Series 3 11.6" with i3 - np300u1a - anyone else have one?

if its 6600 mAh i think its 5-6 h with low battery use mode, and 3,5 h with high battery use mode .. I think soo..
@skydesigner <-- This 7800 mAh is replacement for this laptop, its only 30 day waranty, this 6600 mAh its original Samsung battery with 1 year waranty. I think better is to buy 6600 mAh and use it with my 4000 mAh battery together Where can I find original samsung 8800 mAh I wana have one !!

 

I didn't buy any. There were lots of cheap ones on Ebay.

 

This appears to be the original Samsung 8800mAh battery compatible also with the NP300U1A :

8850mah Battery Samsung AA-PB0TC4B AA-PL0TC6W N310 X120 | eBay

 

You think this battery you have posted wiil fit my Np300U1a ? My stock battery Rating is ( its written on the back of my battery ) DC 7.4 V <- this battery which You have posted has 7.5 V , what is the diffrence about ? Will my charger, charge this battery properlly?

heheh I want to have on, what is the life of this battery ?

 

I don´t know where to buy this battery. As I said, it was already in the box.
The battery which is in the link from GoLinux looks like mine.
But the funny thing is, that I´ve also written 66Wh on it. So they used different volt figures to calculate the Wh...

 

you can usually find user feedback on aftermarket batts on Amazon - assuming its used in popular notebooks

QUESTION: How well does this unit do on demanding video tasks, like outputting 1080p vid via HDMI to home theater rig? or Gaming [modest gaming...] ??

 

Can u explain this all Volt issue ? Whats the diffrence between 7,4 and 7,5 ?V

 

doesn't matter if its that close. i prefer to be a little over vs a little under. it does matter about wattage, but that's a smallish battery - probably 65w charger

 

Hell... I am newbie with all that stuff.. Tell me.. My charger has Input - 100-240V , 50-60 Hz 1.0A and OUTPUT 19Vdc 2,1 A
Will it charge this 8850 battery properly ? Thanks 4 help guys !

 

Try it. It's only a 40W PSU so it may take a bit longer than if you have a 65W PSU, but there won't be much difference unless you are running the computer at full power at the same time. Notebook manufacturers tend to limit the charging power to around 25W (higher power means more heat and shorter battery life). 40W - 25W leaves 15W which is plenty for moderate computer usage.

John

 

did anyone do the intel 6230 upgrade? did you see any improvement? I only see 2 internal antennae according to the pictures of the insides here: WL BLOG UNO: Samsung Series 3 Princeton Notebook 11.6" NP300U1A Review

 

I put a Corsair 8GB RAM module in my machine and it works fine. The part number is CMSO8GX3M1A1333C9, purchased at Fry's.

 

Because I get private mails from time to time, I´ll post the Model Number of my 6-Cell Battery which came with my Series 3 notebook (11").

the Model: AA-PLOTC6A

 

I think it´s useless to add a WiFi with two antennas. Although I´ve the AMD version with Broadcom Card (Wlan and BT).
one Antenna is inside the Display bezel...the other is inside under the keyboard (for bluetooth).
So I guess you wouldn´t get a much better signal and you´d loose BT...unless you´d add another antenna.

 

I thought at first that the 6230 would need 3 connectors (2 WIFI streams and 1 BT) but looking at a picture of the card I only see 2 connectors. This is why I am asking the question.

Imageshack - intel6230f.jpg

 

Are you sure that there is BT integrated? I just thout, with the 6230 you need two antennas for the WiFi itself. But one antenna is inside the body of the notebook. I guess that´s not the way it should be for WiFi.
Just my thoughts. I´m not an expert.

 

I would think you are right. I expected the 6230 to have 3 connectors - 2 antennae for MIMO wifi streams and 1 for BT. However the 6230 actually does support BT and 2 MIMO stream according to intel:
Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6230: Product Brief

This is why I am posting, I want to confirm what someone who actually did the switch only had to connect 2 antennae.

 

Hey all,

Been keeping an eye on this forum for a while now but had a quick question - Has anyone ever had a go with some of the cheaper Fleabay 6 cell batteries for these laptops?

( Battery for Samsung N310 10.1" N310-KA03 N310-KA04 N310-KA05 N310-KA06 BLACK | eBay)

Claims 6600mah with a 3 year warranty....(can always test the claims out with HWmonitor...)

Do you reckon its worth the risk?


Cheers all,
Demon

 

Jus to let you all know i ordered one of those packs -Will let you know how it fares when i receive it sometime next month!

Cheers,
Demon

 

New Laptop Battery for Samsung NP300U1A-A01US NT-N310 NT-N315 NT-NC310 7800mah | eBay

claims it is for our np300u1a - anyone bought this yet?

 

It is on sale brand new at 1saleaday.com for 349.99 + free shipping. no tax for california residents.

heres a link

 

anyone have a picture of the extended battery with the series 3? and where did you buy it?

 

Thinking of dropping in one of these:

Maximum PC | Samsung 830 Series SSD Review

Anyone sharing my thoughts?

 

Reviews are good on that drive, plus no reports in forums of it having issues. It seems to be 7mm thick, so sounds like a winner!

 

Check my post #140 and #142 in this thread. It may just be that I received a defective Samsung 830 128Gb SSD. I returned it to Newegg and got a refund. Ended up using my Intel X-25M 80Gb with 7mm modification on the Princeton Laptop.

 

crucial c-300 is awesome. watch for deals - they can be very price aggressive at times. lots of reviews from realpeople

 

anyone know of a 500 gb 7200 rpm hard drive that will fit this laptop? 7mm height?

 

I think you are currently out of luck. 320GB is the current limit in 7mm thick at 7200rpm. Packing 500GB onto one 2.5" platter is the current limit of technology and reading / writing that data at 7200rpm is currently one step too far. The transfer rates for 500GB / 5400rpm are good due to the high data density but access times will be slightly longer than with 7200 rpm.

John

 

Thanks John. I went ahead an ordered a Hitachi Travelstar 320GB 7200 RPM.

 

anyone have a picture of the series 3 with the extended 6 cell battery? Thanks!

 

i think someone already did in page 12...
http://a.slickdeals.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=721932

i'm still debating 6600mah 7200mah or 8800mah...

i'm wondering if they are actually physically different or just different size cell capacities... any advice folks?

what realistic battery life are you guys getting from 6600mah?

 

i added a 750gb drive and reinstalled windows. does anyone know how many cores should be specified in the advanced boot menu? if i check off 2, cpu-z only shows i core and two threads but the windows resource monitor shows to cpu graphs.

If i don't check it cpu z shows 2 cores and two threads but the resource monitor shows 4 cpus (2 are parked). when in this mode and on battery, my clock freq is on 798 no matter what i do.

 

Don't select the number of cores. Two cores running 4 threads is the normal arrangement.

You should be able to select a performance on demand power profile when running on battery which will allow the CPU speed to vary according to load. Did you look at Easy Speedup Manager which might be over-riding Windows power management.

John

 

thanks...how does one access easy speedup manager?

 

On older Samsung notebooks it was Fn + F something. while primarily offered as a utility to reduce fan noise, selecting less noise also reduced the CPU speed (more speed = more heat to be disposed of). check if you have that utility installed. If not, ignore my suggestion.

John

 

I just put one in over Xmas - huge difference in start-up time (around 15 secs boot time now).

I bought a 64 GB model and it turns out that the bundled Norton Ghost software can't clone a large empty disk to a smaller one despite clearly advertising so in its user guide.

I spent a couple hours tinkering around and finally got it cloned using freeware and manual registry editing. I would advise anyone against doing that - it was a royal pain in the neck. Instead just do a clean install of windows.

 

i bought this 7800mah battery, i'm getting around 4-5 hours of battery life, much better than the original battery. It's a little heavier, and pokes out of the bottom like the other picture i posted, but it's great! for reference, here is the battery i bought... New Laptop Battery for Samsung NP300U1A-A01US NT-N310 NT-N315 NT-NC310 7800mah | eBay

now i'm wondering which SSD to put in, the samsung 830 is a little too rich for me any advice for a sub $100 64GB SSD that is 7mm thick?

 

Acronis True Image Home 2011 worked for me - cloned the factory drive to an SSD before ever booting the factory drive. I did have to run Win7 Startup Repair to get it to boot - not sure if that's the registry editing you did or not. FWIW, I used Acronis' Disk Director and copied the 100MB Windows SYSTEM partition and the 50GB install partition straight across. I copied the 200-something GB "extra" or whatever it was called over to the remaining space (about 9GB on my "64GB" SSD) and left the 20GB Recovery partition uncopied (no room on the small SSD in my opinion). I marked the new SYSTEM partition active.

I got boot errors from Windows after the copy finished - can't find partition - and booted the Samsung Win7 DVD, did a startup repair and Voila! the OOBE took off and she ran. That process silently merged the two Win7 partitions (50GB + ~9GB) as part of it.

AFAIK, there aren't ANY *cheap* 7mm SSDs in any capacity - 99% of what folks recommend are 9.5mm SSDs that can be modified to fit 7mm cavities. This voids the SSD warranty, so I was hesistant - I took an old OCZ Agility II in 64GB that I had kicking around and voided its warranty instead. Would be nice to have a SATA III drive in there instead, but I'd hate to buy a new Crucial M4 with Crucial's *awesome* warranty support, and then tear it apart and void that warranty

HTH,
Richard

 

thanks Richard, when you say "void warranty" i assume you are using the SSD without the cover?

 

Sorry, to be specific, one generally has to remove, split or pierce a "Warranty Void if Removed" sticker to get those SSDs to fit a 7mm bay. In the Agility II's case that means removing the cover plate and then the PCB from the remaining 5-sided housing and using the PCB alone (with insulator of course!). No one would mistake the re-assembled drive for unmodified due to the sticker.

Richard

 

i figured as much thanks for confirming. i have a corsair v64 which i'm going to experiment on, btw, what insulator material did you use? i'm thinking foam from a box would not be great on it

 

I just got the 7800 mah for 56 dollars shipped from richbattery.com. I'll let you know how it is once I test it. I'll also take some pictures for you guys.

 

I went the quick-and-dirty route, it's a bit ghetto, but.... electrician's tape

Just made some neat rows across the back, and also across the exposed metal areas on the front, a couple of loops to stick it in place, and voila. I'm not real proud of it, but it's working

Richard

 

I am looking for this exact laptop. If anyone has one available, let me know

 

I just received the 7800 mAh battery from richbattery.com. I used batterymon and it's only reporting 5595 mAh capacity. It's about a 2000 mAh jump from the 4 cell, but nowhere near what they claimed. I'm guessing battery life will be about 5 hours now with normal usage. I sent them an email to see what the deal is. On the plus side, they are Samsung cells.

 

You could also try HWiNFO32 which will report both the design capacity and actual capacity.

Does the BIOS have a battery calibration option? If so, it may be worth using it.

John

 

I got one for my wife but she does not want it. I am in chicago if you are interested in buying

 

Does this have a 1.3mp HD webcam built in it or just a sucky vga quality 1.3mp cam in it? How's the webcam and mic in general on skype? Or during a video recording? Do your lips move at the same time as u speak? Or is there a delay? Thanks

 

Has anyone found a solution to the loose charger port issue? Is there a replacement charger that fits the hole better and/or doesn't stick out as much? It's like a hotdog in a hallway.

 

Thanks for the update! I too would be interested to hear what HWiNFO shows - assuming you're on the factory 64-bit install, you can download HWinFO64 here and run the portable version without having to install anything.

TIA,
Richard