Samsung 900X4C-A04DE

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It wasn’t long until Samsung decided to join the ultrabook race. The series 9 is Samsung’s attempt at producing a Macbook Air competitor. This new version is lighter, smaller, and more affordable than not only the previous series 9 but also the Dell XPS13. The entire footprint is smaller making the laptop look like a 12 inch laptop. The specs are that of a standard ultrabook but with a slightly better screen resolution (1600x900). Obviously this can’t beat the Full-HD resolution of the Asus Zenbook UX32VD ultrabook but is just fine. Just like many other newer ultrabooks, the series 9 comes with the latest version of Intel processors under the Ivy Bridge platform which boosts up the performance by a little.

Made of a solid piece of aluminium, the new Series 9 also looks good. It has one of the best keyboards when compared to other ultrabooks. The keys are raised for better typing experience and it is backlit with a mild blue lighting. The touchpad on the other hand has some minor issues with its figure gesture operation. The built-in speakers aren’t that great as well when compared to some other ultrabooks. Samsung has only included two USB ports due to the very thin chassis but one of it is a USB 2.0 port which is surprising since every other manufacturer has moved to providing only USB 3.0 ports.

All in all, the new Samsung series 9 -13 inch laptop is a good ultrabook but price and specs wise it comes behind many other ultrabooks that are already in the market. Despite being thinner than the MacBook Air, it fails to be unique or premium.

Series:

At the Beginning of 2011, Samsung introduced the Series 9 with two new devices, which celebrated their debut at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas, shortly CES. Simultaneously Samsung has begun to change the series-discriptions and their sorting. In addition to the Ultra-Thin Series 9, Samsung provides the Series 2, 3 (B2C), 4 and 6 for Business-Notebooks, the Series 5 for devices with Google Chrome OS and also the new Series 7 Chronos plus Series 7 Gamer for multimedia- respectively gaming-users.

Back to Samsungs Series 9: After the introduction of the Samsung Series 9 900X3A (13.3 inch) and the smaller 900X1B Subnotebook (11.6 inch) the hype was relatively large, because apparently they seem to be the first available alternative to Apples MacBook Air series, which runs on Apples Mac OS X. High-quality displays and a chassis made of lightweight and sturdy Duraluminium are two key-assets of Samsung Series 9 devices. In comparison to the german retail-market, Samsung provides both devices to their US-Costumers from the beginning. The MSRP located between 1199.99 and 1649.99 US-Dollar.

Major advantages in our reviews of the Samsung Series 9 900X3A and 900X1B are the good battery life, the rapid SSD storage, the convincing display, the LED-Backlit keyboard and furthermore the attractive design. Disadvantages are the limited expandability, the port-positioning, the missing dockingport and the long battery charge time. On average, the review-ratings are above 80 percent and thereby in a good rating range.

Intel HD Graphics 4000: Processor graphics card in the high end Ivy Bridge models. Offers a different clock speed in the different CPU models (ULV to desktop quad core) and therefore a different performance. Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
3317U: Ivy-Bridge-based ULV-CPU in Q2 2012. Offers a core clock of 1.7 - 2.6 GHz and an HD 4000 GPU (350 - 1050 MHz). The TDP is rated at 17 W.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15":

This display size represents a treshold between the small sizes of subnotebooks and ultrabooks and the standard-sizes of office- and multimedia laptops on the other hand. Laptops with that size are somewhat rare, nowadays.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
1.672 kg:

This weight is typical for very big tablets, subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles with a 11-13 inch display-diagonal.

Samsung: The Samsung Group is composed of numerous international businesses, all united under the Samsung brand in South Korea. The meaning of the Korean word Samsung is "tristar" or "three stars". The Samsung brand is one of the most important brands of South Korea. Samsung is an international notebook manufacturer of medium size according market shares and reviews.

In 2015 and 2016, Samsung had a market share of around 24-25% in the global smartphone market and was undisputed market leader. In the laptop sector, Samsung is on the 8th place in the global manufacturer rankings from 2014-2016 with 1.7-2.7%.

In 2016 Samsung slipped into a crisis due to exploding smartphone batteries and a failed recall action.

81.75%: This rating should be considered to be average. This is because the proportion of notebooks which have a higher rating is approximately equal to the proportion which have a lower rating.
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