14 DAY TRIAL // The market for ultraportable laptops may not be an overly large one, but even with their high prices they go on strutting amongst those willing to pay for convenience, Samsung's Series 9 being just the most recent example.
The thing with ultraportable mobile computers is that they do not have too high a performance level, focusing, instead, on design.
More specifically, such machines are made thin and light, possibly with subtle aesthetic embellishments, so as to fit in with high fashion.
Samsung's Series 9 notebook definitely fits into this category and even has an extra asset in the form of a higher durability than one might expect.
Basically, the case of the laptop is constructed out of Duralumin, which is twice as strong as regular aluminum.
The hardware of the newcomer is set up around the 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5-2537M central processing unit (CPU), while the screen size is of 13 inches.
4 GB of DDR3 memory exist, along with a solid state drive whose capacity is of 128 GB.
A discrete GPU is, unsurprisingly, absent, meaning that the CPU's built-in solution gets full reign over the LCD.
Speaking of the LCD, the panel has a brightness of 400 nits (is of the SuperBright variety), quite a bit higher than the screens most notebooks nowadays come with.
What's more, the color reproduction is no less impressive (16 million colors) while the contrast ratio is a nice 1,300:1 (Super Contrast).
All the above are somehow packed inside a frame that has a thickness of 0.64 inches, while the total weight is a paltry 1.31 kilograms.
Finally, TCO certification implies that the product meets all necessary usability and environment-friendliness criteria.
Online stores should already have it up for sale at $2,488, not a small tag to be sure, but it comes with the territory.