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The X50 is a sleek and silver desktop replacement from Samsung. The X50 packs a 15.4 widescreen into its compact 2.41 kg chassis, but more impressive than that is the screen's resolution. Samsung geared the screen with 1,680 x 1,050 resolution, which offers more workspace than a 19-inch LCD-based PC monitor.

The SamsungX50 is like a runway model at first glance, all good looks and anattractive exterior. But you wonder: when this model opens his orher mouth, will complete sentences come out? With this newSamsung X50 laptop, you should be pleasantly surprised, as it offers more than justsleek beauty.

The X50 packs a 15.4 widescreen into a 5.3 pound (2.41 kg)package, but more impressive than that is the screen'sresolution. Samsunggeared the screen with 1,680 x 1,050 resolution, offering moreworkspace than a 19-inch LCD-based desktop monitor. That makesthe Samsung notebook the perfect laptop for a one-computer family(or individual), if you want near desktop-replacementcapabilities out of a notebook along with the latest inmobility.

You can't achieve this combo of qualities without primetimehardware. The X50 does not disappoint here either. Fornear-desktop computing power, Samsung packed the X50 with thesecond-best Intel Pentium M (2 GHz), 512MB of PC3200 DDRIImemory, and 80 GB of hard drive space. To supply the latest inlaptop mobility, Samsung inserted the Intel Centrino microprocessor chipset. More importantly, this includes the IntelPro/Wireless 2915, which supports nearly all the letters in thewireless alphabet: 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g. Samsung alsomade sure that the new laptop is Bluetooth compatible, which, ifyou've owned past Samsungs, you know is a big improvement.

Does Samsungs "model" new notebook sound too good to be true?Well, it may be. At about $2,616 (£1,489), it fits into theprice range of the latest high-end Centrino-based notebooks. Butat the same time, it lacks some of the fineries of this pricerange. Its graphics card, for instance, is the Mobility RadeonX600 chipset. This doesn't quite make it the laptop of choice forgamers.

Then again, the Samsung X50 offers a fingerprint reader for security. There are also ports galore, for memorycards, FireWire, Type II PC Card, USBs, and Ethernet. Plus,Samsung throws in a multiformat DVD writer. All in all, thelaptop may not be a supermodel of the notebook world, but Iwouldn't throw it off my desk.

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