Samsung Series 7 Gamer laptop hits US shelves for $1,900

Matthew DeCarlo

Matthew DeCarlo

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First unveiled at CES 2012, Samsung's mobile powerhouse is now available in the US with a starting price of $1,900. Designed with feedback from PC gamers, the Series 7 Gamer...

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amstech

amstech

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My initial impressions are pretty good, I like it!
Gets right to the point as a gaming laptop should... good hardware, great sound, no extra crap most people don't care for that jacks the price up.
Couple notes:

1) For that price they couldn't include a 120GB SSD or something along those lines?
2) When DELL started putting the JBL 2.1 speaker and subwoofer in their laptops others have been copying them ever since. I have that setup in my L702X and its amazingly crisp, clean and loud for a laptop (pending the source).

Overall not bad though, Samsung has a good following I can see this laptop selling well if the price isn't too ridiculous. You only need so much power to game at 1080p/900p.
 
Jad Chaar

Jad Chaar

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Yeah it needs an SSD and 660M SLI for that price, the 675M is just a fancy name for GTX 580M, while the 660 is a 28nm which makes it better performing
 
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Guest

Can someone explain to me what the point of ~$2k gaming laptops is? If I want to play games, I want to do it on a nice desktop 27, 30, 37 inch monitor. If I want to play on the couch, I'll get a console and if I am travelling for business on a plane or in a hotel room and I have nothing to do, I'd rather play games on the new 3DS + PS Vita. For $2k, I can buy both portable consoles and a crap-load of games for them. Not to mention when next generation of games launch, this laptop if worthless since it can't be upgraded and you'll have a $2k paperweight for gaming and have to go out and buy another one of these in 2014....and then 2016, then 2018, etc.
 
Matthew DeCarlo

Matthew DeCarlo

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Guest said:
Can someone explain to me what the point of ~$2k gaming laptops is? If I want to play games, I want to do it on a nice desktop 27, 30, 37 inch monitor. If I want to play on the couch, I'll get a console and if I am travelling for business on a plane or in a hotel room and I have nothing to do, I'd rather play games on the new 3DS + PS Vita. For $2k, I can buy both portable consoles and a crap-load of games for them. Not to mention when next generation of games launch, this laptop if worthless since it can't be upgraded and you'll have a $2k paperweight for gaming and have to go out and buy another one of these in 2014....and then 2016, then 2018, etc.
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I think you know what the point is, but because it doesn't fit your lifestyle, you want to believe it's irrelevant for everyone. A few notes:
  • Just because you prefer playing games on a big screen doesn't mean everyone does.
  • Even if that were the case, they could hook a gaming notebook up to a hotel's TV. Viola.
  • Just because you'd rather play 3DS/Vita games when traveling doesn't mean everyone would.
  • Just because you can't afford (or can't justify) $2k for a notebook, doesn't mean nobody can.
  • Just because you think spending $2k on a notebook every few years is silly doesn't mean it's true.
So to answer your question: $2k notebooks like this are for people who want to play PC games on a mobile system and can afford it.
 
Raswan

Raswan

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Matthew said:
Guest said:
Can someone explain to me what the point of ~$2k gaming laptops is? If I want to play games, I want to do it on a nice desktop 27, 30, 37 inch monitor. If I want to play on the couch, I'll get a console and if I am travelling for business on a plane or in a hotel room and I have nothing to do, I'd rather play games on the new 3DS + PS Vita. For $2k, I can buy both portable consoles and a crap-load of games for them. Not to mention when next generation of games launch, this laptop if worthless since it can't be upgraded and you'll have a $2k paperweight for gaming and have to go out and buy another one of these in 2014....and then 2016, then 2018, etc.
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I think you know what the point is, but because it doesn't fit your lifestyle, you want to believe it's irrelevant for everyone. A few notes:
  • Just because you prefer playing games on a big screen doesn't mean everyone does.
  • Even if that were the case, they could hook a gaming notebook up to a hotel's TV. Viola.
  • Just because you'd rather play 3DS/Vita games when traveling doesn't mean everyone would.
  • Just because you can't afford (or can't justify) $2k for a notebook, doesn't mean nobody can.
  • Just because you think spending $2k on a notebook every few years is silly doesn't mean it's true.
So to answer your question: $2k notebooks like this are for people who want to play PC games on a mobile system and can afford it.
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That's a lot nicer than I would have put it :)
 
Trillionsin

Trillionsin

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In my opinion an SSD wouldnt be worth it. ...well, long story short

I'd want at least a SSD larder than 200GB, because I use to have a 120GB SSD on my desktop, and I could only have a few games installed at a time. Whenever I wanted to install a new one, I'd have to uninstall one of the others. Now I have a 240GB SSD, and I currently only have 67GB free... only a few more games... but at least at this point, I will get tired of a game by the time I want to install another game.... a 240GB SSD swap for a 750GB or 1TB MIGHT be okay... but here's my other problem. I told you guys I had an SSD in my desktop computer right? Well, I have about 250GB of music, and 500GB of videos on other internal hard drives. I have a total of 2.5TBs in my desktop. Of which I would want to carry around the music, and some of the videos... at this point, I'd be running into the problem like with the 120GB SSD.

Anyways, long story short... I would prefer to have a 1TB or greater for this price on a laptop.
 
Trillionsin

Trillionsin

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Long story short...

I meant to say, I actually have something like 3560GBs in my desktop, a total of 5 drives.
 
Darth Shiv

Darth Shiv

Posts: 2,141   +741
Trillionsin said:
In my opinion an SSD wouldnt be worth it. ...well, long story short

I'd want at least a SSD larder than 200GB, because I use to have a 120GB SSD on my desktop, and I could only have a few games installed at a time. Whenever I wanted to install a new one, I'd have to uninstall one of the others. Now I have a 240GB SSD, and I currently only have 67GB free... only a few more games... but at least at this point, I will get tired of a game by the time I want to install another game.... a 240GB SSD swap for a 750GB or 1TB MIGHT be okay... but here's my other problem. I told you guys I had an SSD in my desktop computer right? Well, I have about 250GB of music, and 500GB of videos on other internal hard drives. I have a total of 2.5TBs in my desktop. Of which I would want to carry around the music, and some of the videos... at this point, I'd be running into the problem like with the 120GB SSD.

Anyways, long story short... I would prefer to have a 1TB or greater for this price on a laptop.
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Running a Vertex 3 240GB in my Dell XPS 15 (Sandybridge) and it is absolutely fantastic. Would not go back to a spinning disk. You have to be a little more conservative on what media you copy onto it, sure, but the performance increase is brilliant. I'd upgrade the HDD in that gaming laptop in a heartbeat.
 
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ebolamonkey3

Posts: 57   +0
Guest said:
Can someone explain to me what the point of ~$2k gaming laptops is? If I want to play games, I want to do it on a nice desktop 27, 30, 37 inch monitor. If I want to play on the couch, I'll get a console and if I am travelling for business on a plane or in a hotel room and I have nothing to do, I'd rather play games on the new 3DS + PS Vita. For $2k, I can buy both portable consoles and a crap-load of games for them. Not to mention when next generation of games launch, this laptop if worthless since it can't be upgraded and you'll have a $2k paperweight for gaming and have to go out and buy another one of these in 2014....and then 2016, then 2018, etc.
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It's nice for LAN parties and going to play at friends' houses. Much better than lugging a desktop around :)
 
avoidz

avoidz

Posts: 460   +59
I mean it's nice tech and everything, but playing any new games on my fairly decent laptop feels like it's gonna burn a hole in the keyboard.
 
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Zchelter

Guest said:
Can someone explain to me what the point of ~$2k gaming laptops is? If I want to play games, I want to do it on a nice desktop 27, 30, 37 inch monitor. If I want to play on the couch, I'll get a console and if I am travelling for business on a plane or in a hotel room and I have nothing to do, I'd rather play games on the new 3DS + PS Vita. For $2k, I can buy both portable consoles and a crap-load of games for them. Not to mention when next generation of games launch, this laptop if worthless since it can't be upgraded and you'll have a $2k paperweight for gaming and have to go out and buy another one of these in 2014....and then 2016, then 2018, etc.
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I won't bring my heavy bulky desktop (I know it is powerfull) just to play Modern Warfare, Skyrim, Battlefield during my traveling or LAN parties,

I won't get same experience when playing Modern Warfare, Skyrim or Battlefield on PSP Vita or N3DS, and I don't think they have those titles,

I can play my Online game, World of Warcraft, Rift, and similar everywhere using my Laptop and 3G USB Modem, 3DS or PSP Vita won't be able to do that,
 
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Guest

Pricing is excellent considering the only other options are from brands like alienware that charges a good few benjamins more. Samsung computers are awesome since they make almost every component in-house.
 
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Guest

Specced the same laptop as an Alienware M17X on Dell's website, its 2274. Guest Samsung turns out the winner.
 
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