Samsung
Electronics is quietly selling laptops with HD DVD optical drives on its
domestic market. This comes as a surprise, as Samsung earlier decided to scrap
its consumers players that would play both BDs and competing HD DVDs. Samsung
M55 notebooks come with 17" screens with 1920x1200 resolution, up to 2GB of
memory, 120GB Serial ATA hard disk drive, Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 graphics
processing unit with 256MB of memory, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth support and so on. The
system with HD DVD read only memory (ROM) drive is equipped with Intel Core Duo
T2500 processor, whereas the one with HD DVD burner features Intel Core 2 Duo
T7200 central processing unit (CPU). According to
Akihabaranews website, the more advanced Samsung M55 costs 2430 or $3185.