Samsung Series 5 Laptop: 14-Inch, i5, 4GB, 500GB, NVIDIA GT630M (1GB) on Amazon $500

Quote from y2ldude : THX op just got the laptop it's awesome love. can play League of Legends on max settings

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looks like a good deal.. but dead deal on amazon...

Tax in California forces many to look elsewhere, thanks anyway OP!

Don't know why you guys are spreading crap around. The GT630 is much faster than an HD 4000 (same ballpark as a 6620g) which is already fast enough for some games such as League of Legends. The GT 630 is a rebrand of the GT 540 which is a tad faster than a 6770M which I own. My 6770M can play games like Skyrim, BLOPS2, Batman, at medium high settings at 1600x900. The GT630 let alone the HD4000 would have no problems at this laptops resolution of 1366x768. Unless you were trying to max Metro2033 or Crysis 1... If you want to game on a laptop, turn off shadows and lower anti aliasing or turn it off.

I bought this for my wife and got it set up yesterday. Overall pretty nice machine. I removed the bloatware including intellimemory and installed another 4GB RAM.

Biggest negatives were the lack of backlit keyboard (which I knew ahead of time) and the fact that the wifi card doesn't accept 5Ghz on the N band. Laptop also came with a white lid (not silver) which wasn't a big deal to me. I'd probably throw a SSD drive in there if I was using for myself as the boot up times are pretty lengthy, but once its up and running its a solid machine for $500.

Quote from tennis8363 : Hmm... keep my current i3 laptop with 8gb of memory, integrated graphics and upgrade to an SSD for $150 or pull the trigger on this one with the dedicated video card... Tough choice.

I just bought a Series 5 for $399, with i3, 750GB, JBL Audio, Integrated graphics, and 4GB memory. I'm throwing another 4GB stick in it and an SSD. I'm not fond of this style Series 5. I stay stick with whatcha got or hold off for better.

Also, I'm now seeing a price of $679.29 on this one. What's that about?

Quote from tofumonster : Don't know why you guys are spreading crap around. The GT630 is much faster than an HD 4000 (same ballpark as a 6620g) which is already fast enough for some games such as League of Legends. The GT 630 is a rebrand of the GT 540 which is a tad faster than a 6770M which I own. My 6770M can play games like Skyrim, BLOPS2, Batman, at medium high settings at 1600x900. The GT630 let alone the HD4000 would have no problems at this laptops resolution of 1366x768. Unless you were trying to max Metro2033 or Crysis 1... If you want to game on a laptop, turn off shadows and lower anti aliasing or turn it off.

Agree with this guy. This was a great deal. The GT 630m should be very nice at playing most games on medium settings and at only $500 for a 14" portable size budget gaming laptop....not a bad deal. I completely missed this deal, must have gone under the radar for most people.
Anytime you can get 2nd class dedicated graphics card and a laptop with decent CPU (i5) for around $500 then everyone should be ok. It's probably worth around $550-600 on a normal good deal.