Samsung R525 Series

Processor: AMD Athlon II M320, AMD Phenom II X3 P840
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
Display: 15.60 inch
Weight: 2.3kg, 2.427kg
Price: 669, 700 euro

Average Score: 74.5% - average
Average of 4 scores (from 5 reviews)

performance: 70%, features: 65%, display: 68%, mobility: 56%, workmanship: 82%, ergonomy: 91%, emissions: 78%

Samsung R525 Eikee NP-R525-JS01DE

Specifications

Notebook: Samsung R525 Eikee NP-R525-JS01DE
Processor: AMD Athlon II M320
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 512 MB
Display: 15.60 inch, 16:9, 1366 x 768 pixels
Weight: 2.427kg
Price: 669 euro
Links: Samsung notebook section

Pricecompare

Average Score: 80% - good

Average of 2 scores (from 4 reviews)

Reviews

79% Review Samsung R525 Eikee NP-R525-JS01DE Notebook | Notebookcheck
Office with a heart for Games. We only review over-priced Apple MacBooks? Wrong. Here is a 535 euro all-rounder that everyone can afford. The 15.6 incher doesn't only have office qualities due to an ATI HD 5470 and a fast hard disk.

Foreign Reviews

Test: Samsung R525 Eikee
Source: Notebookinfo German

DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/06/2010
Rating: performance: 80% display: 80% emissions: 80%

Test: Samsung R525 Eikee
Source: Notebookinfo German

DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/06/2010
Rating: performance: 80% display: 80% emissions: 80%

80% R525 Samsung
Source: 01Net French

FR→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/21/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%

80% R525 Samsung
Source: 01Net French

FR→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/21/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%

Samsung R525-JT05

Specifications

Notebook: Samsung R525-JT05
Processor: AMD Phenom II X3 P840
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
Display: 15.60 inch, 16:9, 1366 x 768 pixels
Weight: 2.3kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Samsung notebook section

Pricecompare

Average Score: 59% - poor

Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)

Foreign Reviews

59% Oбзор ноутбука Samsung R525-JT05
Source: Retera

RU→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/02/2011
Rating: Total score: 59% performance: 53% display: 41% mobility: 37% emissions: 62%

Comment

Samsung: Samsung Group is the largest South Korean conglomerate and was founded in 1938. Samsung Group employed 489,000 people in 2014 and is one of the world's largest companies in terms of revenue and market strength. The name Samsung means "Three Stars" in Korean and represents the three sons of the company's founder. The company was founded in 1938 as a grocery store. With its subsidiary Samsung Electronics, founded in 1969, Samsung took up the production of electrotechnical items, focusing on consumer electronics and household appliances at an early stage. Other branches in which the large corporation is active include mechanical engineering, automobiles (Hyundai), insurance, wholesale, real estate and leisure. Samsung manufactures a wide range of electronic products, including smartphones, televisions, home appliances and semiconductors. The company's Galaxy line of smartphones is one of the most popular in the world. Samsung is also a major player in the semiconductor industry, making memory chips and processors for many other electronics manufacturers.

Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470: Entry level DirectX 11 chip with GDDR5 support but only 80 shader cores. Supports Eyefinity (up to 4 monitors) and 8-ch HD audio over HDMI. Performance on par with the old GeForce 8600M GT.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

AMD Athlon II:

M320:

Entry level dual core CPU by AMD which features an integrated memory controller (400MHz DDR2) and is based only partially on the K10 core. The performance should be compareable to a 1.8 Celeron Dual Core. The CPU supports 64 Bit and Virtualization.

AMD Phenom II X3:

P840: Mobile 3-core CPU based on the desktop Athlon II X3. Due to the missing level 3 cache and the slow clock speed not really well suited for gamers.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

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74.5%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.