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welcome to a very exciting unboxing Samsung's fairly new at the gaming notebook game however they've been doing notebooks for a while 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 707 hundred g7 C this is the s0 one and the particular spec is it is a 17 inch notebook with Windows 7 home premium a core i7 3610 QM this is an Ivy Bridge CPU hence the three at the beginning of the part number a 17.3 inch full HD 400 nits LCD screen a GTX 670 5m with 2 gigs of gddr5 so that is not your grandmother's graphics card 16 gigs of ddr3 memory as well as blue oh has a blu-ray player cool Gigabit LAN as well as 802.11 a/b/g/n 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's all 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 no I know that's like but I just don't understand how this fits in here ok well now see that didn't even go in there no it doesn't yeah even that I really don't see it okay forget it um so anyways we have a power brick which is a pretty substantial power brick at the gtx 675 so it's yeah pretty pretty significant so how many 19 volts ten point five 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 it's not much that goes with a notebook we've got a battery standard battery pack battery cells made in Korea and assembled in China 89 watt hours or 50 900 milliamp hours okay that's valid okay get started Windows seven don't forget guys if you buy a notebook today you can get a Windows 8 upgrade for nothing all right no not for nothing for 15 bucks u.s. or something like that so don't worry about buying a Windows 7 notebook today not to be able to run Windows 8 when it comes we got a nice soft cell phone here - I can't it's a very strange shape why is it bowed like that see that now it's bowed why is it both this one's bowed to see look at it did they look like did they save money on the phone by like having slightly less phone here strange I mean either way the notebook arrived in one piece so we can't really complain the notebook was you know in several pieces then we would definitely definitely complain mmm 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 II 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 black brushed plastic for a number of reasons including there being easily 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 a Seuss's g-series I've seen them a 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 ground this 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 let's see what else we got going on here so ah should we boot it up first or should we here let's put the put the battery in really quick so the battery goes here okay locks into place alright let's flip her over well let's see what we've got in terms of easy upgrade ability so these ones look like they don't come off too easy this one looks like it comes off pretty easy so I see yeah I can't tell what I see in there since flip it back over okay let's boot her up let's see how much of a charger comes on the battery 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 plastic key bits off look at that back like keyboard that is a gorgeous alright so while it's booting up we can have a look at what we've got in terms of pop yeah 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 alright I oh 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 it's for gaming mode balance mode energy-saving mode and then I think that's probably normal mode see just go like that switch between all the different power modes it's pretty cool so we're going to put it in balance pin for now okay on the front we find not a whole lot other than and it power LED as well as a hard drive indicator LED oh no no I don't think that's what that is at all what that is ok moving right along we've got on the back ventilation and on the left the bulk of our oh so here we find our Kensington lock our power input our gigabit lan vga hdmi and displayport lots of different options here 2 USB 3 SuperSpeed ports a an SD card reader microphone and headphone jack so that is a very vibrant display as well viewing angles not bad color doesn't distort too much actually that's not bad my language is definitely English so let's go with that ok you cannot change your language later haha so let's go demo press the next type of password ok look away ah ok ah hint oh that's not a very good hint at all ok I accept the license terms which I have of course speed read through really fast because that's an important part of making sure that you accept license not sharply ok 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 this is like a wheel I'll have to figure that out okay so we got speakers here we've got like turbo button anything going on here there's our hard drive indicator LED there's our caps lock indicator power buttons here more speakers here and what happened to that backlit keyboard it looks so good oh there we go oh my goodness touch sensitive buttons so sexy so that's your second review button I don't know but I like this one yeah so cool ok so we've got lots of different hotkeys with the functions and brightness up down it's like control panel external display turning the touchpad off 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 without I've tried it but this looks like it's probably the keyboard LED backlight how bright you wanted around not very do you on it given that all of software isn't loaded like probably all this functionality necessarily working out of 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 I'll 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 so down here check this out we've got two memory dims each of these are 4 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 yet probably in raid 0 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 but yeah so I take one of those out throw it in an external enclosure and you know get yourself to 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 installation highs one one screw 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 set the touch pad and Windows key game option modes okay that's cool gaming mode dial brilliant graphic card fast booting okay alright so they actually that is a very cool desktop background but this is not a cool mouse problem pointer yeah Samsung just know you may not do that um okay let's try some of the buttons and stuff so let's try the turbo button 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 webcaming it up with somebody with the included webcam then you could make sure that you sort of talked so close to that that would be it okay all these buttons are working now that we're actually loaded into the elastic see brightness goes up and brightness goes down keyboard brightness actually we'll 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 the whole way up looks really good so cool okay I'm moving right along turbo it turns out is just like an LED okay this does mute it okay so you can see over here you not mute okay the wireless one okay all of that stuff seems pretty good built-in full keypad potful um and number pad honestly the keyboard feels pretty good just very little flex to it and the keys feel really really nice the system also seemed really responsive and I was kind of going too slick I was like well does it have an SSD cache well it looks like they have these configured not in rate so just two separate drives and then they're using they are using an SSD cache to cache the boot drive so there's eight gigs of SSD cache Ness which you can see here from the Samsung SSD so that's really cool love to see that SSD caching is awesome and it should be used absolutely everywhere yeah don't I haven't forgotten 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 good actually weights a little high but what can you hear 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 a balanced mode you can see that the actual desktop background does change and it goes into you know well more of a balanced configuration so we switch into whatever mode that is here let's find out what that root is because I was sure we still have it why did you just call it library mode because I don't think that's what it is honestly called library mode okay they're 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 balanced mode the 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 the silent mode off and I'm going to show you guys like the coolest thing ever check this up so we're gonna go back into gaming mode hold on hold on you have to watch me hit the swedge well now just go back so they can see everything see I'm going to hit the switch oh it's muted okay we have to all we have to do it again okay so we go back to balance mode and then here whole are and turn up dramatic pause uh yeah gaming mode by the way your battery might run out quickly if you don't plug in AC power in gaming 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 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