I just got this thing and I have to tell you I am very disappointed in it. The graphics are absolutely horrible. My 6 year old Sony Vaio with a 10" display had better quality picture than the Samsung. Watching online videos from Hulu and [...] are visibly poorer quality than any computer I've ever used. Images from my 22MP camera even look grainy on the screen as do images on webpages. I've checked my display settings and they're all at optimum.
Also, Samsung boasts its large speakers but their performance is even worse than the display's. Absolutely no bass response whatsoever. Volume is VERY weak even at full blast, which is distorted. Plugging in headphones isn't much better as far as volume, although bass did respond better. I had to buy an external amplifier to boost the signal to the headphones to get any decent volume. Again, my old Sony outperformed the Samsung in this area as well.
For over $600 I think you could do a LOT better if you have any intentions of watching videos, listening to music, or looking at pictures (and who doesn't do any of those?)
I'm also very disappointed with Amazon on the pricing on this thing. I put it in my cart on a Sunday night and didn't check out until Monday morning. By then the price jumped by $50 and they wouldn't honor the original price so I canceled the order before submitting it. Then before the week was up it had dropped again by $35 taking it back almost to where it started. Imagine how upset I would have been if I had bought it at the inflated price just to have it drop again 3 days later!
I can't speak for anything else on the computer as I've had it less than 24 hours. I have already had one full-on crash while installing external devices but that could just be a Windows thing. I also have a Samsung TV and Blu-ray player and I'm really happy with those but I have to admit I'm giving serious thought to sending this laptop back to Amazon.
You've been warned.Get more detail about Samsung R530 15.6-Inch Laptop (Red).
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