by Anne Davey

Created on: March 21, 2008   Last Updated: March 22, 2008

I recently bought this Samsung Q45 LXD T7100 laptop for GBP749 ($1500) from Amazon. It has an Intel Core 2 Duo chip and a 1.8Ghz processor with a 12.1 inch TFT. Delivery was quick and ordering was easy (as I usually find with amazon) - this laptop arrived ready to go - I just switched it on!
It looks great, is very lightweight and has a lot of welly under the boot!

It has an Intel Centrino Duo processor and 2GB ram which I think you need if you are going to run Vista.

It has a 160 GB hard drive which seems plenty big enough to me!

It also comes with a multiformat DVD burner so even if you run out on your 160 GB you can always store to DVD. If you want to access a flash card you can just plug yours in and go - it is compatible apparently with SD, MMC MS, MS PRO and XD, but I only have SD which works great, but I obviously can't comment personally on the others. You don't need to load a driver or anything.

The manufacturer says that this has Silver Nano Technology which means they have apparently sprinkled nano-sized silver ion powder on the keyboard and palm-rest and this will ensure your system will remain completely bacteria free. I can't say until I read that I ever worried about bacteria in my system , but it's good to know there will not be any!

One other feature of this laptop is a 1.3 Mega Pixel Digital Motion Camera to use for video-conferencing or live messaging. This is the first time I have had a built in camera in a laptop and it is so much easier than having to plug in a separate one. so far so good with it - it works well, and the picture quality is the best I've used anyway.

This lap top also has something called High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) which apparently is a new form of mobile broadband that is capable of transmitting data at high speeds. The manufacturers reckon that this gismo improves downlink capacity, and so removes a potential bottleneck, and they sell HSDPA as something that allows you to enjoy large-scale multimedia downloads, such as DVD-quality movies and interactive multimedia games, with high-speed wireless Internet access comparable to speeds of fixed-line ADSL. I have BT broadband at home (which is ASDL) and it is supposed to deliver up to 8MB though it never does, and I don't really think of it as mega-fast, but it's OK! All I can say about this HSDPA is that the new laptop downloads stuff about twenty times faster than my desktop (poor old soul) so in that sense it lives up to its hype, this HSDPA thing, and my son's

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