Samsung stops notebook supply to SA

We came, we couldn't capture enough market share, we left. And now we're using tablets as the excuse for why we're leaving the space.
 
Samsung laptops were too expensive and nothing special.

Extremely happy with my Toshiba notebook. :love:
 
I sold many Samsung notebooks with a solid success rate over the past few years, they built and priced well.
Will be sad to see them off the market..
 
So what... their machines were much over muchness...
Not many people I have seen with Samsung notebooks anyhow. These days its mainly MacBook and tablets. Those that do have to have laptops I see mostly Lenovo ones out there
 
Koosi said:
So what... their machines were much over muchness...
Not many people I have seen with Samsung notebooks anyhow. These days its mainly MacBook and tablets. Those that do have to have laptops I see mostly Lenovo ones out there
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Not sure why Lenovo is so successful. They machines are ugly and polluted with bloatware. HP seems to be doing well, but Dell also shrinking. HP and Dell machines are much neater than Lenovo.
 
Koosi said:
So what... their machines were much over muchness...
Not many people I have seen with Samsung notebooks anyhow. These days its mainly MacBook and tablets. Those that do have to have laptops I see mostly Lenovo ones out there
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Agreed.. 5 years ago it was mostly Dell an HP...

Now its mostly Lenovo in the corporate space, and Macbooks from what I can see.
 
That sucks. My Samsung NP300 (i5) has given me good service. My work Laptop (HP ProBook, also i5) is about double the weight.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Agreed.. 5 years ago it was mostly Dell an HP...
Now its mostly Lenovo in the corporate space, and Macbooks from what I can see.
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We used to only do HP and Dell for corporate laptops... now since late last year, parent co in France decided on Fujitsu U904 level ultrabooks for all as standard laptop level.
very nice, thin, quick... but F'ing expensive to buy locally. price per laptop almost doubled from HP/Dell.
(oh well... guess its their money :) ... maybe they got some sort of deal with Fuji for all over EMEA group)
(but local service level not exactly same as excellent HP/Dell)
 
In my SO's office there was a massive debate between tablet and notebook users about what is the best (nothing new in that!). They settled the debate with a "competition" between the two groups. The notebook users were divided between the touchpad and mouse users. Each group had to do the same work on a number of linked spreadsheets, a report based on the sheets and e-mail them to the supervisors and the total time between the start and sending the mail with the attachments for each group was taken and averaged.

The results:
  1. Notebook with mouse: 5.4 minutes
  2. Notebook with touchpad: 6.9 minutes
  3. Tablet: 8.4 minutes
The calculations involved are not very complicated.
Since she uses a notebook with a mouse she has now asked if she can leave at 1 every day as she does the same amount of work in 3 hours less than her colleagues using tablets, alternatively an increase.

I suspect a bunfight...
 
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Many students and even teachers at school use Lenovo, I personally also have a Lenovo and its been going for three years strong now.
 
Overpriced? Not my case. I Bought one 15" HD+, 3rd Gen i7 quad core 5 series laptop with 8gb of ram, GT6300, 1TB Hard Drive, bluray drive, excellent finish and very light weright for R11,500 two years ago and the laptop still looks new, it performs very well. I am happy with it, and I always wished that they could make more of those.

Samsung had never been a brand I would have in my when looking for a laptop but they had convinced me once they might do it again.
 
Allin said:
In my SO's office there was a massive debate between tablet and notebook users about what is the best (nothing new in that!). They settled the debate with a "competition" between the two groups. The notebook users were divided between the touchpad and mouse users. Each group had to do the same work on a number of linked spreadsheets, a report based on the sheets and e-mail them to the supervisors and the total time between the start and sending the mail with the attachments for each group was taken and averaged.

The results:
  1. Notebook with mouse: 5.4 minutes
  2. Notebook with touchpad: 6.9 minutes
  3. Tablet: 8.4 minutes
The calculations involved are not very complicated.
Since she uses a notebook with a mouse she has now asked if she can leave at 1 every day as she does the same amount of work in 3 hours less than her colleagues using tablets, alternatively an increase.

I suspect a bunfight...
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Nice! People should be forced to use proper mice. Touchpads are for working on an aeroplane. Otherwise it is complete BS. If the touchpad brigade used shortcutkeys effectively, I might have had some sympathy, but they will happily sweep four or five times to get the cursor to the scroll bar to scroll down. I look the other way when my SO uses her laptop....
:mad:
 
Skerminkel said:
Nice! People should be forced to use proper mice. Touchpads are for working on an aeroplane. Otherwise it is complete BS. If the touchpad brigade used shortcutkeys effectively, I might have had some sympathy, but they will happily sweep four or five times to get the cursor to the scroll bar to scroll down. I look the other way when my SO uses her laptop....
:mad:
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Touchpads are good for mobile emails/communications and the odd document or two. Reading in bed. And maybe a game or two on the aeroplane.
The advantage is - fast startup time and less clutter.

It will never replace a PC with a mouse properly.
Disadvantages of a PC - bulky, lots of paraphernalia (mouse/monitor/keyboard)

Laptop - Best of a PC, portable, but is a bit bulky, especially on an aeroplane.
 
Skerminkel said:
Nice! People should be forced to use proper mice. Touchpads are for working on an aeroplane. Otherwise it is complete BS. If the touchpad brigade used shortcutkeys effectively, I might have had some sympathy, but they will happily sweep four or five times to get the cursor to the scroll bar to scroll down. I look the other way when my SO uses her laptop....
:mad:
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The first thing I do when I start my notebook is to deactivate the touchpad - the number of times an unnoticed touch has caused me to make a mess taught me an expensive lesson!
 
Actually looks like samsung is pulling out of the laptop market globally. In 2015 they will only launch Chromebooks and no conventional laptops.

Sony is dumping their entire PC division (Vaio) as well.
 
Allin said:
The first thing I do when I start my notebook is to deactivate the touchpad - the number of times an unnoticed touch has caused me to make a mess taught me an expensive lesson!
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Same here. Prefer a mouse, will use touchpad only when necessary.
 
ponder said:
Actually looks like samsung is pulling out of the laptop market globally. In 2015 they will only launch Chromebooks and no conventional laptops.

Sony is dumping their entire PC division (Vaio) as well.
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Interesting... I will still prefer a physical keyboard and a mouse though. Even though the screen is a fondleslab...
 
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