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Oh, and as for the build quality - every bit as good as a MBA, imo. It's solid, no flex in anything. No mushiness in the keyboard. Lid closes square and tight. This is VERY impressive.
Wireless signal is "excellent" and that's going thru several walls.
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I called my local BestBuy about the NP900X4C-A03US and they said if they get them today, it probably won't be on the floor until around 2 or 3pm. Wish me luck.
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I'm considering the updated vaio z as well tbh, it's a tiny bit thicker at 0.66inches, comes with quad core ivy, 8gb ram and 256gb ssd for about 1950.
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Pity that the screen appears to not be PLS, if it had been either PLS or IPS like the 13 it would have been a complete no brainer for me, guess Ill have to either have to see one in the flesh or wait for the reviews to see what sort of gamut coverage it provides.
More importantly though has anyone heard when we might expect to see the i7 256GB model ship in the UK ? the larger SSD is going to be as must for me
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The one thing that I am really dying to find out is the quality of the screen. All the other specs are pretty much perfect. Heck, it looks like this thing performs close to my main workstation laptop (Dell Dimension M6400), and that's saying something. I have never seen the famed PLS screen of the 13" model, so I don't have a direct comparison. Mine is supposed to arrive sometime after June 07, but so far I have no shipping confirmation from Amazon. We shall see...
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The problem with the NP900X4C isn't the screen. It's the price. The only flaws I can really think of now for the 15" is the lack of DisplayPort, warranty for the price, and the support channel.
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Ok, before you view, I really hate to even put these up here. I took them with Nikon P7000 and the SS9 looks washed out, but it's not at all. Maybe it's because it's so much brighter than the D630 that it's sitting beside. Both are set at 100% brightness. The latitude is *very* dark in comparison.
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My 900x4c will arrive tomorrow but I only ordered the 128GB SSD version and now I am a bit worried that it will not be enough. What is the best way to extend the space? External HDD, a USB flash drive or this SD-card thing that was descibed earlier in a series 9 thread? I think I would be fine with another 100gb or something.
I've read that SSDs don't like it very much if you fill them up completely because then only the small free part will be used for saving data all the time and therefore these segments wear down very quickly. To what extend would you fill a SSD with data?
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Thanks as well for the pics! I used to have a D620 for work.
As you said, it's hard to get a true sense of the qualityBased on the viewing angles, though, it's obvious that it is not PLS.
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I called BustBuy about the "NP900X4C-A03US" and they said they don't even see any "in transit" which usually means it they won't have it for at least two weeks.
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To those that have the "C" (I know there's one or two of you).. a few questions:
1. How's the battery life in an average day of office use (I'm a programmer)?
2. Is the screen pretty nice, despite not being the oh-so-fantastic-and-fabled PLS?
3. Is it usable outside, for example, on a sunny day at a park?
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I believe woodpile ordered his from Amazon and already received it. They currently just show 3-5 weeks on the site though.
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How do you buy one with 3 years support (in-home service, next business day)?
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MyDigitalSSD 256GB 50mm BP3 Bullet Proof 3 mSATA 6G SSD | My Digital Discount
I wouldn't worry about SSD wear and tear either. Don't go above 90% obviously, but by the time you've done 100k+ write cycles you can replace the drive for pennies on the dollar. On the other hand the battery wear and tear...
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2. Yes. Very bright. Good viewing angles. Good enough for me. I'm not picky, but this is good.
3. Haven't had it out, but I don't see why not.
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Does anyone know what the difference is between the 3C's PLS screen and the 4C's 400 nit regular screen? Viewing angle. And?
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Does anyone know when the 900X4D will be out in the UK? I assume it will have the same screen as 4C which is very disappointing as this was a very important consideration for me.
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I stopped back by my local Best Buy today and they did have the NP900X4C-A01US model on display. $1399.
The good news it does have 8gb of ram installed.
The bad news is I wasn't at all impressed by the screen.
Viewing angles were not great and certainly a major step down from the glass in my Series 7 gamer.
I loved the feel of it, size, screen size, etc. But I don't think I could justify dropping $1400 on it. They didn't have the 13 inch model on display so I couldn't compare those side by side.
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I've been wrestling with this in my head the past few days. Here we have a couple of chassis with the potential to be the top ultrabook class machines on the market but with limitations.
The 13.3" machine is limited to 4GB of memory and 1920x1080 output. Bump the RAM to 8GB and put mini DP on it, and it would be perfect. At least for me it would.
The 15" machine is limited by the screen (which is still good) and 1920x1080 output. Change the screen to PLS and put mini DP on it and it would be perfect.
By buying either, you have to accept the limitations. Limitations at these prices is a hard pill to swallow.
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I read people saying they weren't impressed by the 4C's screen, but they never go into more detail than worse viewing angle than PLS...............
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Considering buying one of these. Is there an external optical drive that can be purchased alongside? Also, does it come with any adapters?
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Because the viewing angles are excellent, you aren't constantly adjusting the LCD lid angle as you move around in your seat. This is a problem on crappy displays like my previous ThinkPad T420. The 13.3" Samsung has no such problem and the 15" is rather minor.
The 15" unit I received in mid April was not calibrated very well. As a result, the colors were a little too cool. Most people would notice this as a blueish tint. The 13.3" on the other hand was very warm and looked as good as you are going to get it, right from the factory. Calibrating the 15" screen should help quite a bit.
Both screens are very bright. 400 nits is overkill for most people. Even 340 nits was fine on the Sandy Bridge 15" units. If you work outside or poolside in the summer, the new 400 nit screen will come in handy.
The 15" screen is above average compared to the rest of the market. I am referring to the 14" market because when you step up to 15.6", there are a number of wonderful FHD screens out there from HP, Lenovo, Dell, etc.
I would not worry about the 15" screen if you aren't a photographer or video producer. The colors and brightness are plenty good for the majority of the folks out there. Specially for office productivity, surfing the web, etc.
The 15" machine is more flexible when it comes to expansion since you can bump the RAM to 16GB. With a 256GB SSD, it becomes one powerful machine but it is considerably larger than the 13.3".
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My NP900X4C arrived today. Initial impressions, love the look and feel. After having a play for an hour or two, here are my main thoughts...
Keyboard - not as bad as I thought. Shallow depth not an issue at all, but does rattle about a bit - not as refined as my Dell Latitude E6400's but I can live with it.
Trackpad - nice, big, easy to use. On the downside, I really hate the loud mechanical clunk when you click the 'buttons'. So much so, that I opted to leave the tap to click option switched on. Again, won't really be an issue as I use a wireless Logitech mouse most of the time anyway.
Screen - definitely not PLS, but on a par with the E6400's (I must have got lucky because some Dell's have awful panels, but that thing was immense).
I'm now installing my apps and will decide over the course of the evening whether or not to keep it or return it under the distance selling regulations for a refund and get another business grade such as the HP EliteBook. At the moment, my current thinking is that I will keep it.
One thing I did find annoying is the SanDisk SSD. It scores a lowly 6.1 on the Windows Index - the Intel X-25M SSD in my Latitude was tw years old and that scores a 7.6, so that's a bitter pill to swallow for such a premium machine. Does anyone know how reliable WEI scores are? I did a CrystalMark benchmark and it out-performed the Intel on Sequential Read/Write by a significant margin, but on the 128K and 512k read/write it was significantly slower.
Disk experts, any comments on this please?
Final question - recovery partition. I got a Win7 DVD with the documentation so I presume the OS can be restored from that, and it's not just a silly companion DVD to use with the recovery partition? That being the case, I will blow it away and reclaim the disk space. The Samsung utliities don't really interest me, but I can download those again if I need them.
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CowboyCoder,
Are you in the US? Who did you order from? Did you get the A03 256GB model?
Regarding the Windows DVD, it's probably just vanilla Windows 7 with no drivers for the Samsung Series 9. But you can download the drivers from Samsung.com
Or, you can make the Recover Disks using the built-in backup/recovery solution.
Samsung 15" Series 9 NP900X4C with Ivy Bridge CPU
Discussion in 'Samsung' started by John Ratsey, Mar 10, 2012.