The requirements for the Ultrabook were numerous for me. If I already spend well over 1,000 euros, is to spoil the overall impression no shortcoming.
Especially important to me (with decreasing order of importance)
- High mobility: Long battery life, light weight, small size, bright screen, no throttling of the performance in battery mode
- SSD
- Low volume
- High working and multimedia speed, enough power for one or the other games
- A very good display with touch functionality
All these main requirements are easily met by Samsung and supplemented by many other things.
- The laptop battery will last right through long. I've already done about 6 hours under intensive use. Especially important for me as a teacher: I can finally save the charger for working me.
- The display is, at least when the sun does not burn brightly enough to out to work directly in the display. Power reduction is a foreign word.
- Large and fast SSD. With all installed work programs were well 180 GB (including Office) free. That's enough for all "mobile" data.
- The working and multimedia speed leaves no wish unfulfilled. Play is limited.
- The Samsung has the best display I've had so far. Also good is the touch screen that responds beautifully to all inputs.
Other positive things:
- The ultrabook has a very high material quality. Nothing gets tangled up, the case is very sturdy and feels the same high quality. Nevertheless, the weight has remained low.
- The display hinges hold the screen very stable even when touch input. Also I know only worse in other Ultrabooks!
- The fan can be disabled completely, but are also in the running state barely audible. I am very sensitive to volume. No problem for the Ultrabook! Class I find also that the fan vents on the top of the central display hinge are. So you can well sit on the lap the device.
- Small and lightweight charger which quickly inflated also power the device.
- Good and sufficiently large-sized ClickPad. The stupid right mouse button have somehow all Clickpads together. The works randomly.
- On a suitable substrate, the small 2W speakers make enough noise in decent quality. Although the devil boxes laugh about it, but for this the small size JBL Böxchen are quite fine.
Even the look of the Ultrabook makes much. The rounded bottom there acts again thinner than it is. The titanium-colored surface is super!
Neutral points:
- People with defective vision, I recommend a good spectacle: Full HD 13.3 "is pretty small!
- The variety of connections corresponding to the current standard. Dazzling, it is not yet. After all, a real network connection with hinged socket is integrated. 3xUSB, 1xSD, 1xHDMI, 1 useless mini-VGA and Kensington lock round off the features.
- The JBL speakers are positioned on the bottom of the notebook. Downside: If the notebook is on a soft surface (eg, pillow), the boxes are easily concealed and sound dull.
A few negative things I want to mention yet:
- Naughty I find it that Samsung shelled out another 30 euros for the often necessary VGA adapter. Priced at € 1,400 for the laptop and estimated production cost of 2 euros for the adapter part had really been there! A micro-fiber cloth for quick polluting touchscreen would the profit margin of Samsung probably not dramatically reduced ...
- Unfortunately, SD cards will not disappear completely in the slot, but are about 2-3 mm from the slot out. A permanent memory expansion is therefore only possible with restrictions
- When opened my copy wobbles slightly because of a somewhat too short stand. For me but not rudimentary bad enough to convert the baby ;-)
Total me the Ultrabook has completely convinced. I had probably never been a thoroughly enjoyable piece of hardware. All this puts even the high price of 1400 Euro. Competition models, eg ASUS costs partially even more, but have inferior hardware.
Who is looking for what is probably the best Ultrabook (I say even the best notebook) to this agent should thus take very closely examined. Full kudos to Samsung!
