Samsung X360-34P

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Pros
Bright, easily-viewable screen
Fantastic battery life
Cons
Pretty, but pricey

$1,542.51
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Performance: Good: 76
Features: Good: 70
Design: Very Good: 87

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	591
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	669
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	1103
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	7:36:40 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	8.57
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	23.74
Firefox 2	413
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	420
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	350
Multitasking	557
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	323
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	300
Unreal Tournament 3, Highest, 1024 by 768	5.83
Unreal Tournament 3, Highest, 800 by 600	7.02
Unreal Tournament 3, Medium, 1024 by 768	6.26
Unreal Tournament 3, Medium, 800 by 600	8.08
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	360
WorldBench 6 Score	73
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Fair

What You Should Know about the X360-34P

Multitask to Your Heart's Content and Not Bog Down

This laptop, equipped with at least 3GB of memory, will run all of your programs quickly (paired with a high-end CPU, that much memory will make things especially speedy). You'll be able to multitask to your heart's content, too, so go ahead--you can back up the entire contents of your hard drive to a DVD while watching YouTube videos and experimenting with textures on the 2MB photo of your client's art gallery in Photoshop. The main drawback is the extra expense: Loading up with more than the standard amount of RAM (2GB, these days) can add hundreds of dollars to a laptop's price, though it boosts performance by only about 10 percent. Also bear in mind that if you hope to use more than 3GB of RAM effectively, your PC must have a 64-bit installation of Windows.