Samsung's Notebook 9 laptops take 'thin-and-light' to a beautiful extreme

[jos]

\Windows laptops from Samsung are all about shaving off the last millimeter of thickness and last possible milligram of weight. The 13.3-inch variant weighs just 0.84kg / 1.85lbs while the 15-inch Notebook 9 rises to 1.29kg / 2.84lbs. If those numbers aren't doing a good enough job of conveying exactly how light these machines are, just take a piece of thick cardboard, fold it in half and you'll have a pretty realistic home model.

Both computers use low-voltage models from Intel's latest Skylake generation of processors, with specs scaling up to a maximum of a Core i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of SSD storage for the 15-inch Notebook 9 or 128GB for the 13-incher.

 

 

Remember, the new Skylake Intel processors have fantastic battery life, which will be important, because it appears that Samsung has cut the weight by skimping a little bit on battery. The 13 and 15-inch models have 30Wh and 39Wh batteries respectively. Consider that the superlight and fantastic Dell XPS 13 has a 56Wh battery

 

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/5/10714528/samsung-notebook-9-windows-10-laptop-announced-ces-2016

[Syntaxvgm]

oh look

ports

[C0LL0SS0S]

why can't we have more efficent CPUs AND big batteries ?

[flibberdipper]

Still better than a MacBook since it isn't a glorified iPad with one port.

[mr.squishy]

What do you mean people want more hardware and bigger batteries? CLEARLY they want useless thin devices!

UGHHHHHHHH

[Sauron]

They aren't thinner than a ux305, it just looks slimmer because it curves under like the macbook. In that I only see wasted space that could have held a larger battery or more ports.

 

Still better than a MacBook since it isn't a glorified iPad with one port.

 

it doesn't take much to be better than the macbook

[flibberdipper]

They aren't thinner than a ux305, it just looks slimmer because it curves under like the macbook. In that I only see wasted space that could have held a larger battery or more ports.

 

 

it doesn't take much to be better than the macbook

truuuuuu

[boarder2k7]

oh look

ports

This. I hate the port less stuff. I'm also not a big fan of all the ports being on the right of my current notebook. Makes it hard for right handed users (which is something like 90%) to use a mouse while anything is plugged in.

Ports shouldn't be that hard...

why can't we have more efficent CPUs AND big batteries ?

Because Apple ruined it for all of us.

The lack of available track pad buttons is also their fault.

[Guest Generallee]

Because Apple ruined it for all of us.

The lack of available track pad buttons is also their fault.

 

Boohoo, apple ruined it for all of us because now all the other brands are copying them

[C0LL0SS0S]

This. I hate the port less stuff. I'm also not a big fan of all the ports being on the right of my current notebook. Makes it hard for right handed users (which is something like 90%) to use a mouse while anything is plugged in.

Ports shouldn't be that hard...

Because Apple ruined it for all of us.

The lack of available track pad buttons is also their fault.

haha dude, I get it that ya all hate apple but thats a bit too much

[Doobeedoo]

They look great, specially screen to bezel space. Would be nice to see these kind of machines with stronger hardware later on though, maybe an next gen AMD Zen APU that would be sweet.

[boarder2k7]

Boohoo, apple ruined it for all of us because now all the other brands are copying them

haha dude, I get it that ya all hate apple but thats a bit too much

Apple is the company who really started pushing for thinner and thinner devices, and popularized the horrible practice of calling something "x measurement thin" so it seems fair to partly blame that market trend on them. They have pushed that ad campaign so far that all consumers, mac users or not, have been exposed to it enough that it seems to have become a marketing must do.

Same can be said for the button less track pads.

[C0LL0SS0S]

Apple is the company who really started pushing for thinner and thinner devices, and popularized the horrible practice of calling something "x measurement thin" so it seems fair to partly blame that market trend on them. They have pushed that ad campaign so far that all consumers, mac users or not, have been exposed to it enough that it seems to have become a marketing must do.

Same can be said for the button less track pads.

Thats kinda stupid, Samsung could have pushed the trend in a different direction but they gave up and followed the path apple choose

[Castdeath97]

oh lookports

Except displayport and thunderbolt *sigh* at least it's still good anyhow.

[Syntaxvgm]

This. I hate the port less stuff. I'm also not a big fan of all the ports being on the right of my current notebook. Makes it hard for right handed users (which is something like 90%) to use a mouse while anything is plugged in.

Ports shouldn't be that hard...

Because Apple ruined it for all of us.

The lack of available track pad buttons is also their fault.

I don't know man the macbook pro is one of the best trackpads I've ever used. It's not apple's fault that people imitate that and fail.

I don't know why trackapds are always so inconsistent in design and terrible, but they are. You'd think someone would find something that works and stick to it.

[Guest Generallee]

Apple is the company who really started pushing for thinner and thinner devices, and popularized the horrible practice of calling something "x measurement thin" so it seems fair to partly blame that market trend on them. They have pushed that ad campaign so far that all consumers, mac users or not, have been exposed to it enough that it seems to have become a marketing must do.

Same can be said for the button less track pads.

 

But on the other hands, no other trackpad can rival Apple's. so in the end, you cannot reinvent the wheel, but you can make it better, and people will always complain about it that's how the world works.

[2FA]

Except displayport and thunderbolt *sigh* at least it's still good anyhow.

Except I see a type C connector which if is also 3.1 will allow DisplayPort and Thunderbolt.

[Castdeath97]

Except I see a type C connector which if is also 3.1 will allow DisplayPort and Thunderbolt.

 

I pull my complaints then, this gonna be good.

[potoooooooo]

Pricing?

[Guest Kloaked]

oh look

ports

 

USB A, C and an HDMI port if I'm seeing correctly.

 

I bet Apple would say this isn't a very elegant design.

[Dabombinable]

Making a laptop thinner doesn't make it look good......I've got an old 4KG notebook/desktop replacement that looks better than most newer computers (got to cut it some slack in the weight department, its got a P4 HT 3.2GHz+2x CPU heatsinks+a 15.5" 16:10 screen+JBL Pro speakers+a FDD+DVD drive+12cell battery).

[spartaman64]

Thats kinda stupid, Samsung could have pushed the trend in a different direction but they gave up and followed the path apple choose

i blame them both and the consumers who lets apple tell them "what they need"