welcome to an unboxing of a product that's been through the war zone a
little bit however the internal carton is not in rough shape but we do need
this outside one so we can just cover the specs so this is the Samsung 900 x4b
this is an ultra book but it is a 15in LED backlit 400 nit non- glossy display
where Samsung is also claiming a 100 70°
viewing angle so this is a very premium Ultrabook this is in their nine Series
so you know it's not going to come cheap it comes with a dual core i5 which can
turbo up to 2.3 GHz it also has 8 gigs of memory a 128 gig SSD and all your
usual Wireless connectivity including Wireless N Bluetooth and Y Dy or
wireless display so here's the internal carton which uses a nice matte black uh
finish and silver Samsung Series 9
lettering you got like the rainbow reflective thing imig okay let's open it
up uh inside we find a power
cable a notebook this has been unboxed before I apologize guys I'm re unboxing
this particular product let's see what we got in here
probably some manuals and Driver discs and ooh a microfiber
cloth can never have enough of these
system recovery media okay get started
guide of like Windows or Google you can just use Google to research how to use
Microsoft products cuz they're best of friends these days uh users's guide
essential guide okay there we go let's go ahead and put all that back in there
we are pretty much done with the documentation it has a one-ear warranty
and it comes with a little adapter what's this guy for M uh there we go so
that is oh okay it's just a micro USB to
Ethernet adapter it's that it comes with that cuz some laptop manufacturers make
you buy the adapter for the uh for the low profile ports which I think is sort
of ludicrous if you're going to build the port into the laptop you might as well make it so I can use it we have wow
look at that that is a very very Sleek
uh power brick and check that out that's a Windows COA I haven't seen one like
that before it's on the power brick itself instead of on the
laptop wow interesting
okay slick apparently thinks that's not a very good idea
um I'm sort of with them on that one CU a power brick is a lot easier to lose
and not lose the laptop than it is to lose a laptop and like still need your
Co-op for something so um anyway it is
ah yes so now we get into the I mean check this out we have to do the iPhone
comparison because when we have something that is as Slim and Sleek as
this check that out so it is only 58 in
thin at the edge that's the reason for needing the lowprofile pork for the uh
for Wired networking because there just isn't enough room to build in a
full-size RJ45 port on this notebook
over what was it over 30,000 hours that
is labor hours man hours went into the design of the aluminum unibody shell
that Samsung is using for this notebook now this is a 15in notebook which means
that in spite of the fact that you are using an Ultrabook you are not going to
be limited in terms of your screen real estate or your res resolution it uses a
1600x 900 screen and as I mentioned
before it is a high brightness uh here we go so we'll show you the uh actually
let's wait till it gets booted up although Samsung claims it boots up in
less than 15 seconds which I think we're pretty much uh can we can say is
verified now check that out that was the entire boot time from uh from start to
finish wow that's actually really cool so I'd say the uh the side by side
viewing angle is significantly better than the up down viewing angle however
screen overall looks pretty good and
my let's see did I say the resolution already yeah, 1600 by 900 okay so it's a
15in 1600 by 900 it is extremely thin so
we're going to do the iPhone comparison here again just to show you guys how
skinny the top of this notebook is the overall build of it though feels
excellent like you guys can see that in spite of its thinness here I'll show you
how much Flex there is to the design almost nothing here and then on the
keyboard itself self I mean I can't I
can't do almost anything a plastic shell like triple the thickness of this one
wouldn't have that kind of rigidity even if it's a really well-designed one the
keyboard uses a chicklet style and this is not a bilingual keyboard although if
you buy it in Canada iect there's a I suspect there's a chance you'll you'll
get a bilingual keyboard you've got a very very large touchpad so that's
really nice to see um yeah I guess that's I mean what else
is there to really say ventilation holes are here there's your cooling fan
although it's not even spinning right
now oh there's one fan spinning in there somewhere but it's incredibly quiet
right okay so here let's let's finish let's show okay right right right right right IO and all that okay here we go so
on this side we have our power in as well as USB 2 headphone microphone mini
HDMI or is that micro HDMI that's micro HDMI I think very small HDMI okay and
there's that network adapter Port dad there's a microphone in so it actually
has a built-in microphone for you know webcamming it up there's your
webcam don't worry trust me it's there uh two USB 3.0 ports as well as hold
on sorry guys yep that is a VGA out so
you will need an adapter for that one uh also we have an SD card reader that's
kind of nice fulls size SD card reader under a little flap here so I just want
to make a few comments on the overall build quality of the notebook this is significantly better than the other two
ultra books that we took a look at um on my NC Tech tips channel the Zenbook as
well as the MacBook Air it just feels really really really solid the hinge
feels good too I mean I can with confidence hold up this notebook by the
edges here and kind of Swing things around like it feels incredibly strong
considering the petite form factor that we're dealing with here I mean remember
guys the electronics can keep getting smaller and more efficient and more
miniaturized but when it comes to you know building hinges that are durable
the technology is just like you just have to spend a bunch of money on the
materials there's no uh there's no magic bullet where like you can refine the
manufacturing process and make the transistor smaller so it's you know
easier to build a a durable hinge no you just have to actually build a durable
hinge um I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out this oh
actually hold on I'll okay has an8 cell battery didn't mention that before we
did mention the specs yeah I think that pretty much wraps it up so thank you for checking out this unboxing in first look
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