Does anyone know if this comes with the windows 7 disk?

zintzun wrote:I'm sure a lot of people likes 14 in, and it used to be the norm, I'm just very used to have at least 15.4 in. Just personal preference.

That's funny. I was trying to make a reference to Cartman's penis(this week's episode) while being relatively close to the screen size difference, looks like I was exactly right!

Micing wrote:Well, I heard that whatever you happen to be touching at 6:00 pm. gets raptured too. So, if you hug your shiny new laptop really tight it goes with you.

Is that Eastern or Pacific?

Wow, all that potential performance and they marry it to a tiny 1366x768 screen? That ruins the whole package right there.

Is that Eastern or Pacific?

Same time in EVERY time zone. ;)

ThunderThighs wrote:You have high hopes about our shipping ability, don't ya?

Well, since its the rapture and we'll be shelling out the big bucks for buying this, mebbe you guys can rush out the shipping too? :D ;)

macraig wrote:Wow, all that potential performance and they marry it to a tiny 1366x768 screen? That ruins the whole package right there.


Same time in EVERY time zone. ;)

1366x768 is the standard for 15.6" consumer laptops, and this is only 14 inches. There isn't much room to take advantage of a higher resolution.

What is "Edge-to-Edge Glass"? The display clearly has a bezel or frame surrounding the LCD screen so how is that edge to edge? In fact, my HP has a thinner bezel and it's not considered anything special.

sdc100 wrote:What is "Edge-to-Edge Glass"? The display clearly has a bezel or frame surrounding the LCD screen so how is that edge to edge? In fact, my HP has a thinner bezel and it's not considered anything special.

Maybe referring to the entire display feeling of glass, even with the bezel being there? Or a covering of glass?

sdc100 wrote:What is "Edge-to-Edge Glass"? The display clearly has a bezel or frame surrounding the LCD screen so how is that edge to edge? In fact, my HP has a thinner bezel and it's not considered anything special.

Its a bit of marketing really, but the difference is that the pixels go right up to where the bezel is. If you look on most monitors and laptop displays, you have a small area, maybe 10 pixels on the Viewsonic I am using, of black borders on the LCD screen before the bezel. Maximize a bright window and you will see.

An edge-to-edge screen goes right up to the edge of the bezel.

EDIT: Man I love marketing gimmicks with no real 'standards' for terms....

In addition to what I explained above, edge-to-edge 'glass' usually means that there is a glass on top of the bevel and screen that goes from edge to edge. Think Macbook Pro, if you run your finger across the screen it will be flat from end to end, the bezel is underneath. So apparently 'edge to edge' and 'edge to edge glass' are slightly different to the marketing peeps. This laptop has edge to edge 'glass'.

Mitch70 wrote:Does anyone know if this comes with the windows 7 disk?

In general, the answer would be no, and it's not in the description or the photos. Most computers now require that you make your own Windows 7 DVDs upon setting up the computer. Furthermore, those DVDs are computer-specific, meaning you can't use them on any other computer.

sdc100 wrote:What is "Edge-to-Edge Glass"? The display clearly has a bezel or frame surrounding the LCD screen so how is that edge to edge? In fact, my HP has a thinner bezel and it's not considered anything special.

Edge-to-Edge refers to the fact that the entire visible glass surface contains pixels for display. Most screens have some sort of inactive black border visible between the frame and the displayed image, but edge-to-edge means they've eliminated that.

i need a new laptop, and i like everything i see here, except the screen is glossy right? so very reflective.. sun glare etc?

also samsung laptops are not even in most popular reliability charts. whats the failure rate?

jamesbottomtooth wrote:i need a new laptop, and i like everything i see here, except the screen is glossy right? so very reflective.. sun glare etc?

also samsung laptops are not even in most popular reliability charts. whats the failure rate?

This screen is apparently actual glass rather than plastic with a glossy coating as is usually the case with glossy screens. Real glass generally doesn't produce as much glare as the glossy screens you're probably using for comparison.

also why no Bluetooth, no webcam

smartpost?

Not bad. Got a similar Asus U30JC for my wife last year with almost the same exact specs. She loves it. Good combination of portability and power. Heck, I can play StarCraftII on it. And with the Optimus graphic switching, I can get up to 6 hours on one battery.

For everyone who wants to know "How well does game 'X' play on this"...

Here is a nice page that has comprehensive benchmarks for the NVIDIA GeForce 310M graphic card included in this laptop.

It includes 3Dmark, Pcmark, as well as FPS benchmarks for many popular games.

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I don't see and HDMI port on the pictures.
Am I missing something?

jamesbottomtooth wrote:also why no Bluetooth, no webcam

smartpost?

It does have a webcamera, but yeah i don't see bluetooth.

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP-QX410-J01US-features

Here is the review at PC-mag.com.

And the video review at cNet.

And the Amazon Link.

New to Wimax. I live in Atlanta. Do I have to use Clear? Tried it a couple of years ago and results were very spotty.

mattw783 wrote: The only gripe I have is with the touchpad. It's very finicky and its placement means my left palm touches it frequently and tends to move the cursor while typing. It's best to disable it and get an external mouse.

equazcion wrote:A note of caution: The touchpad on this doesn't have physical buttons. The area where buttons usually would be is just more touchpad, and when you tap there it performs a click.

There are a lot of discontinued laptops with this type of pad floating around for great prices, notably the HP ProBook 4 series, because people don't like this "feature". If you're used to resting your fingers on your touchpad buttons, you may be frustrated when that activates touch gestures or mouse drags.

Just a heads-up.

This laptop is trying to be like a Macbook Pro and the over-sized multitouch trackpad is similar to one but not as good. I don't think there are many discontinued notebooks due to this, in fact we are probably going to start seeing more and more of this as companies try to follow Apple.

I too have found it hard to get used to the over sized trackpads on the Macbooks etc, but after time you do get used to it.

I have used this laptop for a few months now and it is excellent. Aluminum casing so there are no grooves to collect crumbs and such. I5 processor that with Google chrome is lightning fast. LED glass coating/display with minimal glare. Intel Wireless display transmits the image on your monitor to your TV screen flawlessly ( with adapter $90 / Best Buy). Only gripe is the touch pad that is sensitive to your palms and can lift your cursor to another part of the screen. Has an Apple IMac feel and look to it. Also, the battery life is 5-6 hours. However, the battery is not replaceable so down the road/might be a problem. Highly recommend.

This is so tempting!

Chipmonstr5 wrote:That's funny. I was trying to make a reference to Cartman's penis(this week's episode) while being relatively close to the screen size difference, looks like I was exactly right!

+1 for Cartman's penis!

Great laptop, caught it during the last woot-off and have loved it ever since.

I'm extremely tempted. Been looking for a nice 14" from Sony or Asus, but when Cnet compared it to Macbook/Sony quality, it caught my attention.

zintzun wrote:Looks nice, great specs, too bad it's only 14 inches

....thats what she said

Typing from one of these, I can say it is definitely worth it. I paid 800 for mine back in December and haven't been disappointed at all. I decided to take my chances on a Samsung only because everything I've ever bought from them has been quality.

Good sound, never been a problem with 4-5 programs running at once, and it runs fast.
Can sit on your lap for hours without getting hot as well.

The only thing I don't like about it is... well... I can't really think of anything.
Oh, except I bought mine from Best Buy and it came with a shart ton of extra useless programs that you will probably delete the first hour you get home.

equazcion wrote:The processor has 2 cores in case anyone was wondering. I mention this because the specs don't say, and i5's can be either 2 or 4 cores.

From what I can tell all the mobile i5 are 2 core. desktop i5 can be 2 or (more often) 4 core.

Gotta love that DRR memory...

theguruguys wrote:This laptop is trying to be like a Macbook Pro and the over-sized multitouch trackpad is similar to one but not as good. I don't think there are many discontinued notebooks due to this, in fact we are probably going to start seeing more and more of this as companies try to follow Apple.

I too have found it hard to get used to the over sized trackpads on the Macbooks etc, but after time you do get used to it.

HP abandoned these touchpads for its ProBook and EliteBook business lines, after trying it on their 4**S models. Those are currently their only business-class models you can find anywhere for under $700-800, many units going for as little as $400.

You can get a ProBook 4520S with i3 2.5GHz for $430 right now, and ProBooks are extraordinarily well-built machines, much more solid than any consumer laptop, which makes this price point very peculiar for them. When you read through the reviews for that series though, the reason the prices are so good becomes evident. The touchpads are a consistent complaint.

I would say you could be correct regarding appeal to home users but even among them, laptops with these touchpads garner consistent complaints from what I see; and many of the people who say they're getting along fine also mention they only use it with an external mouse. Without question they're unpopular for business productivity.

This is the laptop I almost bought tonight that I was going to use for college. The only reason I didn't buy it was because Best Buy closed at 9 and I didn't have my debit card on me!

Thank God for woot!

equazcion wrote:
I would say you could be correct regarding appeal to home users but even among them, laptops with these touchpads garner consistent complaints from what I see; and many of the people who say they're getting along fine also mention they only use it with an external mouse.

Yup. Its like with those horrid 'glossy lcd screens'. They do nothing but produce glare, but consumers seem to love them so everyone has to use them. It doesn't always matter if its a practical addition, as long as its 'appears' practical...

I've always kinda liked the IBM / Lenovo Thinkpad business type machines with the thumbstick pointer in the middle of the keyboard myself.

P.S. That trackpad on the probook you linked is so far off centered to the left, I can see why it would be even more of a problem accidentally hitting it.

For those that have this... any comments on the graphics card for games? I want to get it for my girlfriend who occasionally plays 3D games...

tronne wrote:For those that have this... any comments on the graphics card for games? I want to get it for my girlfriend who occasionally plays 3D games...

See my earlier post.

theguruguys wrote:Unlike some of the previos laptops recently offered here at Woot, this one has a very nice i5-460M which scores a nice 2618 on passmark.

A new i5-460M, but no eSata or USB 3.0.

I feel it's not that great of a deal. I just got a 14" HP, Core i5 Aluminum body with HD out, 3 USB, yada yada yada for 600$ plus a 50$ mail in rebate. So yes, after taxes I paid about 70$ more for the thing, but it was also brand new instead of refurbished.

If you're patient and look around for a bit, it shouldn't be that hard to find a similar deal on a new i5 laptoppy...just a thought.

Also, 14" in my opinion is the way to go. 15.6 would be ok, but unless your a gamer (Of course then you'd be using a desktop) having a 17" screen is like lugging around a desktop in your bag.

crzyazndude wrote:WiDi = Wireless High Def

Actually it stands for

'Wireless Display'