

It’s obvious from the outset that this is a Centrino notebook. Either way, Samsung is clearly after the middle market here - meaning anyone with an ordinary range of requirements (Word, Excel, IE and their brethren), and a realistic amount of money to spend. Our review sample came with a 1.5GHz Pentium M processor, 512MB of PC2100 DDR memory, a 40GB hard disk, a DVD/CD-RW combo drive and a Centrino motherboard with built-in 802.11b wireless networking, which covers most of the bases.In fact you don’t even have to settle for that if you don’t really want to: the XTC 1400 model has a 1.4GHz processor, 256MB of DDR SDRAM and a 30GB hard disk, and comes in at £1,099 rather than £1,399 (ex. This isn’t to say that the X05 has been cut down mercilessly to fit a budget.
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