The LEDs are a great idea, helping locate the slightly hidden surface in dim lighting, but the button-bar beneath is as bad as the LEDs are good. In Toshiba style, the pad is flush with the palm rest, differentiated only by its matte surface and four softly-lit blue LEDs in the corners of the pad's surface area. There's a lot of palm-rest space, but the multitouch pad is curiously small in comparison. The only other button on the expansive glossy interior is the power button on the upper right next to one of two exposed speaker grilles. The square raised keys are closely fit together, and the board has minimal flex in the center.
The keyboard keys are sturdy, but we found they took a sharper, more forceful finger press to consistently connect. This could bother gamers or inflexible touch-typers. The right Shift key is also, as a result, shorter than the Enter key, and shifted slightly to the left to accommodate the "up" arrow key.
The keyboard on the NP-R580-JSB1US is quite similar to the full chiclet keyboard/number pad we've seen on several midrange Asus laptops, and also exhibits the same frustrating folding of the direction arrow keys into part of the number pad, making them hard to locate in a pinch. Inside, this Samsung starts to feel like an Asus.
It's not a spectacularly attractive or ergonomically friendly machine, and the battery life is on the disappointing side, but this Samsung has an ideal base package of features for someone who wants to do nearly everything on their laptop and not pay dearly for it.Ī standard set of dual hinges opens up smoothly with some soft resistance, and both upper and lower halves lie relatively flush with each other, with the lower lip jutting out slightly. Though the cost for this system is higher than other mainstream machines in this roundup, for $829 it's an excellent value for what's being offered, at only $30 more than the larger and lesser-featured Toshiba Satellite A505-S6025, and for less money than either of the other Core i5 mainstream laptops we've reviewed recently. This is the first Samsung laptop we've seen in this size (previously, we've reviewed a small handful of Samsung Netbooks), and the specs are great: an Intel Core i5 processor, Nvidia GeForce 310M graphics, a 500GB hard drive, 4GB of RAM, and a Blu-ray drive, along with a 15.6-inch screen. In this year's mainstream laptop selection, the Samsung NP-R580-JSB1US seems to be it. Each time our laptop/desktop retail roundup comes along, we try to keep our eyes out for one laptop whose set of configurations is a surprisingly good deal, a package that's a steal compared to what you might find in other models.
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