Two stupid questions, what/where is the PM system in Woot, and are quality posts awarded on home/wine/kids site?

baillard wrote:Two stupid questions, what/where is the PM system in Woot, and are quality posts awarded on home/wine/kids site?

over there, and yes

ThunderThighs wrote:Ok, clues it is.

See how easy I am. Just don't tell everyone.

Good to know.

ThunderThighs wrote:Funny, I always try to remember to put the 's' in lowercase but missed it this time. For just that reason.

I had to catch you on it. Haha

baillard wrote:Two stupid questions, what/where is the PM system in Woot, and are quality posts awarded on home/wine/kids site?

at the very top of this page, left of woot's google search box there's an envelope. it's also just above the page links for each page individually. click on the envelope

I just noticed that TT is a "pure" black triangle all without the ability to tattle. That is quite the accomplishment!

Congratulations On that!

CowboyDann wrote:I just noticed that TT is a "pure" black triangle all without the ability to tattle. That is quite the accomplishment!

Congratulations On that!

Huh?

CowboyDann wrote:I just noticed that TT is a "pure" black triangle all without the ability to tattle. That is quite the accomplishment!

Congratulations On that!

she adds a couple points when no one is looking. and gives wootbot a rawhide to shush him up

j/k

ThunderThighs wrote:As staff, I'm not allowed to tattle on deals on Deals.

I see, thanks. Sometimes with Cowboydann it's like walking in on the second half of the conversation

ThunderThighs wrote:As staff, I'm not allowed to tattle on deals on Deals.

TT, i got prompted for a captchca. is there a way to disable that for Woot clue?

therealjrn wrote:Huh?

If you were confused on the "pure" black triangles, in deals.woot you're a black triangle if your rep is 90-100 but on all the other woot pages you need an 98.5 or Higher.

Everyone knows I'm elitist enough to think the only real black triangles are the one who are black all around woot. The rest are just imitators.

Also:

therealjrn wrote:I see, thanks. Sometimes with Cowboydann it's like walking in on the second half of the conversation

Thanks for giving me a conservative sometimes instead of a "most of the time"

CowboyDann wrote:If you were confused on the "pure" black triangles, in deals.woot you're a black triangle if your rep is 90-100 but on all the other woot pages you need an 98.5 or Higher.

Everyone knows I'm elitist enough to think the only real black triangles are the one who are black all around woot. The rest are just imitators.

Why you gotta hate on the purple/black triangles?

ThunderThighs wrote:No, I get that too.

The trick is to not send a PM anytime before the game. The Captcha is on PMs because we had spam PMs for a while.

that's weird I didn't. haven't looked at or sent/received PMs for weeks. today was also the first day ever i got prompted.
i'll just enter it, no biggie

Ordered the Samsung 4-Core i7 earlier this week. Pretty pleased to have found a Samsung Notebook at a reasonable price; however, after reading some other blog entries, I must admit, I am a little worried about the overall quality and service to a refurbished unit. I see a number of complaints....anyone willing to praise the wisdom of their decision to buy and the quality of the item received? Thanks.

So, has anyone else received theirs? Because I just picked mine up, and it's the wrong one. I was sent a Samsung RV510. Anyone else in a similar situation?

EDIT: Sent an email to RMA@woot.com, and Evan responded within 10 minutes with instructions and an apology. They're sending me a replacement and have already given me a label to send this one back. Great response and service, Woot. Thank you!

Argh I am p!ssed I missed this one... I am needing to replace my Dell Inspiron 1545 (Intel T4400 2.2ghz Dual Core, 4GB DDR2 (2x2GB), 250GB 5400rpm HDD, Intel GM45HD Integrated GPU with 256MB GDDR5 and 1280MB DDR3-shared, and Win7 Home Premium 64bit). My Dell is my web-browsing, school/work computer, and it functions fine, but it is starting to get a bit long-in-the-tooth. I was pleased with the benefits of a 16GB Readyboost Flash Drive as it seemed to "perk it up" a bit (flash drive performs at 19MBs/Write and 28MBs/Read for random 4K and maxes out the USB2.0 Bandwidth practically during sustained large reads/writes; according to my own testing...).

Samsung has been making nicer and nicer laptops IMO, and their screens are top-of-the-line, which I can attest to with my Galaxy Nexus and its >320ppi; yet, for TV's I think LG is best, and Dell Ultrasharp Monitors reign supreme for HD Video/Photo editing (workstation has 3 of them, 27" I-IPS 1440p monitors powered by 4 ATI 6970's in CFX; gaming PC uses a 27" Samsung 1920x1200p 16:10 LED-LCD 120hz 2ms Monitor with a 47" LG LED-LCD 1080p 120hz 4.5ms display wall-mounted for use with the PC for either gaming or video use).

Oops, got off topic again...

Anyway, this Samsung Laptop is a good deal at $699, but would be an absolute STEAL at $500...
Now is not really the best time to be getting a laptop anyway, with Ivy Bridge due from Intel in, what, 2 months or less? On top of that, the Kepler Architecture GPU's from NVidia are going to be hitting the street within a similar time frame, and while I generally prefer ATI(AMD) cards, the new GTX680/670/660/650 will at least make prices more competitive.

All said and done, I will be holding out on a laptop purchase until summer... Which, considering 95% of my laptop use is as a "desktop replacement", means I will be snagging up the following from MSI/ASUS/etc:
- i7-3970QXM 2.6-3.5ghz Quad-Core CPU (8MB L3 Cache and Integrated Intel HD5000 GPU for Hybrid-SLI/-CrossFireX)
- 16GB DDR3-1833 SODIMM RAM
- ATI HD7990M 4GB GDDR5 GPU
OR
NVidia GTX680M 3GB GDDR5 GPU
- 2x (RAID0) Hybrid 1TB(+40GB SSD Cache) HDDs
- 17.3" LED-LCD 1080p Screen
- HT/Creative 7.1ch THX/Dolby/DTS 192khz/32bit Audio Processing Unit

Sit it down on my CoolerMaster aluminum "modular" laptop cooler with 2 180mm moveable fans and 2-/4-port USB2.0/3.0 hub, plug in Cat6E cable from Gigabit Port on router, plug in my trusty (wired) Logitech laser mouse, and have the ultimate in semi-portable computing! HAHAHAA

Got mine! That was remarkably fast for SmartPost!
Now to figure out what needs backing up before I start uninstalling random programs that are on the default image.

slowest...laptop........everrrrrrrrr

just got mine last night. the shift keys and caps lock do not work. i don't want to send it back because they don't have any replacements. but i guess i am going to have to tomorrow, unless anyone here has suggestions.

realjamesdoogin wrote:just got mine last night. the shift keys and caps lock do not work. i don't want to send it back because they don't have any replacements. but i guess i am going to have to tomorrow, unless anyone here has suggestions.

Sorry about thatIf you haven't already, send us an email at service@woot.com and we'll give you some options.

Did anyone else get a random Samsung battery with their laptop? I can't for the life of me figure out how it would fit into the laptop.

luloo123 wrote:Did anyone else get a random Samsung battery with their laptop? I can't for the life of me figure out how it would fit into the laptop.

no random battery here. mine is working good so far. i havent really run the gauntlet on it yet. i suppose i should make a list of all the things i should check while its under warranty

Got mine about a week ago.... Smokin' fast. Just ordered a 4GB memory stick from amazon for just over $20.00 to up the ram to 8gb....

Very happy. I just wish the battery were removable and the internals were easier to get to. Most modern laptops have easy to remove hard drives so when you drop the dang thing, replacement is easy. I am not intimidated by taking this thing apart, just wish it were easier.

I am quite pissed by this laptop and Samsung tech support. I received it about a week ago. I got a wifi-n router, and my old laptop (also from Samsang) is able to detect 300Mbps wireless network, yet this new Samsung laptop can detect at most 144Mbps, even when it's right beside the old laptop. I tested streaming high-def video, and the old laptop could smoothly go up to 50Mbps data rate, yet this new laptop would stutter around 30Mbps.

After I installed a lot of software and did a lot of configuration, I decided that the wifi speed needs improvement. So I contacted Samsung tech support to ask about the wifi speed issue, and told them the above observation. They suggested me to do a "basic restore" with this laptop's "Samsung Recovery Solution" software (I guess they suspected the upgraded device drivers might have screwed up the wifi). The "basic restore" is supposed to restore just system files and device drivers. The Samsung tech support pointed me to a document of "Recovery Solution 4", but this laptop comes with "Recovery Solution 5", which is quite a bit different than described in that document. Anyway I still carried out the "basic restore", and after reboot, I found the system fonts were badly screwed. Many applications are showing blank because the fonts can't be displayed. I got a bit frustrated, and contacted the Samsung tech support again. They still have no clue what could be wrong, and suggested me to do a "complete restore". Which means I have to wipe out all software installation and configuration I had done before.

Anyway, I just did the complete restore, and found the system now looks like XP instead of Win 7. Anyway, my head would almost explode when I start thinking about installing all those software again.

I'm seriously very disappointed in this laptop and Samsung tech support. The last Samsung laptop I bought about a year ago from woot has been working great. I just thought I would need some more CPU power because of my work. Didn't expect to come across this terrible new one...