Samsung 900X4B Premium Super Thin Ultrabook Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to an unboxing of a product that's been through the war zone a
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little bit however the internal carton is not in rough shape but we do need
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this outside one so we can just cover the specs so this is the Samsung 900 x4b
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this is an ultra book but it is a 15in LED backlit 400 nit non- glossy display
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where Samsung is also claiming a 100 70°
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viewing angle so this is a very premium Ultrabook this is in their nine Series
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so you know it's not going to come cheap it comes with a dual core i5 which can
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turbo up to 2.3 GHz it also has 8 gigs of memory a 128 gig SSD and all your
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usual Wireless connectivity including Wireless N Bluetooth and Y Dy or
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wireless display so here's the internal carton which uses a nice matte black uh
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finish and silver Samsung Series 9
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lettering you got like the rainbow reflective thing imig okay let's open it
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up uh inside we find a power
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cable a notebook this has been unboxed before I apologize guys I'm re unboxing
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this particular product let's see what we got in here
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probably some manuals and Driver discs and ooh a microfiber
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cloth can never have enough of these
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system recovery media okay get started
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guide of like Windows or Google you can just use Google to research how to use
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Microsoft products cuz they're best of friends these days uh users's guide
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essential guide okay there we go let's go ahead and put all that back in there
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we are pretty much done with the documentation it has a one-ear warranty
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and it comes with a little adapter what's this guy for M uh there we go so
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that is oh okay it's just a micro USB to
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Ethernet adapter it's that it comes with that cuz some laptop manufacturers make
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you buy the adapter for the uh for the low profile ports which I think is sort
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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
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look at that that is a very very Sleek
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uh power brick and check that out that's a Windows COA I haven't seen one like
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that before it's on the power brick itself instead of on the
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laptop wow interesting
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okay slick apparently thinks that's not a very good idea
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um I'm sort of with them on that one CU a power brick is a lot easier to lose
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and not lose the laptop than it is to lose a laptop and like still need your
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Co-op for something so um anyway it is
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ah yes so now we get into the I mean check this out we have to do the iPhone
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comparison because when we have something that is as Slim and Sleek as
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this check that out so it is only 58 in
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thin at the edge that's the reason for needing the lowprofile pork for the uh
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for Wired networking because there just isn't enough room to build in a
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full-size RJ45 port on this notebook
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over what was it over 30,000 hours that
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is labor hours man hours went into the design of the aluminum unibody shell
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that Samsung is using for this notebook now this is a 15in notebook which means
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that in spite of the fact that you are using an Ultrabook you are not going to
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be limited in terms of your screen real estate or your res resolution it uses a
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1600x 900 screen and as I mentioned
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before it is a high brightness uh here we go so we'll show you the uh actually
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let's wait till it gets booted up although Samsung claims it boots up in
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less than 15 seconds which I think we're pretty much uh can we can say is
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verified now check that out that was the entire boot time from uh from start to
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finish wow that's actually really cool so I'd say the uh the side by side
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viewing angle is significantly better than the up down viewing angle however
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screen overall looks pretty good and
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my let's see did I say the resolution already yeah, 1600 by 900 okay so it's a
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15in 1600 by 900 it is extremely thin so
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we're going to do the iPhone comparison here again just to show you guys how
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skinny the top of this notebook is the overall build of it though feels
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excellent like you guys can see that in spite of its thinness here I'll show you
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how much Flex there is to the design almost nothing here and then on the
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keyboard itself self I mean I can't I
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can't do almost anything a plastic shell like triple the thickness of this one
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wouldn't have that kind of rigidity even if it's a really well-designed one the
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keyboard uses a chicklet style and this is not a bilingual keyboard although if
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you buy it in Canada iect there's a I suspect there's a chance you'll you'll
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get a bilingual keyboard you've got a very very large touchpad so that's
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really nice to see um yeah I guess that's I mean what else
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is there to really say ventilation holes are here there's your cooling fan
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although it's not even spinning right
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now oh there's one fan spinning in there somewhere but it's incredibly quiet
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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
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on this side we have our power in as well as USB 2 headphone microphone mini
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HDMI or is that micro HDMI that's micro HDMI I think very small HDMI okay and
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there's that network adapter Port dad there's a microphone in so it actually
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has a built-in microphone for you know webcamming it up there's your
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webcam don't worry trust me it's there uh two USB 3.0 ports as well as hold
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on sorry guys yep that is a VGA out so
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you will need an adapter for that one uh also we have an SD card reader that's
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kind of nice fulls size SD card reader under a little flap here so I just want
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to make a few comments on the overall build quality of the notebook this is significantly better than the other two
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ultra books that we took a look at um on my NC Tech tips channel the Zenbook as
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well as the MacBook Air it just feels really really really solid the hinge
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feels good too I mean I can with confidence hold up this notebook by the
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edges here and kind of Swing things around like it feels incredibly strong
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considering the petite form factor that we're dealing with here I mean remember
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guys the electronics can keep getting smaller and more efficient and more
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miniaturized but when it comes to you know building hinges that are durable
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the technology is just like you just have to spend a bunch of money on the
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materials there's no uh there's no magic bullet where like you can refine the
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manufacturing process and make the transistor smaller so it's you know
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easier to build a a durable hinge no you just have to actually build a durable
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hinge um I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out this oh
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actually hold on I'll okay has an8 cell battery didn't mention that before we
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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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