Does anyone have any experience or views on Samsung laptops (the NP-X22 in particular) They seem to get decent reviews in the mags we get and they apparently won PC Pro's best manufacturer of the year notebook award for 2007 (if that means anything) but magazine write ups aren't really the same as the experience of a real user

Cheers

No experience of that specific model.

Have recommended the R40 and R60's to people in the recent past. Currently in the department stock we have a Q35 ( unbelieveably abused by it's user but seemingly unbreakable) and the larger M series (monster of a laptop)

The R40's hit a nice price point between build quality and feel (like a cheap Macbook) and features. Reliable, well built. What more do you want?

We use samsung laptops at work, and have no issues with them at all.

No experience of that specific model.

Have recommended the R40 and R60's to people in the recent past. Currently in the department stock we have a Q35 ( unbelieveably abused by it's user but seemingly unbreakable) and the larger M series (monster of a laptop)

The R40's hit a nice price point between build quality and feel (like a cheap Macbook) and features. Reliable, well built. What more do you want?

We use samsung laptops at work, and have no issues with them at all.

wicked. just the sort of useful, real world stuff I was after We've other Samsung stuff about the place and that's all been good - only steering away from the more usual HP and Tosh/Lenovo (in particular) as I'm finding them a bit too...stuffy(?) and I'm wanting something with at least a little bit of swish to it

We used to buy Samsungs at work - V20s and V25s , and were very pleased with them.

They replaced that model with the P28 and P29 and they had a shocking reliability record - half of the ones we bought died in less than 18 months with motherboard failures.

Since then I've switched to buying Dell and been very pleased with the quality and backup

My mate has several and swears by them.

I purchased a samsung R20 laptop to use as a Vag-Com machine. It came with Vista pre installed but Samsung made XP drivers available through its website, i downloaded these and am currently running XP. Its an excellent machine and in fact i actually prefer it to my main machine, the one i am typing on now, an Asus G1S. The only reason i use the Asus is because it was a lot more expensive than the Samsung. I have a friend that has an older model Samsung and he prefers that to his new Toshiba notebook.

So for me, a big :thumbup:for samsung.

Regards

We buy Samsung Laptops at work - RM, our contracted supplier supplies either their own brand or Samsung.

I have to say that we have very little problems with them.

I had a V20 but these had problems with the screens after a couple of years. This is the only model we have had serious and repeated problems with. I drop my laptops regularly due to the locations I try to use them.

I then had a Q25. These were very robust - only a small crack in the battery when I dropped it down some stairs after I had it a couple of weeks, but kept going for years (I passed it on to someone who needed a laptop in a hurry and he's still using it).

I am typing this on a Q45 which I've had since January. I haven't abused this one at all yet.

I find that using them in an academic community with teaching staff and students using them they survive very well. I even have one which gets used rattling around in the footwells of a Lotus Exige and a Caterham Seven type of kit car as well as supporting a Motor Cycle race team that seems to care very little for the equipment they borrow.

I have very little experience of other brands but Samsung have been very good to me reliability wise.

We used to buy Samsungs at work - V20s and V25s , and were very pleased with them.

They replaced that model with the P28 and P29 and they had a shocking reliability record - half of the ones we bought died in less than 18 months with motherboard failures.

We had almost entirely the opposite experience - out of almost 150 V20s, over 60 of them had to go back for inverter failures, general screen issues and fried boards. The P28s we had were an absolute model of reliability by comparison, and I'm still running mine three years on without a single hitch of any sort Bear in mind that this machine was initially broken by someone dropping a huge box file onto the keyboard

Overall I've found today's Samsungs to be pretty decent and free of the horors of the past, even though they do occasionally market models with hugely different specs under the same model name, and seem to have have odd differences between territories. Check the specific stats carefully, load it with as much ram as you can afford, and they're generally fine

Relevant but not all that helpful

Tosh on top for laptop reliability | The Register

Doesn't mention Samsung at all. Tosh comes out on top.

Just got one for mother to use. - She is a slight technophobe and I can tell you after four weeks "No Problems".

I was really impressed with the build quality and was tempted to swap it for my old HP!

Relevant but not all that helpful

Tosh on top for laptop reliability | The Register

Doesn't mention Samsung at all. Tosh comes out on top.

Sony and Toshiba were top of that reliability list; we're looking to replace a couple of Sony laptops because they've been generally flakey (albeit kinda pretty)

I don't rate Sony kit personally. It's never agreed with me, too much proprietary gubbins.

I'd take a Tosh in a minute though they've always seemed to be well made. I like my HP myself but it's a business laptop and they are (allegedly) built better than the HP home laptops.