{"id":16914,"date":"2013-02-19T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=16914"},"modified":"2013-02-19T09:15:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T15:15:38","slug":"review-samsung-series-7-gamer-is-literally-heavy-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/review-samsung-series-7-gamer-is-literally-heavy-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Samsung Series 7 Gamer Is (Literally) Heavy Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
If there has been one absolute in the world of laptops over the last few years, it\u2019s been the trend towards greater portability. From tiny, budget netbooks, to powerful and sometimes expensive Ultrabooks, thinner and lighter is consistently the name of the game. Sometimes, you don\u2019t care about portability. Sometimes, it\u2019s raw power you\u2019re looking for. The Samsung Series 7 Gamer<\/a> is ready to deliver that experience. Just don\u2019t plan on carrying it very far.<\/p>\n Inescapably, the first thing you notice about the Gamer is its size. The 17.3\u201d screen would make it big enough to start with, but this machine is also extremely thick, nearly two inches at its widest point. This is easily the biggest laptop I\u2019ve ever worked on. Weighing in at over 8 pounds, picking the Gamer up feels pretty much exactly as heavy as you\u2019d expect it would. The Gamer is more \u201cluggable\u201d than portable. You might bring it to another room, but you\u2019re not going to want to take it to work or class on a regular basis.<\/p>\n In exchange for that tremendous size, you get some equally impressive specs. A quad-core i7 processor clocking in at 2.3 GHz, 16 GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M Graphics form the core of this powerhouse. For storage, you get a pair of 750 GB hard drives and an 8 GB SSD to help boost the performance of critical files. Throwing in a Blu-ray drive, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 2 USB 3.0 ports, an SD card slot, HDMI, VGA, and a DisplayPort gets you a machine primed to replace almost any desktop.<\/p>\n On the right side, above the keyboard, Samsung\u2019s added a little wheel to control the performance of all that hardware. The no-holds-barred Game mode is obviously what this monster was designed for. There\u2019s also a Balance mode, optimized for more typical computing like web browsing. Library mode turns off all sounds and the fan for a quieter experience (though I doubt you\u2019ll ever want to actually drag this behemoth to a library). Green mode is for getting the most out of your battery, and believe me, you\u2019ll want to use it if you ever unplug from the stupendous power brick (seriously, it\u2019s the size of an actual brick).<\/p>\nFirst Impressions<\/h3>\n