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    Samsung X11: 14" WXGA Napa notebook

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by ivar, Feb 17, 2006.

  1. ivar

    ivar Notebook Deity

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    This 14" light notebook is just announced on the Asian market. it uses Napa
    platform (Intel - Core Duo 1,66GHz , GMA950, nVIDIA, GeForce 7400) and it has 80GB SATA HDD. The weight is 2.12kg.

    Samsung.com has manuals and clips about this notebook (so far only in Korean and Chinese).
     
    ivar, Feb 17, 2006
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  2. Goren

    Goren Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    you're such a teaser Ivar.. showing us pics of all these great looking notebooks us Americans will never have :( :(
     
    Goren, Feb 18, 2006
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  3. ivar

    ivar Notebook Deity

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    Ah, sorry. Imagine me looking on those nice and cheap american laptops which you guys discuss here! :)

    I actually hope that it is possible to get Samsungs in the US if you want (e.g. dynamism.com). Moreover, the deal between Samsung and Dell finishes so that the US notebook market may open for Samsung soon.
     
    ivar, Feb 18, 2006
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    drunkencactus Notebook Enthusiast

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    I would apprecaite some pictures and clips of this laptop!
    I'm slowly falling inlove with samsung laptops..

    lol
     
    drunkencactus, Feb 18, 2006
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    deadbilly Newbie

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    A search of www.samsung.com for X11 turns up a PDF user manual in Korean (as Ivar mentions, and thanks for the original post). Some specifications are listed near the end of the file. I'd hope they bring this to Australia, here they have only listed the WXGA X60 versions on their site, and in my humble opinion the added weight, size and battery drain of a 15.4" screen is not justified by a resolution of "only" WXGA.

    cheers
     
    deadbilly, Feb 18, 2006
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  6. ivar

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    ivar, Feb 19, 2006
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  7. Goren

    Goren Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    thanks for the pics, such a sweet looking laptop :(
     
    Goren, Feb 19, 2006
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    .tom Samsung Moderator NBR Reviewer

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    really a nice notebook. does anyone know something about the pricing?
     
    .tom, Feb 20, 2006
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    it costs about $1800.. for lower model. (I mean in Korea)
     
    chung1q, Feb 28, 2006
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    easybullet3 Newbie

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    ya. I just noticed that my TOTAL hard drive size says: 64gb (and in properties it says: 68gb)

    BUT,, I paid for an 80gb hard drive!! (and on the box it says 80gb!!

    so where is my missing 12 or 16 gigabites???? !!!

    anyone have similar problem?

    has samsung installed a 12 or 16 gb partition that is not visible to me?

    can I free-up this? (or is this not advisable?)

    marc
     
    easybullet3, Jul 18, 2006
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  11. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    I had a similar shortfall in space with my X60. The Fujitsu HDD claimed to be 100GB but only about 86GB was visible. This included a 3.4GB non-DOS partition. I have since cloned the HDD onto a 120GB Seagate Momentus 5400.2. This is reported by Windows Disk Management as 111.8GB, so it is about 8GB (7%) less than the nominal size while the Fujitsu (model MHV2100BH) is about 14GB (14%) less than the nominal capacity.

    It is well known that actual sizes of HDDs are always less than the nominal sizes. SiSoftware Sandra tells me that the Seagate HDD has 234441648 LBA sectors. At 512 bytes per sector this gives a total capacity of 120,034,123,776 bytes. Hard disk manufacturers use giga = 1 billion, whereas computers actually calculate giga as 1024 x 1024 x 1024. Hence my computer should see the 120GB as 114.47GB. I think the balance is used during formatting.

    It is possible that Samsung installed something on the original HDD that is not visible to disk management software. However, my X60 has been running fine with the cloned HDD. My suspicion is that Fujitsu's nominal HDD sizes may be optimistic. (Unfortunately, Sandra can't read all the Fujitsu HDD's details because it is now in an eternal USB caddy.)

    What does Sandra report as the number of sectors for the X11's HDD and what brand is it?

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jul 18, 2006
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  12. ralliart12

    ralliart12 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Gentlemen, I'm quite sure the missing 12~16GB is used up by the AVS no-bootup-playbk partition.
     
    ralliart12, Jul 19, 2006
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