Gamer's 'ultra' notebook: 2013 Samsung Series 7 Chronos (cont'd)

[vision3001]

Played with this new Series 7 for few days, the whole system quite slow due to the 5400rpm hdd, if change to SSD will it void the warranty?

I did some benchmarking with different disk caching option and found the best setting.

Disabled: ExpressCache, Intellimemory, Superfetch

Installed: Supercache
Disk Cache, Hybrid Disk Cache and RamDisk

Installed: RAMDisk (allocated 3GB) - redirected all temp folder and browser cache to RAMdisk.

Have been monitoring the disk activity on a daily basis via Windows 8 Resource Monitor as well as Supercache monitor and so far so good.

Not sure if replacement of the hardisk with SSD will void the warranty... check out what others are saying in other forums.

 

[vision3001]

retail at $1999
see which shop first to start price war

They are selling at $1999 as well.

I got mine last month at Newstead Funan for $1899.

 

[vision3001]

almost all funan stores got but no price war, all steady at 1999.

Tell the 3rd floor Newstead salesperson that their first Chronos 7 customer brought a unit from them on 26 Mar for $1899 and thus they shld also sell it to you at this price.

 

[newstranger]

Tell the 3rd floor Newstead salesperson that their first Chronos 7 customer brought a unit from them on 26 Mar for $1899 and thus they shld also sell it to you at this price.

i was just there but never ask. damn. anyway could yours have been a different model cos i heard for us market there are many variation with ips screen glossy matte led lights etc.

also check out notebookcheck.com for review of chronos. not bad.

 

[vision3001]

i was just there but never ask. damn. anyway could yours have been a different model cos i heard for us market there are many variation with ips screen glossy matte led lights etc.

also check out notebookcheck.com for review of chronos. not bad.

My model is NP770E-S01SG, launched globally in 2013, and in Singapore on 25 March 2013.

 

[sojuforthesoul]

Still contemplating whether to get this, the battery life is great but I have seen some users facing gfx card issues

 

[souler87]

Saw it at bishan best denki for $1999 with free ram upgrade to 12gb. Western digital 500 hd another thing I can't rmb n 2nd year extended warranty(this laptop don't come with 3yrs wty?)

 

[fat_boyz]

Still contemplating whether to get this, the battery life is great but I have seen some users facing gfx card issues

What's wrong with the GFX card?

 

[aaron77]

I brought another adaptor... one for my office, and the other one for home.

Skip Samsung Singapore and go straight to the shops... in this case, Newstead Funan. Am not sure as of today, whether the 5 additional sets have been sold out yet.

Where did you buy the power adaptor? How much? Is it Samsung or Third party brand?

 

[vision3001]

Saw it at bishan best denki for $1999 with free ram upgrade to 12gb. Western digital 500 hd another thing I can't rmb n 2nd year extended warranty(this laptop don't come with 3yrs wty?)

HDD shld be 1TB.

$1999 with RAM up to 12GB is a great deal since one can do a 24 month interest free credit card payment!

 

[vision3001]

Where did you buy the power adaptor? How much? Is it Samsung or Third party brand?

I got it @ Samsung Support over at Toh Tuck area.

Cost $86

 

[vision3001]

Still contemplating whether to get this, the battery life is great but I have seen some users facing gfx card issues

Wonder what's wrong with the gfx card? No issue for me so far.

 

[souler87]

HDD shld be 1TB.

$1999 with RAM up to 12GB is a great deal since one can do a 24 month interest free credit card payment!

bro i mean free western digital external hardisk.. hahaha.. sorry if i din state it clearly

 

[vision3001]

bro i mean free western digital external hardisk.. hahaha.. sorry if i din state it clearly

That's a very good deal... better than the Newstead offering then.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[vaxvms]

wow best denki also cut in
hope newsteaad can give us better price

 

[vaxvms]

They are selling at $1999 as well.

I got mine last month at Newstead Funan for $1899.

did u do a furmark stress test on this machine?

 

[Keromond]

$1850 with ram upgrade to 12G.. any payment mode, this,deal ok?

 

[zXioNGz]

Is this the touch screen version?

 

[RaynorO]

I bought mine for 1999 and i told the person i dont want any freebies but change to SSD for me, and they say can change to 128gb for free, but i topped up another 150 for 256gb and it comes with 1year warrranty..

Becareful if you want to change to SSD, the back casing is very very fragile and easy to crack

 

[souler87]

$1850 with ram upgrade to 12G.. any payment mode, this,deal ok?

any payment mode including instalments?

Not a bad deal if you ask me