Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #253 in Personal Computers
- Color: Titan Silver
- Brand: Samsung
- Model: NP350V5C-T01US
- Released on: 2012-10-26
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.29" h x
9.50" w x
14.60" l,
5.51 pounds
- CPU: Core i7-3630QM 2.3 GHz
- Memory: 6GB DDR3 SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 500GB
- Graphics: GT 640 2unknown-units
- Processors: 4
- Display size: 15.6
Features
- 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7-3630QM
- AMD Radeon HD 7730M 2GB Graphics
- 6 GB DDR; 500 GB HDD
- 15.6-Inch Screen
- Windows 8
Samsung Series 3 NP350V5C-T01US 15.6-Inch Laptop (Titan Silver)
Product Description
The Series 3 combines power, efficiency and ingenious lightweight mobile design. Featuring exclusive innovations like Fast Start and PowerPlus technology, the Series 3 keeps you powered up, moving, and connected wherever you go—every day.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
58 of 59 people found the following review helpful.
Great value laptop for playing games!
By FatherOfTwo
My wife wanted a laptop that could play World of Warcraft. We normally play on desktop computers with high performance video cards, so laptops have historically been a disappointment. This year, she requested (for Christmas) a laptop that was capable of playing WoW so that when she is upstairs with the kids she has something more fun to play than solitare and more entertaining than watching Barney or Sesame Street on television.I shopped around, but honestly knew very little about laptops. I have always custom built my own gaming PCs, but laptops were never on my radar. And gaming laptops can get very expensive.I saw this Samsung on Amazon and was impressed by the price. The KEY feature is the included Radeon HD 7730M video card. If you want to play video games, you must have a 3d graphics card. The built-in Intel HD graphics card is great for anything else, but for playing video games good luck.I was skeptical about Windows 8. I still am, I suppose, but I've heard such horrible reviews that I almost didn't buy this laptop. I took a chance, and honestly within about an hour or two I find myself using it just fine. I've already connected to our printer, network drive, installed World of Warcraft, etc. It was pretty painless. I'm not sure I like it better than Windows 7, but it seems to work just fine.IMPORTANT NOTE: This laptop has two graphics cards. It took me an hour of playing around with graphics settings to figure out how to "switch on/enable" the Radeon card. This made a massive difference in performance. The Intel HD card struggled to play World of Warcraft at "Good" settings, and the laptop became very hot to the touch. When I finally figured out how to enable the Radeon card, I was able to bump the graphics to "High" and I even turned on 4x anti-aliasing. I'm getting 25 frames per second, and the laptop doesn't feel nearly as "hot." It is very important to configure this setting or you will be disappointed and you won't know why. One annoying thing about computers is that it is sometimes difficult to tell how the hardware is being used. This is the primary reason that I wanted to post this review right away (I wish I could have read this before I bought it.)They key detail that isn't obvious: Right-Click on the desktop, select "Configure Switchable Graphics." Everything else is relatively obvious.Here is a tip: Turning on anti-aliasing in a video game is a good way to "test" if your graphics card is working. You should get similar frame rates either way. With the Intel HD graphics adapter, anti-aliasing destroys your performance.Bottom line: This laptop is great for the price. Windows 8 was a pleasant surprise. I don't hate it, and it seems to work just fine. It really isn't that different from Windows 7 once you get used to it. This laptop DOES have a Radeon graphics card. It seems to work just fine. It can play World of Warcraft with High settings and 4x anti-aliasing. Not bad. Plenty for what my wife wants/needs. Note: I couldn't update the driver from the web. The generic Catalyst drivers say the hardware is incompatible, "check with your hardware manufacturer." Hopefully this doesn't become a problem in the future. For now, the drivers seem to work just fine, but it is slightly troubling that I can't update them manually.In case you are wondering how I posted this review before Christmas: I didn't want to wait until Christmas to give this to her. I didn't want to take any chances (I wanted plenty of time to find something that works -- what if I needed to send it back?) Plus, with the long Thanksgiving weekend, now she can use it and have fun right away. My wife is pretty awesome, I'm glad she now has a laptop that works well.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Pretty good deal
By justaslacker
I've owned this laptop for about two weeks now and I can say that I'm pretty happy with the purchase. I hate investing in computers, seeing how new processors are released every 3 months, that's why I did a lot of research and compared dozens of models before committing to this one.So let's start with the good stuff first:- Intel i7-3630QM, quad-core processor 2.4 GHz with Turbo Boost technology to 3.4 GHz, released in Q3 2012.- Two graphics cards: the built-in Intel HD Graphics 4000 and the dedicated AMD Radeon 7730M with 2 GB (performances similar to the NVIDIA GT 640M).- Being able to choose which applications use the dedicated graphics card to help save battery.- Being able to only charge the laptop 80% to extend the laptop's battery life.- The HD screen, with native 720p resolution.- Assassin's Creed 3, Hitman Absolution and Far Cry 3 run on high and ultra.Now the bad stuff:- The HDD on SATA II with 5400 rpm is pretty outdated. This was probably my biggest disappointment about this laptop, but I'm planning on investing in at least a Hybrid SSD.- 6 GB of RAM seems a little bit cheap on Samsung's part, but considering a new 4 GB dim is $20, whatever.- The numpad. I can't see how this is useful, unless you're an accountant.- I'm OK with the keyboard not being backlit, but what I find annoying is there's not even a small LED on the Num Lock and Caps Lock keys. I think that's a little detail that would have raised the overall quality and look of the laptop.The one problem I did have and upon doing some research it turned out this is a problem with all Samsung models, not this one in particular: the mouse pointer freezes when using the touch pad from time to time for a few seconds. Mine did it while installing games for example and the HDD was going at max speed, but I don't think this is a general rule. If I also had a mouse connected at the time, the mouse would work while the touch pad was still frozen. Not a show stopper, but irritating for sure. So what I did was a system refresh (Settings -> Change PC Settings -> General -> Refresh your PC without affecting your files). What this does is basically restore the system to a fresh Windows 8 install. So all the applications/drivers you or Samsung installed will be removed, but the pictures, videos, music and downloads will not be affected. This is probably overkill and just removing the touch pad driver will fix this issue, but I simply wanted to get rid of all that stuff since it was slowing down the laptop. Now I get boot times around 5 seconds long, compared to 30 seconds - 1 minute.Overall a good buy.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Wifi issues
By Ameen Walker
This isn't a thorough review.The specs are amazing and when sold for $749.99 it is definitely a steal, however, there are issues: The mouse pad will occasionally freeze(solved using an external mouse), hibernation or sleep mode will sometimes fail and cause the laptop to restart(boot ups are quick luckily), and most annoyingly the wifi card would shutdown/crap out every now and then, usually when I'm running desktop. By crapout I mean it will stop detecting any wifi signals regardless of distance, normally solved by restarting the laptop even though this is only a temporary solution. Until today restarting worked, since yesterday my laptop wasn't picking up any signals whatsoever, even when restarted it was still out, My only solution was to do a system refresh. It now works after the system refresh but this is a big concern. I'm going to contact support.UPDATE 1/22/13: While this problem may only be occuring with me, I believe that the wifi lockout issue only occurs when at a great distance away from the router. So the wifi should operate normally in apartments or dorms, or when you're within a 4 bar distance. It occurs mostly around 3 bars.UPDATE 1/23/13: Nevermind. Even within close proximity of the router(5 bars) after a given time, albeit more extensive then when further away, the wifi anttena lockedout/crapped outUPDATE: 1/26/13: For 3 days now there has been no issue, assuming that maybe the updates to windows have done something. Still some issues with the Hibernate mode, but otherwise this laptop is great. So far, so good.UPDATE: 1/31/13: Had to lower the score back at 3 stars because the issue has happened again and I'm not doing ANOTHER SYSTEM REFRESH AND RE_DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING AGAIN!!! Hopefully over time this issue will resolve itself.So during troubleshooting my laptop has resolved the issue on it's own and I have now discovered the issue. The wifi adapter would randomly disable itself, and to solve this you have to right click the internet connection/wifi icon > open network and sharing center > click change adapter settings in the left panel > right click the router and click enable.UPDATE: 2/15/2013: Some wifi issues still persist, and I don't know of anyway to solve this other than restarting your system. The computer will also fail to start up properly sometimes, and momentarily freeze during use regardless of an i7 processor.
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