The Samsung ATIV Book 9 Spin's 39 Whr battery averaged 6 hours of productivity work and streaming video at 40% brightness with WiFi on. That's similar to Microsoft Surface Book 4, but shorter than the lower resolution full HD HP Spectre x360 (HP's high res x360 has similar battery life), 13' Retina MacBook Pro and Surface Book.
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Please if you're running the latest version of your browser and you still see this message. If you see this message, your web browser doesn't support JavaScript or JavaScript is disabled. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings so Newegg.com can function correctly. Model Brand SAMSUNG Series ATIV Book 6 Model NP680Z5E-X01US Quick Info Color Mineral Ash Black Windows 8 64-Bit Intel Core i7-3635QM 2.4GHz Screen 15.6' 8 GB DDR3 1 TB AMD Radeon HD 8770M 1 GB Dimensions (W x D x H) 14.75' x 9.84' x 0.97' Weight 5.38 lbs. Pros: Beautiful 1080p display Runs fast, cool and quiet No bulky DVD/CD drive Gorgeous mac-like design Backlit keyboard is very nice to use Cons: Mouse/touchpad is tricky Battery built into machine Other Thoughts: So far, I absolutely love this laptop. I bought a refurbished model here on newegg for under $700.which is an amazing price.
I've been shopping for a laptop for awhile now and finding a fast machine with 1080p resolution is very tough as the market has been flooded with low resolution displays. It didn't have any bloatware (possibly due to being refurbished), although the Windows 8.1 upgrade had some hiccups.
Make sure you visit Samsungs Download Center to get the latest upgrades for 8.1.after I upgraded my display brightness controls were disabled, but the update on the samsung site got everything working. Pros: Nice hardware. I think the hardware might be ok. But I haven't had much of chance to use it because Win 8 keeps installing updates and going into recovery mode and rebooting.again and again. Cons: Windows 8 comes installed and you need to be very careful how you upgrade it. There are two completely different tools for updating windows on Win 8.
Do not use the Win App version. Use the older Windows application version.
If it open in a full screen its the wrong one. You have to install a patch to Win 8 before you can upgrade to 8.1. If you don't you might end up wasting an entire day the way I just did. This has been a major productivity killer. Other Thoughts: Win 8 has serious challenges due to the multiple paths to upgrade but only one actually works. If you go to the Microsoft.com site to get help the site detects you are using Win8 and says you need to update from your machine. But here there are two tools.
Pick the non-Metro (none Windows App) version is essential. You need to install the patch first.
Then you can upgrade to 8.1 from the Windows App store. This is all very confusing and time consuming. I am very concerned about the amount of time I am spending on this machine. (Actually I am on a Win7 machine because the new laptop with Win8 is STILL installing updates and has been for hours.:(.
Pros: Its pretty. Cons: The problem is that its brand new and its already crashed and done a complete reset on its own. It lost all the work I did.
Win 8 started a 'installing updates' without any warning, and then it failed to complete and automatically started a recovery which never completed (several hours). It was rebooting itself periodically through this. And finally a Samsung (bios) message said that it was going into repair mode. The next morning Win8 was back but all my work was gone. How am I supposed to use this machine? Other Thoughts: I can't tell if the problem is the hardware or the software. Is this Win8's 'installng updates' failures or the hardware.
Looking on MSDN it appears that lots of people have the same issue with Win8 failing to complete updates and crashing. So perhaps I just need to install Ubuntu or Win7. I'm kicking myself now because I should have bought a MacBook Air.
Same price and I have never had this happen on my Mac Mini. Pros: The laptop is fairly lightweight and has a pretty sleek design to it. Samsung has been gearing towards a more 'Mac-like' aesthetic professional look lately and this one doesn't disappoint. The display is quite pretty with its 1080p resolution and the touchscreen is more practical for general web browsing than I originally thought it would be. The touchscreen also works quite well with Windows 8's interface.
USB 3.0 transfers are fast and there is more than enough space for the average user. Generally, it functions as a good laptop for web browsing, media, and school/business purposes. Cons: While there are some good features about this laptop, they aren't good enough given the price. 1080p resolutions are more or less industry standard as well as USB 3.0, the speakers, although decent sounding, tend to be on the quiet side and are prone to crackling, the touchscreen, although neat, is still a bit of a novelty, the battery life is a little on the disappointing side even with maximum battery life saving features enabled, coming in around 4 to 5 hours, no physical media drives, no SSD, upsettingly slow 5400 RPM HDD, and overall slow response time. Given all of this, I'm left wondering what I paid for at the current price. The things that make this laptop good can be found at much cheaper prices and the things that make it bad come as a result of it falling short where it should have excelled. The most frustrating thing was easily the slow response times which, although heavily affected by the sub-par hard drive, was still ranging in the realm of unacceptable.
A laptop at this price and with these specs should not make its user wait several minutes before it can manage to launch a web browser or use the function keys to adjust the brightness. Speaking of brightness, it was usually messed up as a result of 'power saving mode' which not only barely benefited battery life but also slaughtered the laptop's performance. Ultimately, this lead me to believe it was a problem with the Windows 8 on this particular machine. I have other Windows 8 machines and they run flawlessly, but it was not the case on this laptop. In the end, I purged Windows 8 from the laptop and installed the latest version of Ubuntu which lead to a phenomenal increase in general performance and usability. However, I would not buy this laptop again.
Pros: Outstanding hardware for the price: -You get a touch screen with great colors and contrast. Core i7 in a laptop rocks! - And most important to me: dedicated video card (FTW) The touchpad is very nice. I usually don't like using them but this one is very well designed and looks nice too - great addition Overall this is a solid laptop, not very heavy and a bunch of nice extras (hardware wise) that should keep this baby running for a long time.
Cons: Now to the dark side of this laptop:.BLOATWARE! This laptop was crawling when it arrived at my doorstep. I couldn't even run flash based websites because of the junk Samsung decided to install on this laptop.TPM - this has an integrated TPM that gets linked to Windows 8 which can be annoying. Yes it's 'supposed' to make your PC/Laptop safer but all I can see is this thing causing trouble (since I love to install software that hasn't been 'approved' by Microsoft).No Blu-ray drive. I know it wasn't advertised that it would have one but I really think that it would have been nice addition to play Blu-ray disks.Windows 8 key: This is my biggest concern. The key is embedded in the BIOS. You can't disabled it or remove it or replace it.
No matter what happens this key stays with the laptop. I can see this being a nice feature for people who have no technical expertise but for tech savvy peeps like me that's just horrible. Other Thoughts: I tried to install a fresh copy of windows 8 without the recovery or restoration image that Samsung installs onto the hard drive. However the embedded BIOS key is not something that can be used with any of the Microsoft images you can legally obtain. This windows 8 BIOS key is completely useless and only works with a special Samsung windows 8 image that any normal human being doesn't get its hands on. Samsung wants you to use the restoration image and only that image.
I would love to post the workaround to actually install windows 8 if you have bought another windows 8 key from Microsoft but Newegg's product review guidelines don't allow this:( Anyhow let me just say if you search around the net you will find it and there is nothing illegal about it - just a PITA.Hard drive: Yeah it has 1TB which is great but it's a standard low rpm laptop drive. If you decide to get something nicer (like SSD) you will be facing the same issues as described above with the embedded windows 8 key.
Either you pay Samsung to reload the partition recovery bloatware image to your new hard drive or you pay Microsoft for a new Windows 8 key and do a fresh install. Pros: -Nice Responsive touchscreen - Nice GPU and CPU combo -Amazing Speakers for a laptop -Screen is sharp with little light bleeding - Great standard mic and webcam for skype and other software that require such things.Full Backlit Keyboard is nice to type on - Alluminum body is nice - 1080P display - Runs Cool Cons: - Not very friendly when it comes to disassembly, Only RAM is easily accessible. Aluminum body and the surface in between the keys are fingerprint magnets. Screen is a fingerprint magnet ( Though this is really only noticeable when the LCD backlight isn't on very high or off) Other Thoughts: When using any Graphics intensive software make sure that the switchable graphics knows to use the discrete 8770m instead of Intel HD 4000. This tripped me up when I first ran 3D Mark and received a ludicrously low score compared the average with 8770m. If you don't see the 8770m under the dxdiag don't worry.
So long as the switchable graphics is configurable your Windows is recognizing the 8770m, though I would run speccy just to make sure that the 8770m is functional. Pros: Fast, beautiful screen, touchpad configuration is intuitive and natural, chiclet keys feel great. Cons: Stupid crapware and settings rendering OS a bit unstable, HDD is relatively slow, battery life is low Other Thoughts: It took me two weeks to figure out why the wifi was dying on my machine. After uninstalling reams of programs, updating drivers, removing intel drivers, I finally figured out that the Samsung power-saving settings were getting stuck somehow and turning the wifi off within 5-10 seconds of turning the computer on. I changed all the power management settings to leave the wifi on, and now it's fine.
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Earlier this morning I spilled some water that got on my closed Samsung Ativ Book 4 while it was off. The spilled water got on the very edge of the right of the laptop which is away from where the hard drive is placed in this model. I put it in front of a fan and let it dry off while I went to for a few hours. After I come home and try to turn my laptop on and it won't turn on, when I plug it in the screen turns on and it shows an animation of the battery filling to full with an accurate time below it for about 8 seconds and the screen starts to dim and eventually go off and even when the laptop is plugged in with the screen on the laptop won't start to boot up. Of the four status lights on the front the one second to the right when plugged in turns green, then red, then green again if that is of any significance. This laptop has a built in battery so I would need to get it replaced if it was the issue but does this sound like it could be an issue more serious than the battery?
Hello terryontherun, welcome to NBR. I have to confess I DID see your post yesterday, but didn't have any intelligent suggestions for you. So I left you hanging, hoping others might It happens surprisingly often that users report spills here. But usually it is on their keyboard, and often it is soda or other sugary stuff - which is far more damaging because it leaves residue after drying. I am surprised that water on the outside of the lid could cause so much damage on your laptop, particularly since you dried it thoroughly before turning it back on. If it was asleep (rather than off) that could explain it, since there is more live circuitry in sleep state which can be shorted.
From what you describe, something definitely took a hit. It sounds like the screen might be OK. With some luck it is just the battery, which is simple to replace.
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Indeed, you could try and physically disconnect it (by taking off the bottom cover). It could also be one of the sub-boards, which cost less than a full motherboard. In any case do I think you will have to contact Samsung for diagnosis and repair. Or maybe a local repair shop.
You can also google site:notebookreview.com/samsung water spill to find previous spill incidents discussed here and see if they contain some suggestions. I cross my fingers for you.