Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3202 in Personal Computers
- Color: Blue Silver
- Brand: Samsung
- Model: NP300E5C-A02US
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.14" h x
9.50" w x
14.40" l,
7.19 pounds
- CPU: Core i5-3210M 2.6 GHz
- Memory: 6GB DDR3 SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 750GB
- Processors: 2
- Display size: 15.6
Features
- Intel Core_i5_3210M Processor 2.6GHz
- 6 GB RAM
- 750GB Hard Drive
- 15.6-Inch Screen
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Samsung Series 3 NP300E5C-A02US 15.6-Inch Laptop (Blue Silver)
Product Description
Samsung Series 3 PC
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Fast i5 (2.6 to 3.1GHZ), brite display, touchpad suks
By Porkee Peeg
I give the Series 3 four stars, minus 1 for the crappy touchpad sensitivity. See Con comment below.Pros:Xlnt display resolutionAesthetically appealing to the eye; cover is brushed 'ribbed' aluminum with 2" black band at rear.Wide keys, short pressure, positive feelFull numbers keypad on rightSingle screw holds cover to memory and HDD, makes for easy swap outNo dumb WiFi on/off switch front panel, prevents accidentally switching off connectionA full pound lighter than DellStrong solid looking hingesi5-3210M Ivy Bridge, HD4000 controller works as designed3MB L3 cacheCON: The super sensitive touchpad.**First thing first; Use the touchpad to set screen size, then go to ctrl panel, Synaptics Touchpad to disable BOTH one-finger and multi-finger gestures. If you don;t this is what you can expect:1. Sensitivity -horizontal AND vertical - scrolling is at the next to last slowest speed.2. If the left palm is within 1/8-1/4" proximity of the touchpad, the touchpad shrinks or enlarges your screen on its own. Tapping an resetting screen size constantly is annoying. Mostly dues to far left placement of the pad, not centered.3. Email composes start @ 14+ font then shrinks to 10 and back and forth and back and forth all over the place. When composing the font size appears normal. When the display size changes the fonts do to but they never reset to the last display. Major bug.More CONS:1. Annoying bloatware2. Power cord on left, I prefer right3. No keyboard backlite4. OK Samsung memory, 1x4GB & 1x2GB, latency 11-11-11-28. This was swapped for new 2x4Gb sticks5. Big hunky/clunky 750GB SATA HDD. This was swapped for an SSD. Boot time is now 9 seconds. HDD being used as an external drive6. Weak/low L1 & L2 cache [256kb]7. Samsung online Chat Support is h-o-r-r-i-b-l-e. They're absolutely brainless and will waste your time. With a rating of 1 to 10, I generously give them a -10 [minus ten]. Do your own troubleshooting.8. Battery life claim is up to 6.3 hrs. Even at the lowest setting the best I can get is 4.5 hrs, as indicted in the notification bar.Don't forget to check the update page. The i5-3210M is fast for a tier 2 CPU, better than other i5's as it does turbo from 2.6 to 3.1GHZ.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Two Laptops, Both Lemons
By Joanna Ortiz
The Atheros wireless card that came installed in this laptop was defective and wouldn't hold a connection no matter what network it was connected to. I contacted Samsung and they confirmed that it seemed to be a hardware issue. I returned it and got a replacement laptop. Same issue. I did some research and these cards are just bad. It's a shame because otherwise, the computer is great, but trying to deal with the all the internet issues and hardware problems were beyond frustrating. Terrible experience.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Great for students!!
By tonyclark444
This laptop is awesome!!! I am a full time student and use it primarily for school, not gaming. It does have an integrated HD graphics card which gives an excellent graphic performance for watching videos or just browsing the web. The i5 processor accompanied with 6GB of RAM makes this laptop super-fast. Out of the box the Windows Experience Index rates this laptop at a 5.7. You can check you WEI by going into the Computer>System Properties> Windows Experience Index. It rates a 5.7 because of the Graphics card, the processor and RAM rate at 7.1 and 7.4 respectfully and the hard drive rates at 5.9. This computer has room for improvements if you want make some upgrades, upgrading the RAM to 8GB and swapping out the hard drive for a solid state will make this thing ridiculous and raise the index on it considerably, especially if you are using for the same thing that I am which is mostly school work and emails.I have always hated using touchpads on laptops until I started using the touchpad on this one. The pad is large and the so are the buttons, the pad also lets you do multi finger gestures. You can pinch to zoom, two fingers lets you scroll up and down, and three fingers lets you navigate forward and backward. You also have the ability to turn off the touchpad altogether by holding down the Fn key and hitting F5. There are many other features to this laptop that it makes it great like the sleep function when you close the laptop. The laptop is sturdy and is of good design, esthetically it looks great and the sound from the speakers is loud and clear. The boot time is under a minute, I have never timed it but it is significantly faster than my old computer. It also runs cool so no need for a cool pad.Aside from all the positive things that I have to say about the laptop there is a few negative. I have experienced some malfunction when browsing with Facebook. Sometimes when I try to navigate to Facebook the browser throws up an error and I cannot logon. This could be a problem with Facebook or the browser that I am using, either way the problem is only intermittent and is not too much of an inconvenience. I have also on occasion heard when opening a file or a link that plays audio the speakers will make small pop before playing. These are all problems that I have yet to address but I think are very fixable. All in all this is an excellent laptop for the price and is very versatile and sturdy enough to last for several years. I give it 4.5 out of 5!Manual:[...]Recommended RAM upgrade:Crucial CT2CP51264BC1067 8GB 204-PIN PC3-8500 SODIMM DDR3 (4GBx2)Or:Samsung Electronics Extreme Low Voltage 30nm SODIMM 8 Dual Channel Kit DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM MV-3T4G3D/USRecommended hard drive upgrade:SAMSUNG 830 Series 2.5-Inch 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7PC064B/WW
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