The Samsung Series 5 550P Laptops Thread
knjsandeepkumar
Right off the assembly line
Hi Guys,
I have ordered the samsung Np5505pc-S01IN laptop 2 days back from flipkart. I have a few questions, which may be the existing owners in this thread can answer.
1. Does this laptop have a slot for Docking Station?
2. Is the Intel B75 chipset present in this laptop compatible to use SSD?
Hope some one can answers my questions soon
I have ordered the samsung Np5505pc-S01IN laptop 2 days back from flipkart. I have a few questions, which may be the existing owners in this thread can answer.
1. Does this laptop have a slot for Docking Station?
2. Is the Intel B75 chipset present in this laptop compatible to use SSD?
Hope some one can answers my questions soon
dx1
Broken In
who needs Blu-Ray anyway....god knows when it will finally click and become mainstream...
pratyush997
Inactive
A few things that I did after installing win 8 (I did clean install)
1) Installed sound driver from Samsung website, otherwise sound will only come through woofer and that too very loud as if the woofer will snap out of the base any moment.
2) Installed touchpad driver from samsung website, so I could re-enable some features like pinch zoom, two finger gestures, etc. A new driver to support win 8 swipe gestures will be released soon: Synaptics Gesture Suite (SGS 12.3).
3) Installed NVidia drivers from windows update.
4) IMO its much tolerable if I disable the fancy animations, especially for metro. I disabled them by right clicking "My Computer" > Advanced Settings > Performance > Visual Effects.
5) Installed Pokki menu *www.pokki.com/ to restore the start menu. It's really useful and beautiful.
6) Created some folder for pics, music etc in another drive and added these folders to the libraries "Music", "Videos"... This way if we use the music, videos, apps from metro which will use the content from the specified folders.
1) Installed sound driver from Samsung website, otherwise sound will only come through woofer and that too very loud as if the woofer will snap out of the base any moment.
2) Installed touchpad driver from samsung website, so I could re-enable some features like pinch zoom, two finger gestures, etc. A new driver to support win 8 swipe gestures will be released soon: Synaptics Gesture Suite (SGS 12.3).
3) Installed NVidia drivers from windows update.
4) IMO its much tolerable if I disable the fancy animations, especially for metro. I disabled them by right clicking "My Computer" > Advanced Settings > Performance > Visual Effects.
5) Installed Pokki menu *www.pokki.com/ to restore the start menu. It's really useful and beautiful.
6) Created some folder for pics, music etc in another drive and added these folders to the libraries "Music", "Videos"... This way if we use the music, videos, apps from metro which will use the content from the specified folders.
hhh
Broken In
Hi duriel,
Hope you doing well
Can you please share with me the driver links. I also did a fresh install into a different drive. Now using Win 7 and win 8 both ...
yep doing great, hope your sammy is treating you well
Well, here's the drivers page: Support for NP550P5C
I installed [Sound(Audio)(MS Signature)] and [Touchpad(MS Signature)]
One thing I noticed, in the task manager > Performance I see the cpu clock fixed at 2.29 GHz. It doesn't change no matter whether I am in plugged in or out or power saver or high performance mode. I am pretty sure after installing win8 it did show variable clock speed with min about 1.3 GHz. Do you have this issue too?
Well, here's the drivers page: Support for NP550P5C
I installed [Sound(Audio)(MS Signature)] and [Touchpad(MS Signature)]
One thing I noticed, in the task manager > Performance I see the cpu clock fixed at 2.29 GHz. It doesn't change no matter whether I am in plugged in or out or power saver or high performance mode. I am pretty sure after installing win8 it did show variable clock speed with min about 1.3 GHz. Do you have this issue too?
Thanks, I got confused with Samsung Update Plus and the newer one SW Update. This new SW Update shows new drivers.
How do you get to turbo mode in win 8? I haven't yet installed installed the samsung software which shows turbo mode, silent mode etc. I will install these drivers now and see if these drivers fix this issue.
high performance mode should trigger overclocking but u need easy settings to overclock ie turbo mode
krish_techie
Broken In
hi guys can some one tell me for how much u paid for win8 ..i downloaded upgrade assistant but while paying it is showing 1999...can some one tell me how to get win8 for 699..as we bought our laptops in august only ...if possible provide the link..i even registered in windowsoffer website and received the promocode..but where should i use it .my hands are itching to try win8 on my sammy 
Yes, I now installed all the samsung recommended softwares and drivers through SW Update (*orcaservice.samsungmobile.com/SWUpdate.aspx). It's really nice. But the fn+fan key can now only change the mode to one of the last two modes used, also it doesn't show any text on screen showing which mode it is in. Well it doesn't matter, just telling, I myself use the battery icon.high performance mode should trigger overclocking but u need easy settings to overclock ie turbo mode
Anyway about the clock issue, well it seems the issue is because I installed hyper-v given with windows 8. I used to use virtualbox for all my vm work. But hyper-v is type 1 hypervisor and takes over during bootup and seems to fix the speed to stock clock speed, that is 2.29GHz. This also caused issue with virtualbox. So I uinstalled hyper-v. Its good now, task manager now shows variable clock speed.
699. During the order:hi guys can some one tell me for how much u paid for win8 ..i downloaded upgrade assistant but while paying it is showing 1999...can some one tell me how to get win8 for 699..as we bought our laptops in august only ...if possible provide the link..i even registered in windowsoffer website and received the promocode..but where should i use it .my hands are itching to try win8 on my sammy
If you are ordering using paypal the promo field will come before checkout
If you are ordering using credit card the promo field will come after you enter your credit card details.