New Samsung Series 9 Portable Ultrabook

Though not the first ultrabook terbaru portable, the original Macbook Air helped redefine the ultra light laptop. Limited versatility and a hefty sticker-price made it a tough sell at first. A few Windows based challengers came like the Dell Adamo, and the Lenovo X300/301 but were too expensive for wide acceptabce as well. In recent times, the ultra slim and light laptop has seen a resur gence thanks to lower prices and better technology.
Today the smaller 11.6" Macbook Air starts at US$999, almost half the price of the original, putting it within the grasp of average middle-class worker bees. It offers enough power get through daily rigors, more capability and flexibility than touchscreen tablets, and a form factor no larger or heavier than necessary. Its popularity has grown significantly since the original Mac Air. Samsung hopes to capture a piece of this quickly growing pie with the Series 9 laptops, ultra slim notebook PCs packing much of the same components, but loaded with Windows 7 and molded in Samsung's own hardware style.
The Series 9 notebooks all share the same basis, with different hardware configurations, denoted by a suffix attached to the base model number, NP900X3A. It's outrageously thin, just 15 16 mm, and very light as well, weighing 1.38 kg (just over 3 lbs) by our measurements. Packing a 13.3" backlit display, our Samsung 9 sample is a close match to the 13-inch Macbook Air, but aesthetically it's undeniably a Windows PC, albeit in a sleeker flavor than we're used to.

The NP900X3A.

The top cover, palm rest area, and the chrome lip running around the center of the machine is composed of duralumin, an aluminum alloy that Samsung claims is twice as strong at the same weight as old fashioned aluminum. The material is surprisingly stiff with no give whatsoever and has a fine brush finish. It is clearly quite rigid, yet is pleasant to touch, having a soft plastic-like feel. Fingerprints accumulate easily, however, and stand out visibly against the black background.
To ensure a thin and light body, ultrabook portable notebooks make some compromises to save space and extend battery life. The Series 9 is no exception, limited to Intel dual core ULV (ultra low voltage) Sandy Bridge processors which run well below 2 GHz, and lack a discrete graphics option. There isn't room for many external connectors, or an optical drive, and the battery isn't user-removable.

Box.

Package, contents.

Modular AC adapter.

The NP900X3A ships in a large, fancy black box with a velvety suede-like material covering the surface. It contains the laptop itself, an AC adapter, an RJ45 adapter (a standard RJ45 port takes up too much space so it was miniaturized into a proprietary connector), documentation, a driver/utility disc, and a large nylon mat of unknown purpose. The power adapter is compact, too: The 40W power brick is integrated with the cord in a surprisingly slim 7.8 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm form. it even has a detachable AC plug, presumably with different modules for various countries.

Samsung NP900X3A-A02CA: Specifications (from the product web page)
Operating System	Genuine Windows® 7 Professional (64-bit)
Processor	Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 2537M (1.40 GHz, 3 MB)
Resolution	LED HD
Main Chipset	Intel HM65
System Memory	8 GB (DDR3 / 4 GB x 2 )
LCD	13.3" LED HD (1366 x 768) 16 : 9
Graphic Processor	Intel GMA HD (Int. Graphic)
Graphic Memory	Shared Memory (Int. Graphic)
Sound	HD (High Definition) Audio
Sound Effect	SRS 3D Sound Effect
Speaker	3 W Stereo Speaker (1.5 W x 2)
TV	No
Integrated Camera	1.3 megapixel HD Webcam
HDD	256 GB (SSD)
Wired Ethernet LAN	Gigabit LAN
Wireless LAN	Intel 802.11 abgn (2 x 2) + BT3.0
I/O Port	HDMI, Headphone-out, Mic-in, Internal Mic, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0, Micro SD, RJ45, DC-In (power port)
Keyboard Type	82 key 81 key
Touch Pad, Touch Screen	Touch Pad (Scroll Scope, Flat Type, Gesture UI)
AC Adapter	40 Watt (wallmount type)
Standard Battery	6 Cell
Dimension (W x D x H mm)	328.5 x 227.0 x 15.9 16.3 mm (12.90" x 8.90" x 0.62" 0.64")
Weight (kg)	1.31 kg (2.88 lbs, SSD) / 1.35 kg (2.97 lbs, HDD)

source: http://www.silentpcreview.com/samsung-series9

The resolution isn't the only thing that has improved on the Series 9 screen, either: Samsung claims to have replaced the standard backlighting system with something it calls SuperBright Technology, resulting in an image that is up to 50 per cent brighter than rival laptop displays. For those who frequently use their laptops in brightly-lit environments, that could be a major selling point.

Performance

In our WorldBench 7 benchmark tests, the Series 9 scores an impressive 154. Thanks to this very high score and some very long battery life, it earned a overall performance score of 91 (relative to other ultraportable laptops). The average overall performance score of past three ultraportables we've tested is 76, so the Series 9 scores very well for its category.