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Samsung NP300E7A
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Specifications
For full specifications see the Samsung NP300E7A specifications page.
| Name | Samsung NP300E7A |
| Processor | Intel Pentium Processor B940 (2GHz, 2MB L3 Cache) |
| Screen | 17.3” HD+ LED Display (1600 x 900), Anti-Reflective |
| RAM | 4GB DDR3 System Memory at 1,333MHz (4GB x 1) |
| HDD | 500GB S-ATAII Hard Drive (5,400RPM) |
| Optical Drive | DVD |
| Graphics | Intel HD Graphics |
| Network | 802.11 bg/n 1 x 1 (up to 150Mbps) |
Laptop Notes
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Discussion
Almost everything works off-the-shelf on this laptop with Ubuntu 11 and 12, CentOS 6, OpenSuse and Fedora.
The exceptions are minor -
Knoppix struggled with the network cards and hot-plugging.
The Ubuntu 12.04 live CD had issues somewhere - it loaded and ran ok, but was immensely slow and thrashed the CD constantly, although a terminal session was fine. Once installed on the hard-disk, it was also fine.
The brightness adjustment keys all fail in different ways in Gnome and KDE, irrespective of distro, and the presence of samsung-tools. With Gnome 3.6, the brightness control from the system-settings control panel works, but widgets, plugins, keys, do not.