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April 2011
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The editors liked
Looks great
Slim and easy to carry
Good screen and keyboard
Design
Performance
Portability
USB 3.0
Screen
Sandy bridge tech
Slender and gorgeous body
Beautiful screen to finish.
Stuffed full of power
Thin and light
Great screen
Powerful processor and plenty of RAM
Wonderful aesthetics and great performance
The design of the Series 9 is the most impressive part of this laptop
And although it's not quite as thin as the MacBook Air
It's easily as attractive. It's also incredibly slim and lightweight
Making it a machine that you really can take with you wherever you go. The 13.3-inch screen gets a 1366 x 768-pixel resolution. It's relatively sharp
And offers excellent colour reproduction. It's also
Extremely attractive
Good Screen
Very Light
Beautiful
Practical and powerful enough to be worth the investment
Screen and battery life superb
Great backlit keyboard
Matte panel
Nice design and finish
Good CPU performance
Battery life 5h15
Gorgeous design
Smooth performance
Long battery life
Ace screen and keyboard
Keyboard layout
Ambient light sensordriven backlighting
Solid state HDD
Powerful
Thin
Stylish design
Excellent screen
Secondgeneration Intel Core i5 CPU
Thin & light
Duralumin construction
Amazing screen
Sandy Bridge internals
Superb glass touch pad
Great design
Backlit keyboard
Battery life
The editors didn't like
Computing power isn't great
Expensive
Needs adapter cable for wired networking
Price
Keyboard
Questionable structural integrity of Duralumin
Small hard drive size
Touchpads with integrated buttons
128GB of storage is stingy
It isn't the super sexy MacBook Air slayer you might have hoped for
Windows 7 Home Premium
Limited ports and docking options
For this price
We'd have liked a better screen.
With a machine this thin
There's no space for an optical drive. We didn't find this a problem
But it's worth considering before you buy. The Samsung also lags slightly behind the MacBook Air when it comes to the design of the bottom of the machine – while the top is finished in brushed aluminium
The bottom is a rather cheap feeling plastic.
Touchpad takes getting used to
Lower Resolution than we'd have liked
Battery Life
Pricey
Touch pad is finicky
Replaceable battery would have been nice
Poor colour accuracy
Low gaming capacity
Very reduced interface connectivity
You may have to take the kids out of private school to afford it
MicroSD card support
Uses adaptor for LAN
Connect to VGA
Micro HDMI to VGA converter cable not included.
High price makes the MacBook Air look downright affordable by comparison
Flexy case design doesn't feel as good as the MacBook Air's
Published: 2012-01-03, Author: Andrew , review by: theregister.co.uk
This is a machine very much for the professional show-off to be seen with – a salesman or a designer. If you're not in this group, you still might appreciate the power and weight combination on offer here. I was extremely sceptical of the Series 9 concept...
Abstract: Is the Samsung Series 9 an alternative to Apple's money-no-object MacBook Air? In the world of high-end ultraportables, few Windows laptops can rival Apple’s MacBook Air. It’s an exclusive club: Sony's VAIO Z Series and Dell’s now defunct Adamo have pr...
The design of the Series 9 is the most impressive part of this laptop, and although it's not quite as thin as the MacBook Air, it's easily as attractive. It's also incredibly slim and lightweight, making it a machine that you really can take with you wherever you go. The 13.3-inch screen gets a 1366 x 768-pixel resolution. It's relatively sharp, and offers excellent colour reproduction. It's also
With a machine this thin, there's no space for an optical drive. We didn't find this a problem, but it's worth considering before you buy. The Samsung also lags slightly behind the MacBook Air when it comes to the design of the bottom of the machine – while the top is finished in brushed aluminium, the bottom is a rather cheap feeling plastic.
Overall, however, the Series 9 is an excellent computer. It's a great choice for those seeking a Windows alternative to the Apple MacBook Air, even if there's not a lot in the specs or designs to differentiate the two machines. Samsung Series 9 laptop...
Thin and light, great screen, powerful processor and plenty of RAM
Expensive, Windows 7 Home Premium, limited ports and docking options
The Samsung 900X is, in many ways, a perfect laptop. However, it is missing some key features that make it less than ideal for business customers. If you can work around these, though, it's a powerful and useful machine...
It isn't the super sexy MacBook Air slayer you might have hoped for
The Samsung Series 9 is packing more power than any other Windows ultra portable, and it does so in an attractive looking shell. That said, the £1299 pricetag is something you need to give a long hard think about.If size and reasonable (rather than max...
Abstract: Thinner, lighter than AirThe 900X3A, also known as the Series 9, is nearly identical in size to the 13inch MacBook Air. It's ever so slightly thinner and lighter, but you'd never notice it unless you came armed with calipers and scales.First impressions a...
Overall, we can't help feeling that the Samsung promises more than it delivers. It's also more than £200 more expensive than the equivalent MacBook Air, so while the Samsung is well-matched with Apple's contender, it doesn't do enough to beat it. ...
