Do you think installing an SSD would increase battery life beyond 2 hours? I was thinking about putting a 128 gig one 89 bucks here on Amazon seems like a great deal
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It might extend the life further, but I don't know how much of a return you'll get on that investment. I haven't changed the spinning drive yet...I will at some point, but just because I want an SSD. If batterly life is what you're looking for, I'd get the extended battery from CDW. I've been very happy with battery life since. I easily get 5+ hours of use (no video, browsing articles, streaming music). I love having a backup battery now, too. Getting the SSD is a great idea, but might not get you what you're really looking for (extended battery life). Also be sure to look into online discussion about SSDs with this unit. The height of the drive is atypical.
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It might extend the life further, but I don't know how much of a return you'll get on that investment. I haven't changed the spinning drive yet...I will at some point, but just because I want an SSD. If batterly life is what you're looking for, I'd get the extended battery from CDW. I've been very happy with battery life since. I easily get 5+ hours of use (no video, browsing articles, streaming music). I love having a backup battery now, too. Getting the SSD is a great idea, but might not get you what you're really looking for (extended battery life). Also be sure to look into online discussion about SSDs with this unit. The height of the drive is atypical. It might extend the life further, but I don't know how much of a return you'll get on that investment. I haven't changed the spinning drive yet...I will at some point, but just because I want an SSD. If batterly life is what you're looking for, I'd get the extended battery from CDW. I've been very happy with battery life since. I easily get 5+ hours of use (no video, browsing articles, streaming music). I love having a backup battery now, too. Getting the SSD is a great idea, but might not get you what you're really looking for (extended battery life). Also be sure to look into online... » Read More It might extend the life further, but I don't know how much of a return you'll get on that investment. I haven't changed the spinning drive yet...I will at some point, but just because I want an SSD. If batterly life is what you're looking for, I'd get the extended battery from CDW. I've been very happy with battery life since. I easily get 5+ hours of use (no video, browsing articles, streaming music). I love having a backup battery now, too. Getting the SSD is a great idea, but might not get you what you're really looking for (extended battery life). Also be sure to look into online discussion about SSDs with this unit. The height of the drive is atypical. « Show Less
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Dear Mr. Harris thanQ for your enquiry and the Thoshiba 128GB Q series Pro was replaced in my above mention laptop perfectely and working well. This new SSD Drive is running more speed than my old 500 GB mechanical drive after cloning on Windows 7 OS. Now I am using my old drive as external drive for the same laptop pc.
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I wouldnt! I think it is used for cache and is software and hardware based. You would probably waste it. You need to look further but I though about buying a 256GB SSD for $120 on sale and replace the 500GB spinning drive with the new SSD and let it still cache if it likes I guess??? not sure lol.
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about $40. Easy to install. Marginal improvements in speed depending on your usage. Dollar for dollar, an SSD is the best upgrade you can do.
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It has a 24GB SSD drive. BTW,one problem that has developed is a habit of spontaneously shutting down right now, like if you hold down the power button. The problem isn't with power supply or overheating, and it's happening with greater frequency. It's happened theree times in the last two weeks, usually shortly after I wake it up. Very annoying.
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Hello Pedro, you can install any current SSD size, I would recommend 128 or 256 GB better, thanks.
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The 5400rpm Best Buy's (NP700Z5B-W01UB) model HDD was a deal breaker for me. Besides Amazon's tax savings offset the price difference, so you get all 4 additional features (7200 HDD, 8G SSD, backlit keyboard, better video) for about $100 considering shipping and the current $150-$200 price difference. However the mention of the 5400rpm drive in S03 (and I'm sure S04) models made me think again. It's gotta be some difference with S01/S02 and the drive seems to be it. Another thing that one reviewer (of the S04) confirmed is that the 8G SSD is indeed proprietary tech (built into and inseparable from the HDD) and thus unavailable as a separate drive letter. I use Linux as my primary OS, so I don't care about Windows startup or IE speed. I don't think Linux would pick up the SSD at all. Which makes me go back to the stripped down Best Buy model. I'd simply swap its slow HDD with a full-size (256G+) SSD which can be had for $300 nowadays. I can live w/o the backlit keyboard and as far as the less capable video card, it's a business notebook, not a water-cooled gaming rig anyway.
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Send it to Samsung and WAIT... oh, and expose your private data to nosy techs. The battery is NOT user replaceable. I know... stupid, stupid, stupid. When you get through this nonsense, buy a Dell laptop with Pro (Gold) tech support and the inexpensive "keep your hard drive option". Samsung computers are really NOT ready for "prime time"! Period.
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For anyone fairly familiar with computers, you could replace the hard drive with a ssd. However, this laptop boots in less than 20 seconds and runs quite quickly, so I feel confident I am getting a boost from the express cache built-in. Also, it has an amazing recover from sleep in about 2 seconds which makes it even closer to ssd performance. I have a desktop with an ssd for my boot drive, and I can tell you that even buying one of the best Crucial ssd's, they can give you more issues than a standard hard drive. No argument ssds are faster, just saying this hybrid express cache solution from samsung with a 7200 rpm hard drive is a good choice, at least for me.
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It depends on your performance settings and what you're doing on the laptop. I use mine with high performance and generally use light programs (MS Office) and web browsing and it generally lasts about 2-4 hours depending. The life of the battery can extend quite beyond that I believe by turning off features and downgrading performance, but I have not really explored those features fully.
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I would like to know if you can buy a replacment battery that has 4 hrs. run time.The computer sounds great except for the 2 hr. 25 min. battery time.Why such a good comp. with such a whimppy battery?
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Saul,I do the same thing, I game heavily, and use it in class. I keep the settings light weight for on battery, ramp to 100% on power. This means I do not game while on battery.While in class using word, power point, Firefox on wireless, downloading and uploading schoolwork and having several tabs in FF open at the same time I get around 4 hours off of a full charge. I'm actually very impressed I was expecting at most 2 hours under that load. But the ssd and smart power management really makes a difference.Hope this helps!
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Pretty easy to do I placed Ina 128 sad from Kingston ... I believe any ssd on the market is compatible
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I am hoping that if I change to SSD that it may also generate less heat? I wonder if that will be the case. As posted earlier, I have noticed some excess heat in tablet mode.
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To be honest with you, IDE to SATA 3 - why? That IDE interface is sooooooo slow it would bottle neck the speed poential of this SSD drastically. I question SATA1 being used with SSD. Time to upgrade the PC.
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I believe you can, but it may be difficult. I have opened the case, and could easily change the SSD, but I struggled in trying to get the battery out and gave up since I did not need to replace it. Even now, the battery still lasts about 4 hours on a full charge.
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ssd life span should be a non-issue if you plan to upgrade every 3-4 years.it is almost 40 percent savings, why not? just check with the seller the working condition of the drive before committing the purchase.