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Samsung 15.3" Quad-Core i7 Laptop with WiDi, WiMAX, Blu-ray & HD LED Display
$599.99 + $5 Shipping
Condition: Refurbished

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Awesome laptop, but $600 for a Woot! item? Oouuuuuch.

Not bad. But I won't buy a Laptop without a 1080p screen anymore

"WiDi?"

"BecauseDi!"

Neowin review:

http://www.neowin.net/news/review-samsung-rc512-s01

I trust neowin enough, though I didn't see a c|net review dedicated to this machine.

With is widi?

widi good, narrowdi better

neoh7 wrote:With is widi?

Intel Wireless Display

It's for streaming to a TV or monitor wirelessly, basically. The TV needs to be equipped for it or there needs to be an adapter plugged into the TV which supports it (theoretically. I'm not sure if any have been produced).

Pretty sure this is my computer I bought from Woot a bit back for freaking 750 bucks. Fantastic computer and runs games really really well. Plays Crysis on high flawlessly.

neoh7 wrote:With is widi?

Wirless HDMI

After reading the story on the bird watching lad, I think his bird of fancy is the yellow breasted mattress thumper.

Instead of the normal links, I profer a Best Buy one. Appears it was $1200 new there earlier this year. Generally very positive reviews, although 2 complaints about bloatware (one from someone who doesn't sound all that computer savvy, so YMMV).

good for gaming?

neoh7 wrote:With is widi?

"d" is next to "f" on the key board? Like in Typo.

I bought this laptop a while back when it was $50 more. I would again. I'm on it now, in fact!

Plays Star Trek Online at highest settings.
Plays DC Universe Online at highest settings.
Even plays SW:TOR on medium-high settings. (Beta...)

I love this computer, it's the fastest I've ever owned and well worth the cash.

i don't understand why Samsung does not put Bluetooth in these?

conhopper wrote:Intel Wireless Display

It's for streaming to a TV or monitor wirelessly, basically. The TV needs to be equipped for it or there needs to be an adapter plugged into the TV which supports it (theoretically. I'm not sure if any have been produced).

They have been around for at least a year. Here is one: http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Push2TV-Adapter-Wireless-PTV1000/dp/B0033WWAF0

I don't understand - the title says HD LED display, but then the specs say a crappy 1300x768 resolution, without LED...

yeawuteva wrote:good for gaming?

For the price point, it's pretty solid. The earlier-referenced Neowin review notes that it can play Battlefield 3 at not-optimal settings, as it were.

I bought this laptop about a month ago for $650. Best Laptop I have ever owned. It plays Sims 3 with everything on high with hardly any lag.

Starts up super fast not even counting the Samsung fast boot, which I now cannot live without(think hibernate, but instant like 3 seconds instant)

does not really get hot. Screen resolution sucks a bit at 720p but connect it to a high res monitor and it is beautiful.

Also great price I dare you to find an i7 laptop with 1GB dedicated Video and 6GB DDR3 and almost a 1 TB of HD space for cheaper.

Oh also it does not come with a recovery disk only recovery partition and as for bloatware not that much some samsung tools. One for updating and one for backing up and a few misc ones. Comes with microsoft office 2010 office starter which gets the job done but has ads.

GitEmSteveDave wrote:They have been around for at least a year. Here is one: http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Push2TV-Adapter-Wireless-PTV1000/dp/B0033WWAF0

So, that's not bad and does a good job of making this a compelling purchase. It would make for a solid HTPC given the specs.

This thing run Skyrim?

jamesbottomtooth wrote:i don't understand why Samsung does not put Bluetooth in these?

I recently purchased a Dell 15R for my wife and an Asus mid-range from Best Buy for my brother. Neither of them had BT built-in either...

$650 on Amazon. 3 positive reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-RC512-S02-i7-2630QM-Blu-ray-Notebook/product-reviews/B005ODOIRE/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

CPU Benchmarks

teenracer6 wrote:$650 on Amazon. 3 positive reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-RC512-S02-i7-2630QM-Blu-ray-Notebook/product-reviews/B005ODOIRE/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Used. Read the sale.

Here's a nice pair of boobies for anyone's wholesome son to ... categorize.

I have this laptop and I hate it...it's going to the technology junkyard (AKA my father) in a few months.

The disk eject is exactly where you'd reach to pick up this laptop. As such, everytime I pick up my laptop with my right hand, I inadvertently push the ejection button. This is a stupid issue, as the button should be an 'innnie' but it's an 'outie'. The result is, after only 5 months of use, the plastic covering the blu-ray player has broken off. I have the Best Buy warranty so I don't care, but you might.

Oh, and the keys aren't backlit, so while typing this I had to tilt the screen to see the letters.

Bought this when it was on two woots ago...worked great for about a month and then started shutting off randomly and getting BSOD's. Tried everything I could to get it working again to no avail.

Samsung did not have great customer service. First time I called they said I'd hear back within 3 business days - never happened. Called again and they directed me to their outsourced repair center. I was never able to get in contact with anyone and they didn't return my message. After going through this I talked to Woot and they agreed to a refund considering they didn't have any in stock.

The laptop was great when it worked and I really wish I still had it. I had no complaints whatsoever, and I paid $150 more for it. Jump on this deal if you are considering it, just be prepared to deal with some crap if it starts messing up.

I bought the 14 inch samsung with an i5 and a gt510m video card and it's great. Didn't play games well enough for me so I sold it to a friend, but the quality of samsung laptops that I've seen is very nice. It's been a couple months and still solid, so don't be (too) scared of the refurb title.

First thing you need to do when you get it though, is update the drivers, and delete all the stupid dvd programs and other junk on it.

Is there any way to get a longer warranty with this? Also, how's Samsung's reliability with refurbished machines? After some bad experiences with my Dell laptop video card I don't trust anyone anymore, especially refurbs...

LaurenR0x wrote:I have this laptop and I hate it...it's going to the technology junkyard (AKA my father) in a few months.

The disk eject is exactly where you'd reach to pick up this laptop. As such, everytime I pick up my laptop with my right hand, I inadvertently push the ejection button. This is a stupid issue, as the button should be an 'innnie' but it's an 'outie'. The result is, after only 5 months of use, the plastic covering the blu-ray player has broken off. I have the Best Buy warranty so I don't care, but you might.

Oh, and the keys aren't backlit, so while typing this I had to tilt the screen to see the letters.

nitpick much?

salzone0816 wrote:nitpick much?

Uhh, no. my A Day of Thanksgiving (1951) is broken. That's not nitpicking.

For those interested in using this for gaming check out http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-525M.43889.0.html. Basically it should run almost anything on at least medium settings. Also the chiclet keyboard and numpad are big plusses for gaming although the display resolution is not ideal...

LaurenR0x wrote:I have this laptop and I hate it...it's going to the technology junkyard (AKA my father) in a few months.

The disk eject is exactly where you'd reach to pick up this laptop. As such, everytime I pick up my laptop with my right hand, I inadvertently push the ejection button. This is a stupid issue, as the button should be an 'innnie' but it's an 'outie'. The result is, after only 5 months of use, the plastic covering the blu-ray player has broken off. I have the Best Buy warranty so I don't care, but you might.

Oh, and the keys aren't backlit, so while typing this I had to tilt the screen to see the letters.

Found this review helpful. Had another laptop years ago that did this. Wasn't too long before the player stopped working right. Thanks for the heads up. I'm out on this one.

bought this laptop a few months ago,
lack of Blue-tooth, win7 HOME PREMIUM, weight are the drawbacks.
My refurb laptop had a small nick on the corner, and the bottom assembly was slightly loose, nothing a screw driver and elbow grease couldn't take care of.
running smoothly, ran crysis, starcarft, as well as solid works without issues.

conhopper wrote:Neowin review:

http://www.neowin.net/news/review-samsung-rc512-s01

I trust neowin enough, though I didn't see a c|net review dedicated to this machine.

They are talking about how well it handles hd video playback and web browser simultaneously. It is an insult to i7 with dedicated media processing engine on top of the cores. Even a 2 core arm with neon vdsp extensions will do hd video and web browsing without any problem.

FYI: it has USB 3.0 which newest usb feature that nowadays they have HDD with 3.0 which can transfer date really fast !! i think this is good computer for it price. !!!

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