just okay. The QX managed 30 fps at its native 1, x resolution during World of Warcraft testing. We were able to push performance up to 60 fps by running in autodetect mode, which shuts down some fancy graphics effects. Far Cry 2 tests told much the same story: At native resolution the QX logged a slow 12 fps, while switching the game to x yielded a slightly better 33 fps.
Though Samsung claims the QX delivers 7 hours of battery life, we were only able to squeeze out 5 hours and 20 minutes on our tests. Still, that's more than an hour and 20 minutes longer than the average thin-and-light. Not really a problem with the device itself, more a problem with Samsung's support site. Overall Review: This is a great laptop for the price. It gets the job done perfectly well no matter the task and is a breeze to use with the great chiclet keyboard and multi-touch trackpad with up to four-finger gesture support.
HD video playback is solid and stutter-free. As I said in the Pros above, it can provide you with a decent gaming experience on the go with all but perhaps the newest high-end games, just don't expect it to be your main gaming rig and replace your desktop PC. It gets the job done, no more, no less, and cannot be beat for the price. Sold by: Newegg Shipped by Newegg. This item is currently out of stock and it may or may not be restocked.
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