Samsung Notebook 9 Pro review

Samsung Notebook 9 Pro review

   The Samsung notebook 9 pro it is a mainstream laptop that gives you a little bit of everything, but the real standout is the pen support. So here we are with a notebook 9 pro, and we're just gonna go through the features from the top.

   This is a really nice 1920 x 1080 LED display, it's got not only a 720p webcam at the top, but also a face sensor, so you can actually use this to log in to Windows 10. You have here a really nice keyboard with little curved keys, I really enjoyed using a really nice sensitive trackpad .

   Underneath this is the configuration of an Intel Core i7 7500u 16 gigabytes of ddr4 Ram, a 256 gigabyte SSD and it's eSATA em - so pretty fast. It has a discreet Radeon 540 GPU, now discreet GPUs are still a little hard to find in a laptop . And that's one reason why this might cost a little bit more than you expect. But what you're getting with that is some good mid-range gaming performance. You're not going to play like a super intensive game on this, but if you're just starting out in games this will do just fine and one thing that I like about this laptop is that even though it has this Discrete GPU, it isn't that loud the fan.

   It has a 360 degree hinge so you can use it in tablet mode or watch a movie in tent mode and as I mentioned before, the real standout feature is the pen which is tucked right into the body and you might know the SPen if you already use a Samsung phablet or something.

   It's got the little button on here and you can summon all the little pin applications you have right on the screen and You can do something like write a note you, you can also do screen captures and you can even capture an animated gif which is super fun, you run a video and then stop and capture it and turn it into a gif. It's really really easy to do and what I love is that! You know already Samsung had this  pen support and some of their other products, and they're bringing over to Windows 10 Which also has pen support, so you suddenly have all these things you can do on your laptop that incidentally MacBooks can't do did I say that? Okay, so a few more things.


  Here are the ports on the laptop. It's got a USB see on this side as well as a full HDMI which and on the other side you have a couple of USB a's for all the USB a products We still want to connect to our laptops.

   I want to show you a view of the vents because I really want to emphasize that these events are really small and discreet You know again? They're not whooshing out tons of air so when you have this on your lap you don't feel like you're getting toasted.  The weight of  It's only three point eight pounds, which is not that bad as far as weight goes. The AC adapter (image below) is only Seven tenths of a pound more so the whole package if you really brought all this with you is only about four and a half Pounds which is bearable and again, you're getting a discrete GPU so you're gonna hit a little weight, but not that much.

   The only thing I would say about this laptop is that I really did not like the speakers. It's not a lot of room for them you're not going to get a lot of bass or something with these speakers is that they did not seem to have a lot of Volume.

   And I was really surprised that with all these other things that Samsung did with the display,  the hinge the keyboard, and in the discrete GPU.

   The notebook 9 Pro performed just about in line with what we would expect for a laptop with this configuration. We compared it to the HP spectre x360 that has almost exactly the identical configuration And so it did very well in sort of conventional work benchmarks. It did pretty well in our GPU intensive tests and actually surprisingly well in some of our CPU intensive tests.

    I would say overall that the performance on this is very good And one place where it stood out here was in battery life, it got 590 minutes of life in our  rundown test, which is a really nice long time, could definitely get you through a typical workday, and there's a bonus: you can actually charge this laptop using a USB C connected battery pack like you might use for your phone, but it would have to be a pretty big battery pack to recharge the note.



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