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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: 2011-03-31, Author: Mark , review by: tlbhd.com
The Samsung Series 9 is a very classy and versatile computer, being probably the lightest 13.3 inch computer out there and probably also the thinnest in its class. It has great hardware and is utterly enjoyable to use, but comes at a pretty steep price ...
Abstract: The Samsung 900X3A is a promising ultra-portable laptop. It closely matches the latest MacBook Air, our current favourite, with similar weight, size and features. The 900X3A could be a good alternative if you want to stick with Windows, but much will d...
Keyboard is inaccurate, offers little feedback, Touchpad needs work, is not sensitive
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The Samsung 900X3A is one of the sleekest notebooks we've ever come across, wtih the exception of the Macbook Air. And that really is what this fabulously stylish product is modelled after, in a sense, so we think it's quite a compliment to Apple in th...
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Much too expensive. Surprisingly lackluster performance, particularly at graphical tasks. SOL if you need a full SD card reader. Bummer clickpad problems
Though Apple was not the first to create an ultra slim notebook, the popularity of the Macbook Air did not go unnoticed. PC makers have been clamoring to produce a suitable rival and Samsung seems to be the first to succeed in its endeavor. The NP900X...
