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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
Impressively light. Backlit keyboard. Large touch pad. Good battery life. SSD is reasonably fast. Bundled software is unobtrusive
Multi-touch touch pad still dismays. Terrible speakers. Doesn't support 5GHz 802.11n. Gigabit Ethernet limited to USB 2.0 speeds. Micro HDMI to HDMI converter not included. microSD port isn't as useful as SD. Pricey
Samsung's Series 9 is a gorgeously thin piece of equipment, which would be great for any traveller looking for something light, thin and portable. If the MacBook Air is out of the question due to OS X, this may be your next port of call — just be prepa...
Impressively light, Backlit keyboard, Large touch pad, Good battery life, SSD is reasonably fast, Bundled software is unobtrusive
Multitouch touch pad still dismays
Samsung's Series 9 is a gorgeously thin piece of equipment, which would be great for any traveller looking for something light, thin and portable. If the MacBook Air is out of the question due to OS X, this may be your next port of call — just be prepa...
Excellent built quality and design, Fast SSD, Excellent screen
Wi-Fi adapter is not dual-band, Ambient light sensor is sometimes erratic, HDMI adapter isn't supplied
The Samsung Series 9 has strong build quality, a sleek design and many great features that make it comfortable to use. It's high price tag definitely makes it a luxury item, but if you want excellent mobility and usability in the same package, it's hard t...
Lighter and 'arguably' thinner than the MacBook Air; superb touchpad; ultra bright display;
Wireless app notification every five minutes is a little annoying but can be turned off; slightly underwhelming design when compared with the MacBook Air;
Lighter and 'arguably' thinner than the MacBook Air; superb touchpad; ultra bright display;
Wireless app notification every five minutes is a little annoying but can be turned off; slightly underwhelming design when compared with the MacBook Air;
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Published: 2011-03-29, Author: Scott , review by: cnet.com.au
A thin, stylish design, long battery life, excellent screen, and a new second-generation Intel Core i5 CPU make the Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A one of the best ultrathin Windows laptops we've ever seen
The Series 9's way-too-high sticker price makes the MacBook Air look downright affordable by comparison; the flexy case design doesn't feel as good as the MacBook Air's, either
The $1,649 Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A certainly won't be for every wallet, but this light, well-featured, and striking 13-incher is the closest the Windows world will ever come to a MacBook Air. However, its higher-than-the-Air price will be hard to stoma...
Abstract: We liked the look of the original Sandy Bridge-based Samsung Series 9 laptop, so the slimmer, even-more-lightweight Ivy Bridge-powered model had us salivating when we saw it at a preview in Sydney last month. But as always, the question with laptops i...
Abstract: The first impression given by Samsung’s new 900X notebook is that it is the Windows equivalent of the MacBook Air. It’s thin and light at 1.31 kg, but feels solid and firm to the touch. While the all black finish made it minimalistic in its appearance,...
Abstract: Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A-B01UB Laptop is one that ships in with the all the cool stuff stacked in the beautiful design. The laptop has come in as an initiative for the many that were looking in for the basic and durable one for all the necessary things t...
Abstract: When it comes to super-lightweight laptops there are two camps: the MacBook Air and everything else. There are plenty of smaller-scale notebooks that come close to matching the Air for size or performance, but no one other than Apple has quite managed to ...
