Design
Usually a thin laptop chassis uses aluminum material, but the Samsung 9 Series using Duralumin chassis that is material in the manufacture of aircraft. With the composition of the dimensions of 12.9 "x 8.9" thick, 0.62 "~ 0.64" and weighs 1.4 kg, the laptop is priced at U.S. $ 1,699 is simple, lightweight and easily portable.
In terms of design, the Samsung 9 Series resembles Apple's MacBook Air. But the sharp curvature of each corner on a black chassis makes it different.
In addition there is a touch of chrome on the edge of the chassis, cover the USB ports are hidden and subtle curvature in the hinge that looks different than just laptops. Unfortunately, the chassis bottom of the laptop uses a plastic material made of layers of aluminum powder.
For connectivity, the Samsung 9 Series provides a connection portal hidden on the right and left of the laptop.
The left there is a USB 3.0 port, a HDMI port and an Ethernet connection port adapter. While on the right there is a USB 2.0 port, a microSD slot and a headphone jack 3.55 mm.
The combination of keyboard and trackpad are very good. That complements the backlit chicklet keyboard allows typing in low light room. Besides the keyboard area suburb shiny plastic coated material to the bottom of the screen. On the keyboard backlit brightness level can be set manually by pressing the Fn + F7 or Fn + F8.
Large trackpad is very comfortable and smooth to use. Features Multitouch gesture called SuperButton ClickPad facilitate basic computing. But less than perfect when compared to the MacBook Air trackpad. Because, it takes a little 'pressure' to terespon good gesture.
Gesture includes four fingers sliding up the desktop display, 4 fingers slide down to the Windows Aero Desktop, 2 finger scroll function for vertical and horizontal. There are at least 21 trackpad gestures supported. Among pinch, swipe, zoom, rotate and navigation software for processing 3D objects.
Screen
Samsung claims the Series 9 has a point of view of the screen up to 160 degrees both vertically and horizontally. HD 1.3 MP Webcam at the top of the screen allows users to make internet conversations on Skype. The dimensions of a 13.3-inch 1366x768 maximum resolution. Plus superbright technology brings 400nit brightness level.
Applications and battery life
When playing one video clip over and over again, browsing the web with WiFi connectivity, a six-cell 6300mAH battery is fully charged can only survive about 4 hours and 20 minutes. To use basic computing to the level of screen brightness to 75%, the battery power reaches nearly 5 hours. When compared with the MacBook Air, the battery resistance is different 25 minutes longer with the same level of brightness on the Samsung Series 9.
Various internal utility applications that Easy File Share, Easy Migration, Easy Network Management and application of 'easy' others have been grouped in one menu at the Start menu Samsung Windows 7 Home Premium.
Graphics performance
Processor Core i5-2537M 1.4 GHz and 4GB of RAM allows the course of the application, just click-and-go. A few applications simultaneously such as office, open web, video chatting, Yahoo Messenger, video and image editing is run without a hitch.
The storage capacity of 128GB SSDs speed up the booting process. The time needed from the BIOS page to the page of the desktop Windows 7 Home Premium only takes less than 20 seconds.
So also when the process of resuming from sleep / sleep only takes approximately 3 seconds. Samsung calls it PowerBack the system can wake from sleep states in 3 seconds. While the MacBook Air 13-inch boot takes up to 25 seconds and resuming 5 seconds.
Graphics performance than Intel Integrated HD 3000 makes playback of some video clips sized 1080p HD quality and running smoothly.
