Samsung NP-Q320 Review

Samsung’s NP-Q320, a compact and a light weight laptop with discrete graphic options hits the PC market. The laptop poses a strong competition with well-equipped 13 inch notebooks but Samsung’s model seems to have more muscle than that because of its general purpose use. The model can be easily portable.

Key Specs

• NP-QP320 has a 13.4 inch screen having a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels
• 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
• The screen is a back LED type, having diagonal size of 13.4 inches
• A Keyboard which is an apt for typing
• A trackpad which is quick responding and also with accurate left and right buttons
• Slot-loading DVD drive is present on the right edge with a USB port and a power connector
• Ethernet, VGA USB, HDMI, microphone, headphone and Express card on the left edge
• Front edge hosts a row of blue LEDs for indicating power, hard drive usage, Wi-Fi

Samsung’s NP-Q320 comes with a nVidia GeForce G105 M graphics card with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels having high quality settings. The laptop has a battery life of 3 hours, 56 minutes, a little average life compared to other laptops. The price of the model is approximately $930.

Some of the drawbacks of Q320 are the laptop does not support micro SD card, keys such as Alt and Ctrl looked bit narrow , and a unnecessary menu key to the right of the space bar is present. The display screen does not show color or contrast ratio well. When tuned for maximum brightness, colors looked blurred and worse at lower brightness.