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    Has the R560 gone off the market?

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by thewheel2.0, Apr 11, 2009.

  1. thewheel2.0

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    Cant find it in stock anywhere. I wont be buying till june but im researching now. I had my heart set on the R560, are they going to bring a new one out instead of R560? Anybody know a potential release date?

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    thewheel2.0, Apr 11, 2009
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  2. John Ratsey

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    If you are in the US of A then the P560 seems to have a very similar hardware spec to the R560 including the 9600M GS GPU (unusual since the Samsung P series are normally aimed at business users).

    And there's a UK version NP-P560-AS02UK.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Apr 11, 2009
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    thewheel2.0, Apr 11, 2009
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    There's no new models in that number series listed on the Samsung download site. Samsung don't normally announce products being discontinued and new models usually appear in stock before they are announced on the Samsung website.

    There seems to be a few of the R560 around, such as here or here.

    John
     
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    The laptops direct website threw me and when i saw that it was out of stock on dabs.com I thought it was discontinued!
     
    thewheel2.0, Apr 11, 2009
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    You may be correct and the bigger etailers have sold out first.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Apr 12, 2009
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    thewheel2.0, Apr 19, 2009
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    I saw some R560 models with nvidia 130M. Could this be the new model or I missed something?
     
    grbac, Apr 20, 2009
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    grbac, Apr 20, 2009
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    Notebookcheck puts the 130M below the Intel X4500 so I wonder if that selection is made for commercial, not technical, reasons.

    John
     
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    I don't know how you've seen this but apparently it is on No.40 just two places below 9700gt. But there's one but. They took average of three scores of 3dmark06 and the average is 5816. But only one is actually a benchmark, other two are (I think) assumptions.
    So the benchmark of Samsung R560 with 130M is 6449. i think that with the 9600GT was around 5800, so that's a 650 jump. Good?
    I hope I'm not wrong.
     
    grbac, Apr 21, 2009
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    Ah, did I mention also there is review as well here
     
    grbac, Apr 21, 2009
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