** LATE BUT IN FASHION: SAMSUNG G700 GAMING LAPTOP ARRIVING TOMORROW! **
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Its not really best practice to disable UAC, however I’m the only user of my laptop and I personally do not like the ‘prompts’ to do something.
Its not just about the prompts granted, UAC has a lot of benefits, and it can stop a lot of malicious code being run. However I just know I’ve got control of my laptop and do regularly sweep with CC Cleaner, spyware blaster and run anti virus software..
The thing is, when I did run with UAC for a while, I never once answered no to a question, I knew each time when it prompted for action it was because I wanted the app to do something, so for this reason alone I disabled due to the number of prompts that in the end just annoyed me.
There has, and will be much debate about UAC, it can have affects on IE, NTFS permissions, application running and evaluation prompts.
I found UAC comical that GPU-X requested Administrator prompts to read my GPU details..
For the less technical users UAC maybe has a use, for me it was just a bind and got disabled.
I think you might be right, i'm playing around with mine right now, and I honestly cannot see anyway to put the laptop into performance mode without the red WASD lighting up, as well as the keys blue and trackpad being disabled...
The modeshift software is the only way to control the lights, I guess you could, but I've not tried this remove the software and use Windows power Manager to use the laptop at full speed but it'll not control the lights so thus put the laptop into a performance mode but it won't disabe the touchpad, light the keys and you get the full power of the GPU?
it does seem a bit silly. My old Dell had a quickset manager, but without it, you could use Fn keys to enable or disable backlit keyboard, or use the Windows power manager instead, or use Control Panel to monitor the battery, which quickset could also do, just in another way..
Hmmm..
If you look here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Samsung-Series-7-Gamer-700G7A-Notebook.66523.0.html you can see 5 "Game Mode" screens. They are in German but appear to allow you to configure what happens in Game Mode. Any have these in English? They seem to allow the touchpad and windows key to be enabled during Game Mode as well as changing the backlit keyboard.
There are different animations and themes for game mode configurable but they all have the same keyboard backlight theme. I've turned the animations off anyhow. To be honest it doesn't bother and you can always turn the backlight off. I will dig around to find out if there is an API that Samsung is willing to share though.
me - I'm not running with a page file now with 16GB RAM.
You could also move the pagefile to the inbuilt express cache SSD.
I also saved another 8GB by disabling hibernation (no hyberfil.sys)
And amazingly I just discovered Windows 7 own 'disk cleanup' utility which also saved me around 7GB of system crash logs and temp files!
You could also move the pagefile to the inbuilt express cache SSD.
I also saved another 8GB by disabling hibernation (no hyberfil.sys)
And amazingly I just discovered Windows 7 own 'disk cleanup' utility which also saved me around 7GB of system crash logs and temp files!
I get an error on startup & it creates a temporary one because it wants 12gb but there's only 7.5 on the internal?
Have a read.. Might give some handy tips on dealing with page file etc..
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/132201-virtual-memory-paging-file-change.html
Yeah I found that while playing with it last week, just get an error on startup & it creates one anyway, no matter what the 'initial size' of the internal one is.
What RAM do I need to get, 2x4gb? Any recommendations?
What to Get
Ok so I'm looking at procuring a gaming laptop and all in all, this one does look the business. The question really is, when will Overclockers be getting the updated version of this laptop? (the one with the Nvidia card) Do I wait or do I buy the existing one?
Hmm decisions decisions!
And by the way it was good to see you all at the Gadget show, great stuff on display, especially that quad graphics card, watercooled monster!!!
Ok so I'm looking at procuring a gaming laptop and all in all, this one does look the business. The question really is, when will Overclockers be getting the updated version of this laptop? (the one with the Nvidia card) Do I wait or do I buy the existing one?
Hmm decisions decisions!
And by the way it was good to see you all at the Gadget show, great stuff on display, especially that quad graphics card, watercooled monster!!!
I have a funny feeling we wont see the 7970 models for a long time maybe even after Xmas time, the GTX 675M (580M but a new name) model is the one they are trying to push at the moment and even then stocks of that are really hard to get hold off.
Depends how long you want to wait and if we ever see a 7970 model from Samsung, even though they state it as an upcoming model. I think they are trying to push the GTX 675M because most users don't want the 3D and the extra cost related to having the 3D, they seem to have decided on a 2D platform with faster drives and more system RAM.
Depends how long you want to wait and if we ever see a 7970 model from Samsung, even though they state it as an upcoming model. I think they are trying to push the GTX 675M because most users don't want the 3D and the extra cost related to having the 3D, they seem to have decided on a 2D platform with faster drives and more system RAM.
I got a reply from Samsung on publishing the ModeShift API:
Thank you for contacting Samsung.
Sorry this is not something we can help you with. As far as I am aware
this is not open source software, so I don't think Samsung will release
any information about the interface.
booo... Need to do some research on debugging tools to try and figure out what it is doing but I don't think that is going to be easy.
Thank you for contacting Samsung.
Sorry this is not something we can help you with. As far as I am aware
this is not open source software, so I don't think Samsung will release
any information about the interface.
booo... Need to do some research on debugging tools to try and figure out what it is doing but I don't think that is going to be easy.
I gave this a quick go this weekend but only had chance to burn a single dvd with CDBurnerXP - and it failed! Is everyone else managing to burn CDs/DVDs OK?