Samsung 530U4 and 530U3 Notebooks Unboxing & Showcase Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to an unboxing with no boxes
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whatsoever uh Samsung was recently here in Richmond for the tech fair and they
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left behind a couple of their notebooks so I figured what the hey we might as
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well have a look at them right here in front of me I have the 530 u4 and the
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530 u3 these are 13.3 in and 14in models
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respectively from Samsung's three series
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of notebooks so while this is not necessarily the same kind of uber
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premium that you're going to see on something like a Samsung 9 series which
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we also did an unboxing of of their 9 series Ultra Book it's still pretty
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respectable when it comes to the form factor as well as the battery life so
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let's start with the 530 u4 which is this guy right here this guy has up to a
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1 TB Drive depending on the configuration you go with and what's
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cool about it is it includes a 16 gig High uh SSD that they're using uh Intel
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SRT technology in order to accelerate the storage on I'm a huge fan of SRT
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technology so I'm really glad to see that included in terms of the overall IO
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oh right 14-in screen which is running at 1366 X 768 resolution in terms of IO
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you got your power you got your hinged Ethernet port very cool two USB 3.0
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ports VGA HDMI and a combo headphone
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microphone Jack out and on the other side you have an optical drive which is
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tough in this kind of a form factor USB 2 as well as an SD card
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reader nothing really that sort of
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special on the bottom of the unit I don't know why I was expecting to find
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anything there on the top you got speakers your standard sort of chicklet
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keyboard as well as a fairly large trackpad with dedicated left and right
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buttons this piece right here is actually made of aluminum which is kind of nice cuz it means it's less prone to
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wearing out and looking really gross although not as uh not as good at that
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as glass which we saw in one of the recent HP Envy notebooks that we took a
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look at got your webcam and that's pretty much it so stepping down to the
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530 u3 model this one doesn't have an
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optical drive so you still see two USB 2.0 ports an SD card reader on the other
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side you got your hinged Ethernet power USB 3 HDMI as well as a combo audio port
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and one of those adapter VGA ports you'll have to buy the adapter if you
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want to use that but at least you have the option um the u3 is actually a
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little bit thinner than the u4 now they both have uh what Samsung says is
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brighter than normal screens so these are 300 nit screens and they're both
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using dual core ulv processors um oh
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another cool thing now compared to most entry-level notebooks these days which
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are using glossy screens these are both using matte finished screens now the the
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u4 comes with an hd75 50m graphics card
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whereas the u3 comes with Intel integrated HD graphics and it also
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doesn't have the hybrid SSD hard drive
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thing going on for it either let's just see if there's anything sort of okay
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yeah I don't know why I did that again wasn't really expecting to find anything
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there both of them have aluminum tops that look quite nice and I think that
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pretty much covers it so uh this is basically what you would look like
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carrying around oh oh you know what here I should show you guys so it's in sleep
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mode now this is uh this is pretty cool it wakes up really really
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fast I wonder if the battery died oops
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actually give me a second here guys so yeah my bad guys this laptop is not set
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for whatever reason um this was used in the trade show so it's possible someone
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was playing around with it to come out of sleep when you open the lid so I'm
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going to show you guys how quickly it resumes from sleep now
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there it takes that long