Samsung - 15.6" Geek Squad Certified Refurbished Laptop - 8GB Memory - 1TB Hard Drive - Titan Silver

This Laptop achieves what I want: From running a full virtual PC for business purposes in the Financial Services industry to effectively operating a Full Adobe Photo and Video editing suite. The large Hardrive, 8Gb of Ram, Core I7, and dedicated graphics makes this a cakewalk. The design is elegant rivaling more expensive machines. The aluminum chassis and well designed keyboard feel like you are using something that had much thought put into the look and feel. If you don't like all those glossy screens and feel touch features are simply a novelty then the Anti-Glare High Resolution screen on this rig is right for you. It is bright and I am mostly satisfied with the color and black levels... They are not the Highest grade but this also isn't a $3,000+ electronic device. The speakers are incredibly loud and one of the best sounding I have heard on a laptop this size in a long time. The boot time is quick thanks to the built in SSD for cache that I didn't even know it had until I was messing around with the bundled tools from Samsung. Battery Life is GREAT... not to sure about the fact I cant remove the battery hopefully that is not an issue down the road. SIZE is great. For how much hardware the machine my expectations were surpassed. It cut my briefcase weight and bulk from my old machine by a significant percentage. I was hesitant to purchase a refurbished unit but feel I either got lucky or maybe Geek-squad actually knows what they are doing and not just recycling garbage back to their retail customers. Which ever it was I am very happy as not only is this a great system but very economical in comparison to a new comparable unit. I enjoy this laptop especially with some additional pairing features on my Samsung Galaxy S4. I am SAMSUNG Hooked!

Just what I wanted. I was looking for a laptop that would be used primarily all around my house. I've always had glossy screen issues with other laptops. My house has many windows and they were unusable outside on my deck. This computer has a faster processor than I probably need, dual graphics cards and 8gb of RAM. Its all packaged up in a thin, pretty package with a great backlit keyboard and beautiful matte screen that can even be used effectively outside on my deck. It's not super light but I believe that's mostly because of the battery which appears to be yielding 9 or so hours on a charge which is pretty darn good, I swapped out the 1tb hard disk for fast 256gb SSD and now it's awesome. Considerable difference in perceptible speed. For under 1k with SSD I think its a great deal. The refurb was in perfect condition and I'm a very finicky customer.

I've had this computer over a year now and it has been great. I can play about any video game and store a lot of stuff. It's still lightning quick. However it came to me with a few dead pixels on the right side of the screen so that was a big negative. It sometimes bothers me, but never enough to take it back. Still a great purchase.

After downloading the drivers (especially the battery life extender one, works great!) I was really happy with it. With all the features it was excellent for the price. However, whenever I try to connect to the internet, I have LOADS of connectivity issues. It disconnects at least twice every ten minutes and reconnecting is horrible. I believe it's a WLAN card problem, or something so I'm getting a WLAN usb. I'm not overly fond of Windows 8, but it's bearable. The trackpad is also causing me a bit of issues. The large size of it makes typing a little hard to get used to. Figuring out what's left and what's right is a bit of a pain as is trying to right click. A really minor issue is that I can't automatically tell if my NumLock is on or not. I do enjoy the fact that there is a number pad, though. The graphics card is a bit outdated for my liking, but that's not too big of an issue either. Overall it's a gorgeous computer, but there are a few kinks that I am unhappy with.

I bought this laptop as refurbished for 699,a great deal. Reviewers noticed some issues with os etc. I was a bit concerned, but it came with w8 installed. Because of being on holiday I hadn't had much time to play with it. After 2 weeks I took a closer look and discovered that a lot of items weren't working: no bl keyboard, no express cache. All of the Samsung sw wasn't installed. fortunately all was on Samsung's website, so I spent some time installing the stuff. The machine was great, fast, everything perfect.After a week or so,I noticed some lagging, but because of a trip to Europe hadn't time to think much of it.I wish I had, because than I would be able to return the machine. Now I'm in Europe, and laptop doesn't perform at all. In 3 weeks it has 10.000 log events, of which 5000 disk errors. Something is terribly wrong, but from Europe it is difficult to address. I'm in contact with Samsung's support us, to find out, but I'm pretty sure that geek squad did a lousy job.

The laptop is pretty good compare to the price I've paid for. It has major issues with keyboard and touchpad layout. Really inconvenient. As well the wireless connectivity sometime just stopped working. not sure why but I have disable and enable it to start working

Worst experience buying a laptop ever. From the minute it arrived, I had to update and download all new drivers and software because basically nothing was done to the laptop. It only came in a box with the laptop and charger cable, no software, manuals, or anything else. Over the course of a few weeks using it, the laptop got slower and slower. I got to the point where I was fed up and deleted all of my pictures, videos, and documents. I spent over 3 hours dealing with best buy and samsung on how to erase the laptop and start over so I could return it. All of them were unsuccessful because Geek squad did not properly set up my computer. It was missing files and needed software to erase everything. They were not even able to erase everything at the Best Buy store when I returned it. I highly recommend never purchasing a refurbished laptop, no matter how good of a deal it may be. Worst experience ever!

I was excited when it arrived and the. I started it and loaded a screen with recovery options..no recovery disc..backlit keyboard would not cut off...no support from Samsung period...hardware wise this laptop is amazing just be aware