welcome to an unboxing with no boxes
whatsoever uh Samsung was recently here in Richmond for the tech fair and they
left behind a couple of their notebooks so I figured what the hey we might as
well have a look at them right here in front of me I have the 530 u4 and the
530 u3 these are 13.3 in and 14in models
respectively from Samsung's three series
of notebooks so while this is not necessarily the same kind of uber
premium that you're going to see on something like a Samsung 9 series which
we also did an unboxing of of their 9 series Ultra Book it's still pretty
respectable when it comes to the form factor as well as the battery life so
let's start with the 530 u4 which is this guy right here this guy has up to a
1 TB Drive depending on the configuration you go with and what's
cool about it is it includes a 16 gig High uh SSD that they're using uh Intel
SRT technology in order to accelerate the storage on I'm a huge fan of SRT
technology so I'm really glad to see that included in terms of the overall IO
oh right 14-in screen which is running at 1366 X 768 resolution in terms of IO
you got your power you got your hinged Ethernet port very cool two USB 3.0
ports VGA HDMI and a combo headphone
microphone Jack out and on the other side you have an optical drive which is
tough in this kind of a form factor USB 2 as well as an SD card
reader nothing really that sort of
special on the bottom of the unit I don't know why I was expecting to find
anything there on the top you got speakers your standard sort of chicklet
keyboard as well as a fairly large trackpad with dedicated left and right
buttons this piece right here is actually made of aluminum which is kind of nice cuz it means it's less prone to
wearing out and looking really gross although not as uh not as good at that
as glass which we saw in one of the recent HP Envy notebooks that we took a
look at got your webcam and that's pretty much it so stepping down to the
530 u3 model this one doesn't have an
optical drive so you still see two USB 2.0 ports an SD card reader on the other
side you got your hinged Ethernet power USB 3 HDMI as well as a combo audio port
and one of those adapter VGA ports you'll have to buy the adapter if you
want to use that but at least you have the option um the u3 is actually a
little bit thinner than the u4 now they both have uh what Samsung says is
brighter than normal screens so these are 300 nit screens and they're both
using dual core ulv processors um oh
another cool thing now compared to most entry-level notebooks these days which
are using glossy screens these are both using matte finished screens now the the
u4 comes with an hd75 50m graphics card
whereas the u3 comes with Intel integrated HD graphics and it also
doesn't have the hybrid SSD hard drive
thing going on for it either let's just see if there's anything sort of okay
yeah I don't know why I did that again wasn't really expecting to find anything
there both of them have aluminum tops that look quite nice and I think that
pretty much covers it so uh this is basically what you would look like
carrying around oh oh you know what here I should show you guys so it's in sleep
mode now this is uh this is pretty cool it wakes up really really
fast I wonder if the battery died oops
actually give me a second here guys so yeah my bad guys this laptop is not set
for whatever reason um this was used in the trade show so it's possible someone
was playing around with it to come out of sleep when you open the lid so I'm
going to show you guys how quickly it resumes from sleep now
there it takes that long