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Samsung NP305V5A

Samsung NP305V5A
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alaScore 81

115 reviews

Jan, 2025

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 115 reviews of Samsung NP305V5A. The average rating for this product is 4.4/5, compared to an average rating of 4.0/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. Reviewers really like the portability and usability. The price and design also get good feedback.

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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the Samsung NP305V5A is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 81/100 = Very good quality.

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Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for Samsung NP305V5A

 

alaTest has collected and analyzed 3 user reviews of Samsung NP305V5A from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.3/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. People are impressed by the price and design.

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100% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Jan, 2025

Expert review by : Natalie Shoemaker (pcmag.com)

Samsung Series 3 (NP305V5A)

 

The Samsung Series 3 (NP305V5A) may look luxurious, but its AMD Llano APU falls short of its Core i3 counterparts in terms of performance. However, it will wreck Intel's integrated graphics on the gaming grid any day.

Sleek design at a budget price. Bluetooth. Big 750GB hard drive. AMD GPU gives it an edge in gaming over Intel?s integrated graphics.

Lackluster battery life. AMD Llano APU trailed behind Intel Core i3 competitors. Bloatware.

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Oct, 2011
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Pretty Decent

 

Thing loads extremely fast! Plays Guild Wars 2 on Medium settings pretty solidly with no issues, or issues that one would expect when a laptop is under load. Graphics card seems pretty good for a non-Alienware comp. Core quad seems to power through...

It only came with 4gb of RAM. I guess that since I got this thing at like a 45% refurbished discount, I can't really complain about not having more, but I am lol. To fix this I have ReadyBoosted on of my flashdrives for an extra 4gb of "RAM

Nov, 2012
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Quality Veristile Laptop

 

Good buy, I love it so far. Its just another great quality, well built Samsung Product.

Many ; Fast boot & wakeup features are great for impatient people like me ; The A6 3410MX is an awesome processor that is way underrated/undersold by AMD. The factory specs can be tweaked using K10stat to not only provide significantly higher clock...

5400 RPM HDD = Dino age. That got swapped out promply for a Scorpio Black 7200rpm ; Bloatware (though what OEM isn't) ; NO secondary HDD bay, no firewire/usb 3.0/esata - Especially the esata ; Speakers (though most lappy speakers never get loud enough...

May, 2012
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Great Machine

 

Doing everything i ask of it, light gaming, photo and video editing, with out straining. upgrading to 8 gig made a huge improvement ; Overclocks easily to A8 clock levels, without excessive heat build up ; Build quality so far seems SOLID lighter than...

touch pad a little touchy (could be that i'm just use to the old Toshiba i had) ; Didn't buy it from Newegg (they didn't offer it at the time i purchased it) found it locally on sale for a lot less

Feb, 2012
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Nice laptop considering.

 

So what are the major cons you will notice with this laptop? Screen is less reflective than normal as its not glass panel , which I like, BUT STILL reflects as there is a thin plexi layer. The screen is not of the highest quality, the picture is...

Please keep in mind I have only had it for a week since this date so reliability has not been tested. I will start out for reasons why I purchased. First it was not from new egg I needed to get one quick so I went to comp usa. Who had NOTHING in stock...

with my i3 laptop I notice no difference in speed (you can look up the benches on anandtech) in fact even because of benches you will notice a lot of other laptops people hardly notice a difference with the older series Pents compared to their new...

Sep, 2011
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

it looked good

 

I thought this seemed like a solid buy, but as usual, laptops are just a photograph - locked in time; what you see is what you get and don't plan on trying to get anything else. Hopefully I can get my money back for this underrated paperweight.

clean look; performance average for the price; gigabit lan; nice size hd

Only get stereo out of the headset; video card is unrecognizable on AMD website so it can't be updated; can't get 4:3 aspect ratio for older games; Samsung control center tries to run the entire laptop (color settings, graphic settings, annoying sound...

Sep, 2011
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Consumer review (rakuten.com)

Samsung NP305V5A-A09US Quad-Core 15.6" LED Notebook,6GB, 500GB, DVDRW, Windows 7 Home Premium

 

Don't be weighed down by wasted time, let your PC come alive when you need it. Your life happens on the go, you don't have time to wait for PC to shut down and power up. With Samsung's exclusive Fast Start technology, simply close the lid to enter a...

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Consumer review (rakuten.com)

Lex Hokata

 

This laptop i got for 300 was fairly nice and can run all the basic games i need (that are not on xbox)

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Consumer review (rakuten.com)

Derrick

 

This samsung laptop is the best laptop I've ever used. The performance is outstanding...well it's a quadcore so weren't expecting anything less. I like the design and the make overall, and the keyboard..oh I'll die for it. Was let down a bit by the...

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Consumer review (rakuten.com)

Samsung NP305V5AI 15.6" AMD A8 6 GB RAM Notebook

 

Great Value for AMD A-8 laptop.Inexpensive but nothing about this laptop feels cheap.AMD A-8 feels much snappier than Intel i3 and possibly i5.Great graphics. Beats intel graphics any day.

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