JessterJ wrote:Your US military, many in the healthcare industry (doctors & nurses) and most Fortune 500 companies are embracing the iPad. The new iPad3 should take over the healthcare industry by showing amazing scans and x-rays on the fly wherever they are needed. This samsung will be a boat anchor in a couple of years.

lol

ylalgondar wrote:Micro Center has the identical model new one for $600!
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0375171

How is this identical???
less memory, smaller HD and lower video card.

wow . . .

JessterJ wrote:I'd buy it if it could run Mac OSX; became too tired of the usual PC issues. SOOOOOOO much more happy with my macbook air Core i7.

If I were as happy as you say you are with a macbook air, I would not spend my time reading the comments on a PC I don't want.

toms203040 wrote:Yeeeaaaaah. No there's not. Not a single one. No 5400rpm drive will out perform ANY 7200rpm drive - EVER. It's the simple fact of how fast they can move data past the read/write heads.

That's not entirely true.

A high capacity 5400RPM drive can perform more quickly for sequential access than a low capacity 7200RPM drive, because the higher areal density makes up for the difference in rotational speed. It's highly dependent on the specific drive though, i.e. a 2TB drive with 4 platters has lower areal density than a 2TB drive with 3 platters.

for comparison sake lenovo for 10 bucks more with a ssd.
http://outlet.lenovo.com/laptops/ideapad/0862xb9.html

JessterJ wrote:Your US military, many in the healthcare industry (doctors & nurses) and most Fortune 500 companies are embracing the iPad. The new iPad3 should take over the healthcare industry by showing amazing scans and x-rays on the fly wherever they are needed. This samsung will be a boat anchor in a couple of years.

I don't own one (can't remember ever owning an Apple product), but I agree. The iPad is a powerful tool with no competitor in some areas. A Navy pilot buddy of mine was just issued an ipad to take with him on flights as the co-pilot in an F-18. It uses some pretty complex topographical maps and maps travel routes and nearest airports (among other uses)...

As for this product. Seems a bit pricy, for what you're getting and other refurb options available. When comparing to new prices it is easy to find savings though.

pgoodma wrote:Best Buy has a 17" laptop with the i7 processor and EIGHT GB of RAM, and same size hard drive for $100.00 more.....

Well, this one is refurbished and has a 15.6 inch screen

Sounds pretty nice, but then I noticed there is no FireWire port. I need that for my camera. Bummer!

LED backlight?

What’s creepier? An empty library or the average Internet forum?

A Internet sales based company that assigns users in there discussion forums avatars that appears they were drawn by the criminally insane in a state mental lockup.
Just sayin.............

Not the same at all.

Really wish I could justify buying one of these...seems like a very solid deal.

renegadealien wrote:Not the same at all.

Anything in particular or just things in general ?

what's the battery life on this thing? switchable graphics?

Do not buy Samsung.

I'm sorry I didn't check out Woot earlier today to warn people off of Samsung, but I spent last night and most of today dealing with a malfunctioning/nonfunctioning Samsung RC512 which I bought here last Nov.

Since Nov I have experienced blue screens and freezing several times a week but not often enought to do anything. Then the trackpad ceased functioning. I tried the usual, windows retore re-installing trackpad software with no results. I called Samsung support. I will never deal with them again.
Too much occurred to write about but they have no interest in supporting these products - no second level support - no supervisorory staff to assist.

I followed the advice of one agent to use the Samsung basic recovery program and was worse off then before.


I'm sending it back if I can - but since it is a refur I don't know if they will take it.

Avoid the frustration - don't buy Samsung

CowboyDann wrote:Does this mean I can play video games on it?

You can play plenty of video games on it, I assure you.

Never thought I'd see MY laptop on Woot! Although I did get mine for a deal as well. While not refurbished, I got mine new at Best Buy on Black Friday for $800. I have to say, it left me flat broke, but it was worth it. Here are my pros and cons:

I use my laptop for:
-gaming
-school work
-some design work
-internet browsing
-video streaming
-music

Pros:
-Fast startup
-numpad
-sleek design
-very nice trackpad (with multitouch)
-quiet
-stays cool under normal circumstances
-small screen bezel
-nice quality screen
-hdmi
-vacuum drive
-great laptop graphics card for gaming
-excellent battery life

Cons:
-No backlit keyboard
-screen is very thin....I am always scared I am going to break it.
-the edge of the laptop where you would rest your wrist while using the trackpad can be kind of sharp especially if you lean into it hard enough.

I also highly recommend this etsy shop for new laptops.... http://www.etsy.com/shop/GlueJunkie?ref=seller_info

=)

jud1929 wrote:Do not buy Samsung.

I'm sorry I didn't check out Woot earlier today to warn people off of Samsung, but I spent last night and most of today dealing with a malfunctioning/nonfunctioning Samsung RC512 which I bought here last Nov.

Since Nov I have experienced blue screens and freezing several times a week but not often enought to do anything. Then the trackpad ceased functioning. I tried the usual, windows retore re-installing trackpad software with no results. I called Samsung support. I will never deal with them again.
Too much occurred to write about but they have no interest in supporting these products - no second level support - no supervisorory staff to assist.

I followed the advice of one agent to use the Samsung basic recovery program and was worse off then before.


I'm sending it back if I can - but since it is a refur I don't know if they will take it.

Avoid the frustration - don't buy Samsung

Isn't it a big assumption to say that since your laptop was faulty that means all of the laptops made by that company are faulty?

I had a bad experience with Samsung customer support. I waiting 5 weeks to get the laptop repaired and finally told them to just send it back. Luckily Woot is a stand up company and gave me a refund. I won't buy anything from samsung again if I can help it.

Getting OSX on it might be harder, but Ubuntu should run great on it. It's my top choice OS.

jud1929 wrote:Do not buy Samsung.

I'm sorry I didn't check out Woot earlier today to warn people off of Samsung, but I spent last night and most of today dealing with a malfunctioning/nonfunctioning Samsung RC512 which I bought here last Nov.

Since Nov I have experienced blue screens and freezing several times a week but not often enought to do anything. Then the trackpad ceased functioning. I tried the usual, windows retore re-installing trackpad software with no results. I called Samsung support. I will never deal with them again.
Too much occurred to write about but they have no interest in supporting these products - no second level support - no supervisorory staff to assist.

I followed the advice of one agent to use the Samsung basic recovery program and was worse off then before.


I'm sending it back if I can - but since it is a refur I don't know if they will take it.

Avoid the frustration - don't buy Samsung

As with ANY electronics manufacturer you will get a dud in 100,000. Some companies are worse then others but I've had a Samsung netbook that I've beat up and installed multiple partitions and operating systems on and its still running two years in a row.

As to the support, practically every company lacks in support. Just the nature of the beast. Even apples vaunted support has sucked really bad the last 10 times I've had to call them for friends iPhones (I do all the tech suprt for everyone I know...).

toms203040 wrote:Yeeeaaaaah. No there's not. Not a single one. No 5400rpm drive will out perform ANY 7200rpm drive - EVER. It's the simple fact of how fast they can move data past the read/write heads.

ddremund wrote:That's not entirely true.

A high capacity 5400RPM drive can perform more quickly for sequential access than a low capacity 7200RPM drive, because the higher areal density makes up for the difference in rotational speed. It's highly dependent on the specific drive though, i.e. a 2TB drive with 4 platters has lower areal density than a 2TB drive with 3 platters.

Thanks for backing me up here. Its true, many of the larger 5400 RPM drives outperform the smaller 7200RPM drives, and are MUCH faster than the older smaller 5400 RPM drives that many complain about being so slow. As my original post stated, without knowing which (likely Samsung) model drive is in this we can't tell for sure how fast this one is.

If you really want a great performance increase, get a SSD drive. Going from a larger 5400 to same size 7200 drive usually doesn't give the same considerable performance increase that it used to with the smaller drives.

livelite wrote:Getting OSX on it might be harder, but Ubuntu should run great on it. It's my top choice OS.

Yea, I'm grabbing a couple of Win7 copies when they go on clearance and then I will install on any PC I buy again for a couple of years. Most likely after that will go to Ubuntu and OSX, even though I don't like Apple, Win8 is even worse. I run Ubuntu on my netbook even though it came with windows 7.

ThunderThighs wrote:Woot! Clue! Starts in about 10 minutes!

YaY!!!

hold on let me grab my game face

it's a Roomba, isn't it?

no more posts about the laptop! i meant it

anybody want a peanut?

ThunderThighs wrote:Woot! Clue! Starts in about 10 minutes!

Mr. Plum, in the conservatory, with the candlestick!

ThunderThighs wrote:NO CHEATING!!!!!

Playing the odds. ;)

miken927 wrote:Mr. Plum, in the conservatory, with the candlestick!

TMI, dude. TMI !!

miken927 wrote:Mr. Plum, in the conservatory, with the candlestick!

No, it's Ms. Scarlet, with the rope in the conservatory

ThunderThighs wrote:So do I. My goal is to get the game past 11:15 pm and possibly 11:30pm.

Uh oh, Ima feared.

ThunderThighs wrote:So do I. My goal is to get the game past 11:15 pm and possibly 11:30pm.

not with the super sleuths around!
go go gadget solve!