The Samsung Series 5 550P Laptops Thread

[TheSloth]

I have S01IN. I had installed Fedora. Didn't face any problem in installing. The only problem I faced was couldn't connect my wifi to hostel network. People suggested that you don't have drivers. I did download but still didn't worked out so I uninstalled Fedora. Beside this I didn't face any problem. I didn't had patience to learn how to work it out and all. If you know to use Linux then you should install.
Also I will mention one thing, long back I read somewhere, don't remember where, that Samsung laps gets hot even when they are in idle state when they boot in Linux. In windows the temps were normal. I didn't keep Fedora for long time otherwise I could've said this with my own experience.
So, you think about the risk involved, and then decide.

 

[closertohell]

Guys, I wanted to share one thing with you all. I had bought the laptop NP550P5C S02IN on 22nd Sep 2012!

I was one of the early members of this thread the time it started and it grew so huge now. U can find my posts too.

Well, I am still using my laptop and everyday I use it, It gives a brand new experience. Awesome speakers! Ultimate graphics solution and throttling?? I finally found out why it used to throttle. It has got a 1TB Hitachi HDD which, for some reasons, does not comply with the mobo much. Hence it used to hamper the performance of the system and "IT" used to get hot! not any other parts! I am a programmer myself so I used to experience the so called "throttling" every now and then, but later I realized that y d hell would it have to throttle if do too much coding and start compiling the huge project? Or, y would it have to throttle when during play, too many objects are rendered on the screen, for example, black ops. Well, from here on it was just common sense. Coz the processor has to read so much data from the HDD and the reading rate and the demand from the processor just increased! Which in turn used to heat the HDD itself, thus raising temperature of the laptop, --> this temperature rise now has to be coped up with. But the HDD has no cooling policy! So what now? Who takes up this job of cooling the laptop? The processor folks! It throttles at this point by reducing its processing power! Hence, we were all so much worried about the processor, graphics card, low power charger adapter(hahahaha whoever brought this up here) & improper Samsung design(I mean seriously guys?).

Ohh so guys, you know what I did after all this research?
Replaced HDD with a Samsung EVO 1TB SSD.

Results?
Its Alienware beater now!
No signs of any minor heat! No throttling! All games running at max resolution with very little heat, believe me. I have played Black ops 2 GTA IV, Prototype 2. M not a noob. Plus, as an added bonus, more battery life!

So ppl stop worrying so much about anything other than the HDD! Just replace it with an SSD. You'll flyy

HAHA

 

[seamon]

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This is what happens when you give admissions to IIT Computer Science on the basis of Chemistry marks.

Replaced HDD with a Samsung EVO 1TB SSD.

A new laptop can be bought at that price.

M not a noob.

 

[closertohell]

^
This is what happens when you give admissions to IIT Computer Science on the basis of Chemistry marks.



A new laptop can be bought at that price.

With all due respect sir, I got the ssd after an year and if u would get a laptop of this calibre in 20k then seriously man, probably you need to get admitted somewhere.

Learn to respect ppl first and keep your ego at bay alright. You might b d 'know it all' guy, but I dont give a rats ass to what you think about me or what you said about me. I just tried to help the people here by sharing my experience and this is how u react?

Feel pity at such cheap mentality.

 

[seamon]

With all due respect sir, I got the ssd after an year and if u would get a laptop of this calibre in 20k then seriously man, probably you need to get admitted somewhere.

Learn to respect ppl first and keep your ego at bay alright. You might b d 'know it all' guy, but I dont give a rats ass to what you think about me or what you said about me. I just tried to help the people here by sharing my experience and this is how u react?

Feel pity at such cheap mentality.

Samsung Evo 1 TB SSD costs 41k.

I hope you know a HDD will never throttle when playing games or when compiling code. The heat produced by the HDD is negligible compared to that of the processor or the GPU. If the heat produced by the HDD is so high that it has the potential to heat up the proccy then the motherboard will get damaged and burnt long ago before that heat reaches the proccy.

Alienware performance in a Samsung laptop , Alienwares are miles ahead of any crappy Samsung laptop.

The heating issues disappeared as soon as you switched to a SSD. WOW!

I feel pity at the state of IT guys in India.

 

[closertohell]

Samsung Evo 1 TB SSD costs 41k.

I hope you know a HDD will never throttle when playing games or when compiling code. The heat produced by the HDD is negligible compared to that of the processor or the GPU. If the heat produced by the HDD is so high that it has the potential to heat up the proccy then the motherboard will get damaged and burnt long ago before that heat reaches the proccy.

Alienware performance in a Samsung laptop , Alienwares are miles ahead of any crappy Samsung laptop.

The heating issues disappeared as soon as you switched to a SSD. WOW!

I feel pity at the state of IT guys in India.

Well first of all, have you ever seen an alienware? Atleast in a web browser? I really don't get it what's up wid all this ego that you got there.

Alright man, I give up. I don't need wasting any more time explaining you science or behaviour towards ppl.

N just cos u bought the topic up, I am actually from IIT bombay and I didn't get admitted to computer science on the basis of Chemistry marks. The iit which you spoke about might be something else that probably would take up ppl like u ok. So don't try to judge me.

I am in Australia now and I got d ssd here for 20k rs. Ohh sorry, to whom am I explaining! U already know how d universe evolved right.

Pardon me thy highness.

 

[seamon]

Well first of all, have you ever seen an alienware? Atleast in a web browser? I really don't get it what's up wid all this ego that you got there.

Yep they have at least GTX 765m which is miles ahead of your crappy GPU.

Alright man, I give up. I don't need wasting any more time explaining you science or behaviour towards ppl.

Good.

N just cos u bought the topic up, I am actually from IIT bombay. I am in Australia now and I got d ssd here for 20k rs.

Even in Australia it costs 528 Australian dollars which is roughly equal to 30k INR.

Ohh sorry, to whom am I explaining! U already know how d universe evolved right.

It's because of the Big Bang

Pardon me thy highness.

Nay, thy art like a ill roasted egg!(As you like it reference)

 

[closertohell]

Alienware M14x R2 650m - for your reference
Ohh you knew this too right hahaha

 

[seamon]

Alienware M14x R2 650m - for your reference
Ohh you knew this too right hahaha

Yep that old crap! It was a useless Alienware iteration but Dell sure learnt from that mistake and introduced an amazing 2013 lineup.

 

[TheSloth]

Just now I called Samsung Customer Care and asked them to extend my laptop warranty. When I bought my laptop, there was a special offer in which Samsung was giving 2yrs warranty with the NP550 models. The customer care executive said I cannot extend my warranty cause you can extend warranty only once and since you already got the additional warranty its not possible in your case.
Anyone here extended their warranty? @har , @NikiNfOuR , [MENTION=134913]pratyush997[/MENTION] , @dan4u , [MENTION=134170]ujjwal007[/MENTION], [MENTION=135525]RON28[/MENTION]

 

[pratyush997]

^ Didn't buy any extended warranty.

 

[RON28]

Just now I called Samsung Customer Care and asked them to extend my laptop warranty. When I bought my laptop, there was a special offer in which Samsung was giving 2yrs warranty with the NP550 models. The customer care executive said I cannot extend my warranty cause you can extend warranty only once and since you already got the additional warranty its not possible in your case.
Anyone here extended their warranty? @har , @NikiNfOuR , [MENTION=134913]pratyush997[/MENTION] , @dan4u , [MENTION=134170]ujjwal007[/MENTION], [MENTION=135525]RON28[/MENTION]

Ya even customer care of Samsung told this same thing to my one of my friend, the reason is extended warranty was FREE at that time while purchasing the laptop. Later, when people didn't had the privilege of this offer, they had to pay the amount. So to clear things out, you got the extended warranty FREE, and now you can't extend anymore further.

 

[TheSloth]

[MENTION=134913]pratyush997[/MENTION], [MENTION=135525]RON28[/MENTION] : Thanks for replying guys
Well I wanted one more year warranty. If anything goes wrong I can't afford to pay more than 5k or 6k. Just for argument sake I said to customer care "I didn't wanted your one yr extra free warranty, didn't ask for it, I wanted 2yr warranty". Same reply for any of my statement "Sir, you bought the lap on 21july bla bla bla". I gave up.

 

[Aakarshan]

Hey how is this laptop.and where is this available?because it is not available in local market in delhi.

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[Tejo]

Hi guys....somehow i forgot to ask this since very long...Since beginning, when I plug in headphones, the clarity doesn't seem good enough (even with any equaliser)..does everybody feel the same or is there setting or something to do with that?

 

[aarvi]

Hi,guys,
I posted here long before, but i was following this thread.
I need to post here as i made a huge upgrade to my laptop and i need to share

You guys know our laptop is good but not perfect,the area that was annoying me was the screen,some you guys may disagree but thats my opinion. That display is one of the worst,i mean i've seen many screens and this has worst of everything contrast,pathetic black levels,brightness,colors you tell me everything was bad.You can the notebookcheck review of the same.Our's comes with a 1600*900 ltn156kt06-801 display.

Now i wanted to upgrade to a 1080p screen and after a long research...i found out, for that you need a compatible lvds cable and one from NP550P7C,the 17inch version can handle 1080p and mind you rest of the specs were same.

AUO B156HW01 V.4 was the favourite.its a TN panel that came with xps15 l501x.......and then i came to know of IPS screens from LG which also have 40pin....one of the sceen from that series is sony vaio s15..

Now i dont know if anyone tried IPS in place of a TN even in notebookreview forum,i posted there also.....they speak good of B156HW01 V.4 but its viewing angles are still TN....for me that's a NO.....

so........i tried my luck and i bought one and the cable..HUGE RISK.......BUT
............ IT WORKEDDDDDDDD.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ITS AWESOMEEEEE.....DIFFERENCE IS DAY AND NIGHT......

I used a LP156WF4 SLB5 IPS,the best of that series,which i found out after reading a good amount of notebookcheck reviews....ITS PURE AWESOME AND I LOVE IT.........
comparison of specs i collected from notebookcheck..
NEW PANEL(ips) STOCK(tn)
Maximum(brightness): 316 cd / m² 202 cd / m²
Average(bright) : 295.6 cd / m² 184.8 cd / m²
Illumination : 90% 83%
Black (lowest better) : 00:33 cd / m² 1:3 cd / m²
Contrast : 930: 1 142: 1
.it was my experiment and there was a huge risk involved......
Here's some photos took with my s3,but the pics dont show even half justice regarding the quality..i'll post more photos if i get hold of my brothers canon t4i.......PS:I hvent put the bezel around the screen in these images...

 

[pratyush997]

^ DAYUM MAN! That's really good panel.
Where did you get that panel and for how much?

 

[Tejo]

Finally after 2.5 years, the laptop's subwoofer started giving cracking sound. Anybody faced the same ??
I feel its hardware issue.. service center folks saying they have to replace the entire speakers.. is it so or is it possible to only replace the subwoofer part?

 

[pankajsingh5k]

Hi Guys,

My lappy's charger gave out in a recent power surge and was looking on the internet for a good replacement charger. Can anyone please help me with some good suggestions of any reputable brands charger?

One charger i found on ebay is this one

NEW Replacement 19V 4 74A 90W Power Adapter FOR Samsung NP550P5C S05IN | eBay

Laptop is out of warranty and so cannot request for a replacment. i will also try contacting samsung service center to see if they sell replacements. if any of you guys is using any other charger that you can recomment it would be very helpful.

I am literally dying without my lappy

 

[channelv]

Finally after 2.5 years, the laptop's subwoofer started giving cracking sound. Anybody faced the same ??
I feel its hardware issue.. service center folks saying they have to replace the entire speakers.. is it so or is it possible to only replace the subwoofer part?

Facing the same issue, wondering if I should replace sub module or just unplug it. Don't think there is an option for disabling sub.