Samsung Ativ Book 9

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Design

Both the appearance and portable experience are Ativ Book 9 exudes luxury. Aluminum body of the Ativ Book 9 is covered with a black gray Samsung named ‘Mineral Ash Black “(roughly translated: Mineral Ash Black) slightly tilt it to the light blue. Flange connection between the base and the screen at the edges slightly bo silver while silver Samsung logo on the back also the machine acts as a decorative details very luxurious.

With 37.4 x 25 x size 1,6cm and weighs nearly 2kg, Ativ Book 9 significantly thinner and lighter than the 15.6-inch laptops competitors. For example, the Toshiba Satellite P50T size of 37.8 x 24.4 x up to 2.8 cm and weighs 2,36kg while the Dell Inspiron 15 37.8 x 25.4 size x 2 , 29cm and weighing 2,54kg. Even Apple’s MacBook Pro 15 also offers up to 35.8 x size 24.6 x 1.8 cm and weighs 2kg.

Screen

15.6-inch touch screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels of the Ativ Book 9 brings experience very pleasant to use in evaluation of Laptopmag: vivid colors and wide viewing angles. Both the second trailer for the film X-Men: Days of Future Past and Guardians of the Galaxy is Samsung’s premium notebook impressively recreated. For example, blue on the skin of the character’s mystique or green Gamora become extremely brilliant, the wrinkles on the forehead of Wolverine, he will not be missed.

In experiments measuring the color range of Laptopmag, Ativ Book 9 clearly showed strength by 98.2% can reproduce the sRGB standard color range, much higher than the average level of 80.3% of the laptop segment system (multi-purpose laptops: work, play digital content, gaming …). Satellite P50T screen can only display 87% of the sRGB color range, but still less than the Ativ Book 9 Inspiron 15 with visibility of 103% sRGB color range.

Color accuracy Ativ Book 9 of Delta E test measurements (0 points equivalent to the absolute accuracy) of 5.5 points, worse than the 3.3 of the Satellite P50T but better so than the Inspiron 15 11.9.

In the 279-nit brightness, Ativ Book 9 surpassed the average level of 256-nit mainstream laptop segment, the 229-nit of Satellite P50T and the Inspiron 211-nit of 15. However, Ativ Book 9 can not surpassing the Dell XPS 15 with senior screen brightness up to 364-nit.

In return, the color of the screen Ativ Book 9 has not been washed or deformation even when the viewer moves left or right 90 degrees. Touchscreen 10-points of this laptop is also very sensitive to the touch gestures of users: the test of Laptopmag, the editors were able to draw all 10 fingers at once in Windows Paint.

Speakers

With Dolby Digital software, sound by stereo speakers of the Ativ Book 9 brings not only great, but also clearly accurate enough for you to enjoy music. Even when you play more songs like Forget Me nots bass or guitar and more songs like How You Like Me Available Now, Ativ Book 9 without having thin sound phenomena, dazzling. Even the Ativ Book 9 can separate the tonal range in 2-channel stereo tracks by (1 of each instrument was recorded only for the channel or channels to the left).

Ativ Book 9’s sound big enough to those of a medium-sized room can enjoy. Maximum volume reached 86dB, equal to the average mainstream laptop segment and 84dB higher than the XPS 15. Dolby Digital Software equalizer also allows changing the sound for music, movies and games .

Keyboard and touchpad

Spacious Chiclet keyboard Ativ Book 9 brings good typing experience despite the press quite shallow and weak force feedback. At a maximum press force of 1mm and receive key press is 50 grams, less than the Ativ Book 9 Satellite P50T (2 mm, 60 grams) and Inspiron 15 (1.5 mm, 60 grams).

Ativ Book 9 touchpad no physical buttons and 10.8 x 7.6 cm in size. The quality of the touchpad on the Ativ Book 9 is also quite good, bring hover experience precisely whether the phenomenon sometimes still having not received the motion. Touch gestures such as sliding your hands on Windows 8 to activate the menu or screen charm applications are identified and implemented smoothly. While the pull-to-gesture zoom works quite accurately, Laptopmag was unable to activate the touch gestures such as rotate with two fingers or hand slipped 3 fingers.

Radiators

Ativ Book 9 is one of the few high-end laptops have very good heat dissipation capability. After 15 minutes of video projection, the Ativ Book 9 touchpad temperature of 26.1 degrees Celsius, while only the keyboard and the machine’s lower body temperatures are 31.7 degrees C.

In the process of using your laptop, you will not be able to feel the heat when the temperature is below 32 laptop degrees C and will also encounter unpleasant only when the body temperature up to 35 degrees C. The temperature of the radiating Ativ Book 9 at all locations are below this level.

Connectivity and webcams

Due to the ultra-thin size should Ativ Book 9 is the number of connections is limited. Right body 1 USB 3.0 ports and 1 USB 2.0 port, Kensington lock slot, card reader and 3-in-1 accessory port LAN connection. The left side of the machine is an HDMI port, a USB 3.0 port and a VGA port.

Ativ Book 9 webcam’s 720p for brilliant colors but are earning too much noise even in direct sunlight. In the dark room, the image obtained is even darker and more noise, though still good enough at acceptable levels.

Performance

With 1,6GHz i5 processor, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD and Intel HD 4400 graphics, Ativ Book 9 performance than enough for your daily activities such as surfing the web or watching videos. However, the integrated graphics of the Ativ Book 9 is not strong enough to play games or edit video / CAD.

On PCMark7 benchmarking programs, Ativ Book 9 4681 scores, surpassing the 4093 average mainstream laptop segment. However, thanks to the Core i7 processors, the Satellite P50T (5637) and XPS 15 (5806) can still pass the Ativ Book 9 easily.

Similarly, in the synthetic benchmark tests Geekbench 3, the Ativ Book 9 scored only 5.151, lower than the 8642 average of the segment. All the competing products are overwhelming score Ativ Book 9: 15-inch MacBook Pro scored 13 652, 11 630 XPS 15 reached also reached 12 552 Satellite P50T.

128GB Solid State Drive of the Ativ Book 9 takes only 8 seconds to boot Windows 8.1 Pro, 2x faster at 17 seconds of the Satellite P50T 19 seconds and the average of the segment. Even XPS 15 also take up to 14 seconds to boot Windows 8.

Ativ Book 9 takes 57 seconds to complete the test copy of Laptopmag 5GB of data, equivalent to the speed of read / write data 89.3 MB / s, slightly higher than the average level of 86 MB / sec, but the too slow compared to the MacBook Pro (309 MB / sec) and XPS 15 (231.3 MB / sec).

Open Office Spreadsheet Macro test (20,000 transplants in the address name) took 5 minutes 21 seconds to complete on the Ativ Book 9 score of premium branded laptop Samsung is higher than the average of 5 minutes 32 seconds a considerable space matter and are Satellite P50T (3:59) outstripped.

Graphics performance

You can watch HD movies on the Ativ Book 9, but this laptop is not powerful enough for gaming graphics. In benchmark tests 3DMark Ice Storm graphics, Ativ Book 9 was only 40 102 points, much lower than the average level 46 898. XPS 15 with 56,113 points, while the Satellite P50T reach 51,390 points.

In testing the game World of Warcraft at 1366 x 768 pixel resolution and a custom auto, Ativ Book 9 speed 41 frames / sec. When increasing the resolution to 1920 x 1080 pixels, Ativ Book 9 has surpassed playable (30 frames / sec) with the results of 34 frames / sec. Ativ score only one half of the average (83/90 frames / second) at a resolution 2 above. XPS 15 to 86 frames / second at a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels and 59 frames / second at full HD resolution.

When enabled graphical effects, Ativ Book 9 to very disappointing results: 22 frames / sec (1366 x 768 pixels) and 15 frames / sec (Full HD).

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Battery

In testing surf at 100-nit brightness continuously via Wi-Fi, Ativ Book 9 achieved a battery life up to 8 hours 38 minutes, far exceeding the average of 6 hours 19 minutes. Satellite P50T achieve a battery life of 2 hours only … 38 minutes, while the XPS 15 is quite impressive at 7 pm 07. MacBook Pro (8 hours 57 mins) Ativ Book 9 just over a considerable distance: 20 minutes.

Software

Just like on smartphones and tablets, the Samsung Ativ Book 9 was built some software … garbage, of which only one of the few really useful applications to users. For example, Samsung Link app allows you to share content easily with other Samsung devices (smartphone, tablet, PC). Samsung SideSync allows you to control your phone from a PC when connected via USB, so you can use the smartphone as one window on the Ativ Book 9 or copy files.

S Play + will play music and video, while the S Photo app lets you edit photos relatively simple on the touch screen of the Ativ Book 9.