Series 7 Gamer due for a refresh?

The iterations of the series 7 has been few since the the first release. Does anyone know of a schedule of possible refreshes for this line?

I know they have a model that is available in asia that is not available elsewhere, but that has been about 6 months since they released that model.

Samsung Series 7 Gamer Gets a Bright Refresh | PCWorld

 

Have you read this thread which discusses the 2013 Series 7 range? It includes a 17" model. However, I don't recall it mentioning a specific gamer model.

John

 

Yes, I did read it. It might be that the new Chronos is on par with the gamer model, but I'm not sure.

 

I'm not sure what planet they were on when they said benchmarks of the 7870M showed it to be faster than the 675M. It's significantly slower than a 675M. I would not get the 7870M version unless it's much cheaper or you love yellow.

If they refresh it they would probably go with the 7970M or 680M, both of which are a decent bump in performance over the 675M, or do it much later in the year when there's either a rename or marginal increase in a new GPU. Who knows. We'll wait and see I guess. We still haven't seen the 7970M version that was clearly called out in the manual. Maybe now that AMD fixed their woeful driver situation Samsung would feel more comfortable putting their name on a gamer notebook for the US/EU market with a 7970M where PC gamers are more prevalent and much more demanding of quality.

 

Does it have a mxm slot ? If so you could put in a 680 or 7970 after market

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proprietary mxm, so unless Samsung puts out a card with a new bios chip for you to put in the main board we are SOL. The vbios on these is included on the main boards bios...................

 

Someone could also hack the bios to include a different vbios. Someone did it before to enable uv/ov or something. But then you would actually have to get it to fit into the unit as it's shaped slightly differently.

In the end not worth the trouble. Be better off buying a unit that is upgradeable with mxm card that contains it's own bios.

 

hacking the bios is a chicken befoe the egg problem, how to flash an amd vbios with nvidia card installed or how to boot with amd card and existing nvidia vbios? maybe a blind flash or emergency recovery procedure? Either does not sound like a bunch of fun.............

 

Wow. Why would they have a non standard mxm. Makes this laptop impossible to upgrade and no good to most gamers or future minded people.. sucks.

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Samsung sells devices, not user upgradeable PC's. The intent was most likely for assembly convenience and device configurability and component reusability between models. Agreed it would have been nice to change the video card. Also the system is close in price to the more upgradable custom systems..............

 

I really hope to see a Series 7 Gamer with a GTX 780M. That's the notebook I'd most certainly purchase in 2013.

 

The problem there would be price. That would most likely place this in the $2,000 or over raqnge unless they again lower ram and other things. With the 675m being at 1,899 that is for comparison that is. The other problem is marketability, most users spending for a GTX 780m also want true MXM.

 

I want to buy a Samsung Series 7 Gamer but I just saw that in TigerDirect and Amazon now its price is $ 1599 and $ 1499 the original price was $ 1899 which makes me wonder if this has something to do that the laptop is due to refresh soon. Also it still has the Nvidia GTX 675M instead of the new Nvidia GTX 675MX based on Kepler. Do you think it is wise to wait to see what happens before buying it?

 

I bought mine 8 months ago. It still works great for me, but at this point I would get something with a 680M or 7970M unless it's a good deal for the gamer 7 price wise.

Be careful with the $1500-1600 and make sure it's not the one with a 7870M. It's considerably weaker.

 

Hmm according to that PCWorld article, the next Samsung Gamer won't support switchable graphics. That is both a pro and a con, depending on your view, I see it as a pro. I state that because it supports 3D, and you can't have 3D with switchable graphics, Intel HD4000 doesn't support that.

 

The present gamer does not support switchable graphics, at least the 675m version doesn't..............

Edit TBH I wish it did support the switchable graphics. This beig as I am, not a gamer but onn that same note since it is a gamer system not having the graphics makes it much simpler for any graphics software.

 

Wow, it's hard to believe that the newest Series 7 Gamer has a worse graphic card (amd 7970M) than the older (nVidia 675M). Thanks for your advice but fortunately the one offered for the price I mentioned is the older one.

 

Sorry to hi-jack the thread but I thought it might be relevant to ask.

Can any explain if there is a difference between the UK models NP700G7C-S01UK and S02UK other than the former is a windows 7 and latter windows 8? Fair bit cheaper just for the sake of OS

Many thanks

 

Where do you see the -S01UK heavily discounted. Both Amazon UK and Laptops Direct have very similar prices for both versions. If you find the -S01UK at a lower price then it's probably being sold by someone who thinks Windows 7 is obsolete.

John

 

The cheapest I have seen it is:
NOTEBOOKS - 7 Series - Samsung NP700G7C-S01UK - Laptopmania - Laptop Deal and Offer

which is a fair bit of saving in my eyes for the sake of the os

 

Differences;

S01
i7-3610
Windows 7

S02
i7-3630
Windows 8
(please beware as some links show a BR drive some do not)

Otherwise they seem to be the same......................