Samsung R700 17in Laptop Is HDTV-Friendly December 21, 2007
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Samsung has announced a skinny 17in laptop designed to be used easily with your skinny HDTV.
The forthcoming R700 is the latest in the company's Aura range and along with its slinky glossy black looks, it sports an HDMI port so that you can easily attach it to your HDTV - something that's not all that common now but will become a lot more so in 2008. No more messing with DVI-to-HDMI-to-Component cable adapter nonsense.
The 17in display is capable of a 1440 x 900 resolution, memory ranges from 512MB to 4GB, hard drives run to 250GB and the graphics are handled by a decent GeForce 8400 GS chip. There’s an in-built 1.3MP camera for videoconferencing with work when you’re pretending to work from home and a dual-layer DVD burner.
There are a generous 4 USB ports and an always useful 7-in-1 card reader. No news on what chips are powering this thing but it runs Vista Premium and prices will start at around £500-600 when it lands in February.-Martin Lynch
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Yay!
A HDMI cable with only a regular DVD drive. How useful.
Why is this news? Ive got a laptop with HDMI and its been out for over 6 months now... Oh and mine had a HD-DVD player so its actually useful for playing some content as well. I guess if it didnt you could play pirated stuff on it.
Heres a link to it: http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_5920H_Gemstone_Laptop_LX.AN60X.001/version.asp