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I have had this laptop for about a year now and i am quite happy with it. When i purchased this laptop it came with vista home premium, a pentium dual core and one gb of ram. As this has a core 2... more

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for Samsung R40 LWD 5500

Rating Summary based on 5 reviews

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  • Comfort & Portability
  • Ease of use
  • Instruction manual
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  • Manufacturer Support
  		• 4.3
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  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 2 eeyore220376

    Member since 25/01/2006

    Reviews written: 26

    5 Stars Speedy and Easy. 17/01/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Nice and fast, wifi built in, beautiful screen

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Forced to allocate memory for backing up

    I purchased this laptop just over a year ago from Tesco Direct for about £600 and have been happily using it since. My main reason for the purchase was that we have a young child and it makes it difficult for my wife to use the computer (due to its location) during the day. We use the computer mainly for web access, sending e-mail, for computer programming and creating DVDs from digital video. The Samsung R40 Windows Vista laptop that I have has an Intel Core2 DUO 1.86GHZ processor and 2 Gigabytes of memory (as opposed to the stated 512mb) with a 120gig hard disk and ultra speed dvd writer ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
    3 Stars Quick review of Samsung R40 LWD 5500 - Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66 GHz - 15.4\ by Level 2 holdfast 07/08/2007
    Bought from Tesco, pretty good performance. Not a bad introduction to Windows Vista. Have it connected to home Network and stopped useing my PC
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    pearbo

    4 Stars Good starter laptop 16/08/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Stylish and fast

    Disadvantages Disadvantages onboard graphics

    I have had this laptop for about a year now and i am quite happy with it. When i purchased this laptop it came with vista home premium, a pentium dual core and one gb of ram. As this has a core 2 duo this will improve its performance quite a lot. However the one gb of ram is simply not enough for a vista machine, not the laptops fault just vista high requirements. Which is why i upgraded quite fast, the max ram for this laptop being 2gb, dd2 5300 or 4200. My laptop has an 80gb hard drive which vista takes up about 15gb, frankly this isn't really enough and this was quite easy to fill. So i ... more
  • 32 of 36 Ciao users found the following review helpful
    3 Stars Quick review of Samsung R40 Plus LWM 440 - C 440 1.73 GHz - 15.4\ by Level 1 cdwarrilow 17/08/2008
    This Laptop is basically a good machine, it does everything competently which is all I ask of it. Looks good, has a reasonable battery life. It has built in speakers and wireless. I am writing this review with it. It has never let me down or crashed or frozen unlike the more expensive higher spec. but diferent make laptop I had before it which did all three. I cannot say it is good as it is dragged / slowed down by windows vista which in my opinion is an overly complicated resource hogging operating system. I think this machine would benefit ... more
  • 0 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Katie2468

    5 Stars Can be bought cheaper 20/03/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Lovely bright screen if you like the glass-effect

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None yet but only had two days

    Silly me, went shopping at Tesco in Borehamwood and happened by the laptops. On looking at the competition, I bought one of these and it was £499.95 and it has 120 gb hard drive and 2gb ram. Also has Vista Home Premium already installed (unlike the quoted Win XP). Even on the Tesco website it costs £650, so I think that's quite a good deal. I have another laptop a Toshiba Qosmio G20-110, 17 inch screen and when trying to set up the network, inadvertently swapped over the main internet settings from the Qosmio onto the Samsung, so now, unlike the Qosmio, it is on a wireless network but I'm ... more

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for Samsung R40 LWD 5500

Product Details

Product Description Samsung R40 LWD 5500 - 15.4" - Core 2 Duo T5500 - Win XP Pro - 1 GB RAM - 100 GB HDD, Samsung R40 LWD 430 - 15.4" - C 430 - Win XP Home - 512 MB RAM - 80 GB HDD, Samsung R40 LWD T2060 - 15.4" - P T2060 - Win XP MCE - 1 GB RAM - 80 GB HDD, Samsung R40 Plus 15.4" - Core 2 Duo T5300 - Win XP Pro - 1 GB RAM - 120 GB HDD
System Type Notebook
Operating System Win XP Pro, Win XP Home, Vista Home Premium, Win XP MCE, Vista Home Basic
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 / 1.66 GHz / 2 MB Cache, Intel Celeron 430 / 1.73 GHz, Intel Core Duo T2300E / 1.6 GHz / 2 MB Cache, Intel Core Duo T2050 / 1.6 GHz / 2 MB Cache, Intel Core Solo U1400 / 1.2 GHz ULV / 2 MB Cache, Intel Pentium T2060 / 1.66 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo T5300 / 1.73 GHz / 2 MB Cache, Intel Pentium T2130 / 1.86 GHz / 1 MB Cache, Intel Celeron 440 / 1.73 GHz / 1 MB Cache
Memory 1 GB DDR2, 512 MB DDR2, 1.25 GB DDR2

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