The 2012 Samsung Series 9 13.3" (NP900X3B)

[narcemea]

8GB RAM and 256GB SSD are what's holding me back... And many others, so it seems. The 128GB doesn't even make sense unless they designed it 2 years ago and haven't adapted the current market.

Tell me about it - I've got the 128. Installed:

Office Pro 2010
SQL Server Dev 2008
Visual Studio 2010
IBM RAD 8
DB2 Workbench
+10GB of other stuff

I've only go 30GB left. The C drive actually comes short 30GB I guess to hibernation and recovery partition. I'm not really all that nervous though. I get itchy when my 500GB drive on my MBP is before 150GB but I guess if you don't expect to store everything on the 128 - it's not bad especially since you don't have to worry about the SSD slowing down when filled at or near capacity.

** Gotta say I love how fast it charges. <2 hours about to get to 95%!

[trifthen]

OK folks, just ignore anything I've said about booting. My unit is clearly some kind of lemon. I can't even boot from the recovery CD.

But since I have a broken laptop anyway, how have people been with the touchpad? Mine doesn't click consistently. In fact, when the right click does work (which is like 10-20% of the time), sometimes it gets... stuck, so that every subsequent tap is magically transformed into a right click.

I'm hoping that's not normal, and won't be a "feature" in my replacement.

[loderjm]

Just got a US version from Amazon last night. Haven't had a lot of time to play with it, but like it so far. Was wondering if anyone knew if there was a way to reverse the swype directions of the trackpad. Having gotten used to a tablet, where swyping moves the contents on the screen the same direction as your fingers, this opposite direction is counterintuitive to me at the moment. The basic set-up functions in the Control Panel do not give this option.

Bought this for the screen and slimness--both of which are great. Only reason I may return it is for want of a larger hard drive, and possibly because of its average to low battery life. For the money I know I'm getting a high quality, svelte machine, but just wish it had everything. Unfortunately, there's nothing out right now that's better, aside from perhaps the Macbook Air with Windows on it. Hmmm.

[lghtwave]

Does anyone know about greenteky.com ??
They have Np900X3B for $938 but I have never heard of such site.
It says they have 5 in stock... should I give it a try with CC??

[loderjm]

OK folks, just ignore anything I've said about booting. My unit is clearly some kind of lemon. I can't even boot from the recovery CD.

But since I have a broken laptop anyway, how have people been with the touchpad? Mine doesn't click consistently. In fact, when the right click does work (which is like 10-20% of the time), sometimes it gets... stuck, so that every subsequent tap is magically transformed into a right click.

I'm hoping that's not normal, and won't be a "feature" in my replacement.

Unfortunately my right click sucks, too. I have stopped using it, in favor of a two finger tap which works without fail. I should see if I am able to boot from USB (or CD) as maybe I have a similarly dysfunctional model. Actually, will try, just won't get around to it too soon.

My trackpad otherwise works great, aside from the mental effort I need to put into it as eluded to above. I did find that scrolling in IE and Firefox was smoother/faster than it was in Chrome for some reason (enough to stop using Chrome as my default browser).

One other qualm, the webcam is pretty dark in low light, even with "low light compensation" on. Haven't tried it in normal light though.

[jj227]

Does anyone know about greenteky.com ??
They have Np900X3B for $938 but I have never heard of such site.
It says they have 5 in stock... should I give it a try with CC??

i just tried, it's very sketchy. they didn't ask for a creditcard during checkout, instead it said they will send an email asking for an amazon instant transfer, and once that is processed they will "ship" the item.. the website has no contact info, whole thing screams scam

[Pato Milan]

What software is installed by default? Is microsoft office already in it?

[lghtwave]

i just tried, it's very sketchy. they didn't ask for a creditcard during checkout, instead it said they will send an email asking for an amazon instant transfer, and once that is processed they will "ship" the item.. the website has no contact info, whole thing screams scam

lol. That's very fishy. Thanks for trying out.
Yeah, $938 is too good to be true...

[jfast]

Yeah, $938 is too good to be true...

I'm agree.

Furthermore, the domain was registered less than a month ago, there are no contact details and the payment method through amazon checkout is strange.

[matthewf123]

Samsung MZMPC128HBFU-000

Thanks, those are great speeds.


Also, regarding using Silent Mode --- I have a Series 7 Chronos which has the same toggle for Silent Mode, and I've observed that, while it does indeed either shut the fan off (and only run it when its absolutely necessary), or always run it at the absolute lowest speed (choosing either of these two modes is configurable by the user in Easy Settings), it actually clocks the whole processor down by engaging the Power Saving power profile... so be aware of this when using silent mode but wondering why your machine feels slower, depending on what you're doing at the time.