Samsung Philippines introduced their very first line of 14-inch laptops (R440, R480) in the Philippines yesterday, including a refresh of their netbooks (N220P, N150P).
Samsung R440 specs
Intel Core i3 350M @ 2.26GHz
2GB DDR3 RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD5145 w/ 512MB DDR3 VRAM
320GB SATA HDD
Super Multi-Drive
6-cell 4400mAh battery
Windows 7 Home Basic (32-bit)
Price: Php39,900
Samsung R480 specs:
14″ display @ 1366×768
Windows7 Home Basic (32 bit)
Intel Core i3 350M @ 2.26GHz
2GB DDR3 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 1GB DDR3 VRAM
500GB SATA HDD
Super Multi Drive
6-cell 4400mAh battery
Price: Php44,900 (Php54,900 for the Core i5 and 4GB RAM)
Meanwhile, the Samsung netbooks also got some upgrade and now running an Intel Atom N470 @ 1.83GHz processor as well as a variety of colors – black, yellow and pink.
The rest of the specs are the same with the N150P (see here) while the N220P bumped the CPU to N470 1.83GHz. The suggested retail price is Php21,990 and Php24,990, respectively.
When Samsung expanded their product line to notebooks/netbooks back in March, they even got someone from Acer to head their laptop division.