Samsung Q40-Pro

Notebook Specifications

Reviews for the Samsung Q40-Pro

90% Samsung Q40T002 Laptop Review
Source: Conita
The Samsung Q40T002 Laptop is certainly going places, and taking storm on the consumer markets. As long as there is a need for a new computer with the latest technology, Samsung will continue to produce some of the best technology on the market today. The Samsung Q40T002 Laptop is affordable, reliable, and is sure to make a great gift at the holidays, or just as a gift to one’s self at any time of the year.
sehr gut, Preis/Leistung sehr gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/26/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 90%

80% Samsung Q40 ultraportable laptop
Source: PC Advisor
There's lots to like about the Samsung Q40: it's a neat and trim 12.1in laptop with a brushed aluminium finish that weighs a scant 1.2kg, making it worthy of the term ultraportable. The Samsung Q40 doesn't look as expensive as some models we've tried but it feels robust enough and you don't end up leaving telltale greasy finger marks all over it. More importantly, the Samsung Q40's keyboard is springy and responsive and the keys sufficiently large for the average user to tap away comfortably.
Samsung kits out the Samsung Q40 with Vista Home Premium running on a 1.2GHz Intel processor, a 60GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM. This resulted in a dreadful WorldBench speed score of just 26 – one of the poorest performance scores we’ve seen in quite some time. However, the Samsung Q40 is incredibly strong in other areas.
(von 5): 4, Verarbeitung 4, Ausstattung 4, Preis/Leistung 3
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/08/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 60% features: 80% workmanship: 80%

80% Samsung Q40 ultraportable laptop
Source: PC Advisor
There's lots to like about the Samsung Q40: it's a neat and trim 12.1in laptop with a brushed aluminium finish that weighs a scant 1.2kg, making it worthy of the term ultraportable. The Samsung Q40 doesn't look as expensive as some models we've tried but it feels robust enough and you don't end up leaving telltale greasy finger marks all over it. More importantly, the Samsung Q40's keyboard is springy and responsive and the keys sufficiently large for the average user to tap away comfortably.
Samsung kits out the Samsung Q40 with Vista Home Premium running on a 1.2GHz Intel processor, a 60GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM. This resulted in a dreadful WorldBench speed score of just 26 – one of the poorest performance scores we’ve seen in quite some time. However, the Samsung Q40 is incredibly strong in other areas.
(von 5): 4, Verarbeitung 4, Ausstattung 4, Preis/Leistung 3
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/08/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 60% features: 80% workmanship: 80%

83% Samsung Q40
Source: PC Pro
A great ultraportable for the price; small, stylish and lightweight, it's only a whisker away from the A List. You're buying a gorgeous, well-constructed notebook that performs all the tasks you'll need and is a pleasure to use. The only real sacrifice is the external rather than internal DVD writer. But let's not forget that Samsung bundles two batteries despite the low price. This is simply the best ultraportable we've seen for under £1,000.
eher kurz gehaltener Test; online abrufbar

5 von 6, Preis/Leistung gut, Leistung gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 80% performance: 80%

Foreign Reviews

Samsung Q40
Source: c't
, Length Unknown, Date: 05/10/2007
Rating: performance: 40% features: 40% display: 80% ergonomy: 70%

90% Die schicken Kleinen
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy
, Length Unknown, Date: 04/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% mobility: 90%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).

Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

Intel Core Solo: Single core version of the Core Duo and successor of the Intel Pentium M; Because of the 65nm reduced structure width also smaller current consumption than Pentium M (maximally 27 Watts); the performance is comparable with the equivalent clocked Pentium M (somewhat faster because of a few improvements).

U1400:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

12.1": This is the most common display format for subnotebooks and an average size for subnotebooks.
The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs less power, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that reading of texts is very exhausting vor the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

1.1 kg: This subnotebook is one of the most lightweight of all notebooks and can be carried very easily. There exist hardly any models in this extreme class of weight. 7-9 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

Samsung: Samsung is an international notebook manufacturer of medium size according market shares and reviews. Up tp now, Samsung notebooks achieved excellent total ratings of German and English magazines. Also the ratings of price and performance are respectable.

Samsung reviews

84.6%: This rating is to be considered as average, because the amount of notebooks with better ratings is about equal like the amount with worse ratings.

>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.