Samsung Series 7 all-in-one (DP700A3B)

The good: The Samsung Series 7 all-in-one offers a unique design and easy-to-use touch software for a reasonable price.

The bad: Samsung has decided to steer clear of the performance crowd, and it shows. We also wish this system had a Blu-ray drive like others in its price range.

The bottom line: Samsung has captured our attention, and our Editors' Choice Award, in its U.S. desktop debut, and we expect the Series 7 all-in-one PC will attract many mainstream customers with its appealing looks and accessible touch interface.

Samsung is a new player in the U.S. all-in-one desktop market looks, and the first attempt, Series 7, what happens when an inexperienced consumer electronics manufacturers to bring new eyes to the product category can be. Pressing the 7 Series All-in-one has a unique look and a number of powerful software that touches the senses and general usability characteristics. Samsung aims to clients is based on system performance, but at a reasonable price of $ 1199 offers the Samsung Series 7, touching the most easily accessible to families, we have seen.

We are directly affected by the project from Samsung, which is almost perfect. Aluminium, cold hand brushed finish and corner of the screen is an important part of the lower body, suggesting that the Samsung Series 7 is involved in a neat appearance. Uniform parallel port on the back of the case stands, slot-loading optical drives and capacitive touch buttons on the banks receive from all the work for the eyes.

The system is very clean, it seems that two of the most important design step further, so small. The optical drive must be clearly intrusive, for one, with the front area, and ensure that the awkward position of the mouse and keyboard. If you lie down - remember that the screen folds down to 90 degrees - both optical drives and joint position so the screen has been entered does not match the basic unit?.


They recognize the opinion, and almost entirely cosmetic, and in general the Samsung Series 7 is the second after the iMac in terms of optics.

Add the ability to lie completely flat screen, larger than the previous all-in-one, 7-Series is also set apart from the competition. Desktop from other suppliers, notably Hewlett-Packard TouchSmart 610-series features, the flexibility offered, but no one followed the concept of using real individual extreme screen. We can imagine that Samsung will provide the same flexibility in other ways in which the base rotates down to 90 degrees to a. Plates, suitable for wall mounting services, but the 7-series has not been

What will you do with the screen, making it flat, like the Microsoft Surface concept, is another matter. With Google Maps (or Bing Maps including applications) are satisfactory, and you feel as if I was planning a military operation. We can also see a drawing program and at least some basic games such as chess, checkers, board games, air hockey and the allocation of vouchers for Samsung flat screen. More passive applications such as web browsers, image viewer and media player seems less suitable.

Further difficulties with the screen on the left fully Series 7, you should make use of the system, which is easy to use in the sense, especially when some people use it simultaneously. A typical desktop or office does not seem ideal, but the kitchen table, coffee table, or in another room with multi-access roads make more sense. System does not always sit as you want, of course, but if you use it to take into account the physical placement carefully depending on the program you want to use.

Which brings us to the Samsung touch screen and the accompanying application. Instead capacitive touchscreen, the Samsung uses Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology to track the movement of fingers on the screen. The screen can detect the two inputs at once, and in general we must respond, even if not required, a bit of pressure 'is more constant on a touch-General.

Even if the touch input works well, the real star of the show a touch of ambient Samsung Touch Launcher Software. Touch Launcher remind older incarnation of the HP TouchSmart suite. Touch Launcher acts as a separate environment in Windows 7 and applications and provides a common interface that is designed specifically for the typing. In the execution environment is close to Samsung's Google Android and Apple's IOS is more complex than the HP TouchSmart suite.

Samsung presented the application is simpler than HP, and fewer in number, but thanks to more experience greeted with a clean design. Touch Launcher environment consists of the sidebar with time, weather and things to do lists, and the central area consists of a large application shortcut icons. Samsung, a typical application, the design has a touch-responsive, for example, clock, video player and photo viewer files. You can use all standard Windows icons for Touch Launcher. Call the main launcher page has 20 icons, and the second side, you can easily drag and drop, as a smartphone.