Introducing The 2013 Series 7 Chronos with AMD HD8870M!

The only similar issues ive heard about are from a guy who posted youtube videos that isolated his sleep problems to the installation of ati catalyst drivers instead of going with those that come with the unit or are updated through the samsung update app. When I very first got mine the wifi was running slow downloading benchmarks but once I installed the windows update that cleared up.

 

I suggest to restore your system using the recovery partition, if this doesn't solve your issues you can proceed for return.

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There's a button on the keyboard to change the keyboard brightness.

 

Turn up the brightness using the function keys; there's four settings. I doubt there's a way to get the backlight any brighter than that; I'd imagine the highest setting is maximum output. No registry tweak will fix that (nor is one required for just easy adjustment).

It WOULD be interesting, though, if you could fine-tune the keyboard backlight to more than just the four settings. Kind of like my old Saitek keyboards that had a dial / potentiometer that allowed pretty fine adjustments. I think it's wholly unnecessary, but would be nice in those rare dark rooms where you want a setting that's just in the middle of what's available.

 

The keyboard backlight can be adjusted LOTS of ways... FN+f9 makes it dimmer and fn+f10 make it brighter... but its also tied to the ambient light sensor which will auto adjust it unless you deactivate that... I think its tied to adaptive brightness. Also in the samsung settings app (fn+f1) there are options to turn off the keyboard backlight after a set period of time of inactivity you can set.

Btw... If you have the ambient light sensor active for the keyboard backlight and your in a dark room watching a movie on the screen that varies between light and dark scenes the backlight will blank on and off as the light changes. lol. found that out experimenting last night. So i plan to turn off the ambient light function. I saw a post a few pages ago about how to turn it off for the keyboard backlight only.

 

I have not found a way to completely turn off the keyboard ambient light setting. I already have the automatic screen brightness disabled, but I haven't found a setting to completely disable to ambient light sensor.

It's been annoying me since I got the computer, so if you figure it out that would be really awesome.

 

Maybe there really is a problem with my laptop. I tried to use recovery to go back to the factory install; 90-120 minutes later, it's stuck on the "Restarting" screen.

 

Somebody did it a while back in this discussion, but it wasn't the cleanest of solutions... something about disabling the service.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZHxxwf2bT8
In this video he play alan wake and the 22 fps looks more than playable and every thing is on high at 1080p and this is the 8770 version lol cant wait for the 8870

 

It's a rather damning indictment of how old my desktop PC is (I built it in 2005), that this past weekend, I ended up playing Mirror's Edge on my laptop instead of my desktop.

 

I'm going to Fl in a week for 2 weeks(I live in Canada) and am considering getting a 780z5e-s01ub from bestbuy and then returning it(as I am waiting for the s02, but this way I can get a feel for it/see if it's good enough for me)
Thoughts? I know this is a somewhat general question but how good is bestbuy when it comes to taking back returned goods?

 

At least in the US, it's a 30 day return policy, no questions asked, with no restocking fee. I did the same, honestly.

 

Same as in Canada then!
Let's hope it becomes available in Florida bestbuys, as it currently isn't

 

The non touch version is shown in this video

Samsung Series 7 Chronos 770Z5E-S01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASSX8b6pWB4

 

The sticker on the bottom says Windows 8 Pro, so maybe this is S02 model

 

A couple gaming tests...

Sins of A solar Empire - Rebellion
Ultra settings - Solid 60fps, it never studdered while playing.

SkyRim
Ultra Settings - 18/25fps
High Settings - 25-30fps (playable but not perfect)
High Settings with Anisotropic Filtering turned off and Antialiasing set to 4 samples - 38-44 fps. (smooth as butter).

In both cases I went into catalyst settings and set these apps to run at high performance.

Note: After running Skyrim for about 30 minutes there was definitely warm air blowing up in front of the screen and the Function Keys were a little warm. This should work fine but unless they up the cooling rig in this or throttle the GPU I think it would get really hot fast with the added heat from the 8870 gpu.

 

Great observation! Hopefully all those rumors of the 8870m model coming out around March 20th will actually come true!

 

Take II, the first time my post got eaten. Wow, just wow. I've been using my computer today, not just testing it, installing stuff and running benchmarks but actually using it and its the fastest notebook ive ever used. Since the processor and the memory are pretty similar to my previous machine (a g73sw-3de with dual 500gb momentus hybrid hds) it has to be the ssd making the difference. Crystalmark sure seems to drive home that point. Here is the crystal disk mark for my machine... stock best buy chronos model with samsung 840 ssd replacing the stock spinning platter.

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Samsung has launched , Chronos with AMD 8870 GPU in India , and will be available by 15th of this march, hope it doesn't throttle..

 

Awesome
Where'd you get this information from?

 

22 fps is far from playable. The lag is bad around that. You need over 40 to play well. 30 even lags.


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Um, it didn't get eaten.

You posted in the NP700Z5C forum: http://forum.notebookreview.com/sam...eres-np700z5c-ivy-bridge-227.html#post9109026 LOL

-Matt

 

Lol. I wonder how that happened.

 

You might want to go and edit/remove -- us old Z5C owners are doing our best to pretend the Z5E doesn't exist!

-Matt

 

Human eye can't see lag at 30fps, it's just that it dips into the 20s when 30 is the average

 

The human eye might not be able to 'see' it but in some games you can feel it.

 

Yea but it's still far from bad lag
I can play at 25fps+, but I care more about a higher frame rate than detailed textures

 

Agreed. For example Skyrim was completely playable at 25fps at high settings on the samsung w/8770 but it just didn't feel right, so I toggled down anti-alias and filtering a bit which cranked me up to 40fps. It felt more fluid, even though both were playable.

 

Sooooo stopped buy best buy, and they had this model for display. Loved every bit of it!!! I'm not into touchscreen displays and wanted to know if this could be, i don't know, turned off? Its more novelty than necessity to me at least.

 

I think it can be, however you should see if you can wait for a 770z5e as it'll be matte non-touch opposed to glossy touch

 

You can turn off the touch screen and/or touchpad easy enough... Press Fn+F1 to got to settings... then on the general tab switch to 'touch screen' and flip the switch to off. Having the touch screen off will save you a bit of battery life as well, although I find it too handy to turn off.

 

From Digit

 

I agree, here is the link

http://www.thinkdigit.com/Laptops-PCs/Samsung-Series-7-Chronos-notebook-lineup-launched_13705.html

And they say that has win 8
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In my opinion, I really don't see the point of getting this machine at its current price when the Asus UX51vz-DH71 gives much better performance every aspect you look at it and has higher built quality. It is really sleek.

Maybe I would think twice if we were talking about the model with a 8870m but since we already know that, taking into account the huge throttling reported for the chronos 17", it performs similar to the GT650m in the Asus UX51vz I think is a no brainer.

 

Well the UX51 costs more and has a worse battery (~30% less capacity).

 

I don't think it has 30% less battery.....actually it is pretty good taxing about 6-7 hours.
On top of it, Samsung for US $1300 comes with an 5400rpm HDD and plastic bottom while the UX51VZ has 2x128 or 2x256 SSD with a full aluminium body.

If you want to add the extra money for the SSD to be installed in the Chronos, go through all the risk and headache of swapping it for the HDD then is fine, just know you will be paying about the same as the UX51VZ for less performance and quality....

At least hold for the chronos with the 8870m that is expected to perform similar to the UX51VZ

 

I'd be curious to hear what you will think about "headache of swapping disks" when those crappy proprietary Sandisk SSDs will die one day after the end of the warranty...

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I considered Asus too but:

-wide spread quality problems in every aspect. bent chassis, loose display, crooked touchpad
-half the contrast of 770Z7E (bad for office work and eyes)
-fans are extremly loud
-design is outdated (doesn't look premium to me at all)
-cheapest asus version costs 1500 bucks and has less power than 8870 versions
-ssd raid 0 doubles the chances to lose data

no-go for me are loud fans. you can't simply use that in libraries or other silent places.
design is bad too, looks like a copy of the first zenbook - well, they all do.
only 4-5 hours battery sux for a ultrabook like laptop.

 

That doesn't say march 15th anywhere?

 

91 Wh on the Samsung vs. 70 Wh on the Asus. You do the math.

And even taking the SSD into account, the UX51 is still more expensive. I guess we have to wait for the 8870M international model to really compare.

 

Well, I'm more than 10 years of building my own rigs for desktops and several laptops without a glitch regarding storage solutions so that argument is as credible as the Candyman...
Of course, it might happen, not saying it can't but with 2 years full guarantee and the probability into consideration is rather, huhmmm, makes me giggle. I would be like really, I mean, really only unlucky or that you would have to sit like really tight waiting for it to ever happen.

 

Having one right now in my hands I wonder if you talk from personal experience or is this just fiction? Bent chasis? Lose display? Etc?Really?!!! I'm trying to find that on mine. I must be missing these issues or I'm extremely lucky.

 

Hyper-V can work only with Windows 8 Pro, so I don't know why someone have to try to install on the Bestbuy machine that come with Windows 8.
Why don't you use VirtualBox or VMware?

 

I wonder why you are still here, just for trolling or what?
You continue to post in this thread speaking of Asus U500/UX51 with false statement, maybe someone could read your previous posts to understand what I mean.
You have an Asus U500/UX51 enjoy with it, but your contribution on this thread in completely useless.

 

Trust me you can't play as good at 25 fps vs 60 fps. I have tried this and played very bad and had bad rounds and when I switched back to 60 fps settings, I had awesome rounds. There is a delay you can't see that will cause you to die due to lag in some games and FPS lower 30 will cause this.

 

That won't do though on games like Black Ops 2, BF3, etc. Ones that are action pack like that need higher FPS.

 

The moderator should really delete such post, it is IN NO WAY beneficial or contribute to this thread. Please, if you're happy with your purchase, then so be it. This thread is about the Chronos 7 with 8870 (which everyone eagerly await).

 

So for a week now my desktop PC has died on me and I'm doing everything from a 2008 MacBook, which has a broken battery(only works when plugged in). I'm a motion graphics designer and I really need to get back to work, but I can't do a thing on my ancient MacBook.

I've been keeping an eye on the np770z5e-s01nl from the beginning and I have been in contact with most known Dutch retailers for months now. Some weeks ago they gave me the rough estimation of a 18-03 European arrival date. I noticed some websites took the actual model down and was nowhere to be found on these websites.

Yesterday I had sent two more emails, again asking about the delivery status. I got two very disappointing responses. One of which they told me they have no clue on the delivery date, could be 2 weeks or even 2 months(or more). The other retailer which actually gave the 18-03 estimate at first, replied that he just got an 'EOL' (End Of Life) from Samsung, meaning that Samsung won't ever deliver this laptop to my country again.

However, because of this being an unreleased model, the retailer told me that he thinks the Samsung supplier guy made a mistake in model numbers and actually gave an EOL for another laptop. Anyway, he'll keep me posted about future developments and availability.

As for me, I can't wait any longer and am almost forced to buy a MacBook Pro, since there is nothing similar to it on the market(The Asus ux51vz isn't available in my country at the moment). Bummer!

 

I will upgrade to Win 8 Pro (not just for Hyper-V, need domain join) and probably will dual boot with Win 2012. Hyper-V because my server virtual environment is Hyper-V too and it makes things easier to move VMs around if all use the same hypervisor. If no-one's done it or can check the bios supports enabling virtualisation features, then I will just have to take the risk of buying it and eBay it if it doesn't work. Or buy an inferior machine!