My latest laptop review is up now at PC World, for the Samsung NP-Q320. It’s a pretty good notebook for the price. At just under $1,000, I think it hits the sweet spot for price/performance for a lot of folks. Those $600 notebooks just have too many compromises, I think. At that point you might as well go for something really small and light in the $400 range. I generally prefer a notebook that is small and light enough not to be a burden to carry around (no 17″ models for me…I’m just not the market for that), and for me a really good notebook has got to have discrete graphics. Even if it’s just the extremely low-end GeForce G 105M, as in this Samsung, it’s still way better than integrated graphics.
Of course, if I were buying a notebook for myself, I’d probably wait until the middle of October and get one of those really awesome new HP Envy notebooks. They’re a lot more expensive, but oh-so-awesome. (Probably. Who knows what “gotchas” they haven’t told us about yet.)
