welcome to a very exciting unboxing Samsung's fairly new at the gaming
notebook game however they've been doing notebooks for a while and they're
obviously very experienced when it comes to a lot of aspects of it especially
manufacturing so I'm very excited to check out the English side of the
packaging here on the 700 series 700 NP
700 g7c this is the S01 and the particular
spec is it is a 17-in notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium a core i7 3610 qm
this is an ivybridge CPU hence the three at the beginning of the part number a
17.3 in full HD 400 nit LCD screen a GTX
675m with 2 gigs of gddr5 so that is not
your grandmother's graphics card 16 gigs
of DDR3 memory as well as a blue oh it
has a Blu-ray player cool gigabit Lan as well as a 2.11 abgn and Bluetooth 4.0
this is a black gaming notebook it has an illuminated keyboard and I believe it
also has a 1.5 terabyte drive inside it so let us take
a look see at what we will find first we
have accessories in a very plain brown box that uh oh this this is
um not what I would have typically expected to find in terms of sort of
packaging strategy this is a very strange
shape I'm really not sure what they were
going for here yeah know I know that slick but I just don't understand how
this fits in here okay well no see that didn't even
go in there no it
doesn't yeah even even then I really don't see
it okay forget it um so anyways we have
a power brick which is a pretty substantial power brick it's a GTX 675
so it's yeah pretty pretty significant so how
many uh 19 Vols 10.5 amps is what they
want for this guy got a power cable not a whole lot in terms of
accessories although that's pretty much to be expected and it's not much that
goes with a notebook we've got a battery standard battery pack battery cells made
in Korea and assembl in China 89 wat hours or 5900 milliamp hours okay
that's valid okay get started with Windows 7
don't forget guys if you buy a notebook today um you can get a Windows 8 Upgrade
for nothing or no not for nothing for 15 bucks us or something like that so don't
worry about buying a Windows 7 notebook today and not uh being able to run
Windows 8 when it comes we got nice Soft Cell foam here again it's a very strange
shape why is it Bo like that see that see how it's bowed why is it
bow see this one's bowed too see look at
it did they like like did they save money on the foam by like having
slightly less foam here very
strange I mean either way the notebook arrived in one piece so we can't really
complain if the notebook was you know in
several pieces then we would definitely definitely complain
ooh that's very nice actually check this out so this is a very unique finish now
Samsung isn't new to the whole brushed plastic thing so brushed aluminum
looking plastic however this one has a glossy layer on top of the brushed
plastic look with their Samsung logo right there looking pretty nice as well
this is actual aluminum right here so that is an actual brushed aluminum
finish right there although I'm usually a bigger fan of just the plain brushed
plastic for a number of reasons including their being EAS e easier to
clean for a gaming notebook even this is a lot of cooling huge cooler here huge
cooler on the other side even on ASUS's G Series I've seen them have two big
vents at the back but one of them is actually just a dummy vent and there's nothing actually in it in terms of heat
sinks no this one is serious business about the cooling because this is again
not your grandma's notebook she can't lift it it is a gaming notebook it is
pretty heavy and it is pretty thick so there's the old iPhone comparison that
you guys are so fond of and uh let's see what else we got going
on here so uh should we Boot It Up first or should we here let's put the let's
put the battery in really quick so the battery goes
here okay locks into place all right
let's flip her over oh let's see what we've got in terms of uh easy
upgradeability so these ones look like they don't come off too easy this one
looks like it comes off pretty easy so I see uh yeah I can't tell what what I see in
there so let's flip it back over Okay so
let's boot her up let's see how much of a charge comes on the battery ooh look
how nice it is I'm very fond of
this maybe I'll get one for my birthday probably
not let's go ahead and take all the plasticky bits
off look at that backlit keyboard that is
gorgeous
all right so while it's booting up we can have a look at what we've got in terms of oh man look at that
here sorry I'm like getting ahead of myself here but look how awesome that is
can you see how awesome it is dead sexy
very bright very nice okay all right I/O
so there's your Blu-ray Drive there's your USB 2 Port here's another more
different USB 2 Port this knob right here is for gaming mode balance mode uh
energy saving mode and then I think that's probably normal mode so you just go like that to switch between all the
different Power modes it's pretty cool so we're going to put it in Balance mode
for now okay on the front we find not a whole lot other than in power LED as
well as a hard drive indicator LED on oh no I don't think that's what that is at
all I don't know what that is okay moving right along we've got on the back
ventilation and on the left the bulk of
our IO so here we find our Kensington lock our power input our gigabit Lan VGA
HTM and DisplayPort lots of different options here two usb3 super speed ports
a an SD card reader microphone and headphone jack so that is a very vibrant
display as well viewing angle is not bad color doesn't distort too
much actually that's not bad at
all my language is definitely English so let's go with that okay you cannot
change your language later haha um so let's go
demo press next uh type a password okay
look away
uh okay and
hint that's not a very good hint at all
okay I accept the license terms which I have of course speed read through really
fast because that's an important part of uh making sure that you accept license
terms properly okay so here we go so we've got lots of different sort of like
sexy stuff going on in here that like apparently like it's like muted now or I
don't know is this like a wheel or we'll have to figure that out okay so we got
speakers here we got like turbo buttony thing going on here there's our hard
drive indicator LED there's our caps lock indicator power buttons here uh
more speakers here and what happened to that backlit keyboard it looked so good
oh there we go oh my goodness touch sensitive buttons so sexy so that's your
is that your mute button I don't know but I like this one oh
yeah so cool Okay so we've got lots of different hot keys with the function so
brightness up down looks like control panel external display turning the
touchpad off um apparently it has software on it that will automatically
turn the touchpad off and turn the Windows key off if you're playing a game
so I don't know how well that works cuz I haven't tried it but uh this looks
like it's probably the keyboard LED backl how bright do you want it or how
not bright do you want it given that all the software isn't
loaded like probably all this functionality isn't necessarily working yet that's something to do with fans and
that's turning Wireless on and off although there is a dedicated button for
that as well so why don't we give it a few minutes to boot up here and then
we'll uh come back to this so we took this off to find out what was under it
not realizing that it was of course clearly labeled Optical hard drive and
memory um so down here check this out
we've got two memory dims each of these are four gigs so that means there's
probably two more under the keyboard that's a very common configuration and
then we've got two hard drives you can also remove the optical drive with this screw right here so you could actually
remove one of these 750 gig drives which are yeah probably in raid zero I would
assume although that's the least wise possible thing to do in a notebook my
personal opinion I would go with an SSD and a hard drive for mass storage um but
yeah so I take one of those out throw it in an external enclosure and uh you know
get yourself a 750 gig drive out of the deal and then install your OS reinstall
your OS onto an SSD drive that is the
way to go I love notebooks that have
multiple hard drive installations that is one long screw um because it gives
you the option to have the best of both worlds SSD and HDD so we have the system
I think pretty much booted up thank you but we're good uh set the touchpad and
Windows key game option modes okay that's cool gaming mode dial brilliant
graphic card fast booting okay all right
so they actually that is a very cool desktop background but this is not a
cool Mouse po pointer yeah Samsung just no you may not
do that um okay let's try some more the buttons
and stuff uh so let's try the turbo
button um okay we'll have to find out how that
works so let's finish up the physical attributes of it there's your microphone
so if you were say for example webcamming it up with somebody with the
included webcam then you could make sure that you sort of talk sort of close to
that that would be good okay all of these buttons are working now that we're actually loaded into the OS so you can
see brightness goes up and brightness goes down keyboard brightness actually
this will be more evident with the lights a little bit lower in here
keyboard brightness can also be turned up or
down there you go so it's all the way down and it's all the way up and all the
way up looks really good so cool okay um
moving right along turbo it turns out is just like um an LED okay this does mute
it okay so you can see over here mute not
mute okay uh the wireless one okay all of that stuff seems pretty good built-in
full keypad uh full um number pad
honestly the keyboard feels pretty good there's very little Flex to it and the
keys feel really really nice the system also seemed really responsive and I was
kind of going to Slick I was like well does it have an SSD cache oh looks like
they have these configured not in raid so just two separate drives and then
they're using they are using an SSD cache to cash the boot drive so there's
8 gigs of SSD cach uh which you can see
here from a Samsung issd so that's
really cool love to see that SSD caching is awesome and it should be used
absolutely everywhere yeah yeah don't worry I haven't forgotten um nice big
touchpad left and right buttons all of this is pretty much to be expected and I
think that pretty much covers it in terms of you know overall build quality
feels really really good actually um the weight's a little high but what can I
mean it's a gaming notebook what can I really tell you so let's show you guys
the different modes here so if you switch to Balan mode you can see that
the actual desktop background does change and it goes into you know well
more of a balanced uh configuration so we switch into whatever mode that is
here let's find out what that mode is because I was sure we still had it did
you just call it Library mode mhm because I don't think that's what it is
honestly called Library mode okay Library mode guess it's for like reading
and then the last mode is eco-friendly mode which is the most power saving one
so if you're in Balance mode the uh silence button actually works so if you
go here and here you can go into silent
mode which incidentally makes it run very quiet now we're going to turn
silent mode off and I'm going to show you guys like the coolest thing ever check this out so we're going to go back
into gaming mode hold on hold on you have to watch me hit the switch well no
just go back more so they can see everything see I'm going to hit the
switch oh it's muted okay we have to oh
we have to do it again okay so we go back to balance
mode and then here hold on let me turn it up dramatic
pause a yeah gaming mode by the way your
battery might run out quickly if you don't plug in AC power and game mode and you actually play games so that sort of
goes without saying so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
at Samsung Series 7 gaming notebook
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