Hey, I'm here with Samsung notebook 9 pro
This is a mainstream laptop that gives you a little bit of everything, but the real standout is the pen support
So here we are with a notebook 9 pro, and we're just gonna go through the features from the top. This is a really nice
1920 by 1080 LED display, it's got not only a 720p webcam at the top
But also a face sensor, so you can actually use this to log in to Windows 10 using Windows hello
you have here a really nice keyboard with little curved keys that I really enjoyed using a really nice sensitive trackpad and
underneath this is the
configuration of an Intel Core i7
7500 u 16 gigabytes of ddr4 Ram a
256 gigabyte SSD and it's eSATA em - so pretty fast
And it has a discreet Radeon
540 GPU now discreet GPUs are still a little hard to find in a laptop
And that's one reason why this might cost a little bit more than you expect
But what you're getting with that is some good mid-range gaming performance
You're not going to play like a super intensive game on this
but if you're just starting out in games this will do just fine and
One thing that I like about this laptop is that even though it has this
Discrete GPU it isn't that loud the fan. Just is just this little discreet
That you can barely hear and the vents aren't like blowing out all this air constantly
So I think Samsung really did a good job of balancing the needs of a light gamer with?
You know still wanting basically a mainstream kind of laptop and not a big bulky hot you know real gaming laptop
So here's another standout feature on this laptop. It has a
360 degree hinge so you can use it in tablet mode
or watch a movie in tent mode and
as I mentioned before the real standout feature is the pen which is tucked right into the body here and
You might know the S Pen if you already use a Samsung phablet or something
It's got the little button on here and you can summon all the little pin
applications you have here right on the screen and
You can do something like write a note you and you can see I've already scribbled some notes here
And you can also do screen captures and you can even capture an animated gif which is super fun
You run a video and then stop and capture it and turn it into a gif
It's really really easy to do and what I love is that?
Samsung you know already had this pen support and some of their other products, and they're bringing over to Windows 10
Which also has pen support, so you suddenly have all these things you can do on your laptop that
Incidentally MacBooks can't do
Did I say that?
Okay, so a few more things. We should say about this
Here are the ports on the laptop. It's got a USB see on this side
As well as a full HDMI which I know my video friends are gonna love
And on the other side you have a couple of USB A's for all the USB a products
We still want to connect to our laptops
I want to show you a view of the vents because I really want to emphasize that these events are really small and discreet
You know again? They're not whooshing out tons of air so when you have this on your lap
You don't feel like you're getting toasted so here. I am hefting this thing
It's only three point eight pounds, which is not that bad as far as weight goes and the AC adapter is only
Seven tenths of a pound more so the whole package if you really brought all this with you is only about four and a half
Pounds which is bearable and again, you're getting a discrete GPU so you're gonna hit a little weight, but not that much
The only thing I would say about this laptop that I really didn't like is that the speakers
I mean let's be honest most laptop speakers. Don't expect very much right there. It's not a lot of room for them
You're not gonna get a lot of bass or something the thing with these speakers is that they didn't seem to have a lot of
Volume I mean I am NOT going deaf, and I'm like cranking this up
And I still feel like I can't hear the movie
And I was really surprised that with all these other things that
Samsung did with the display and the hinge and the keyboard in the discrete GPU
That somehow the speaker's just got you know left at the back of the bus so as for performance
The notebook 9 Pro performed just about in line with what we would expect for a laptop with this configuration
We compared it to the HP spectre x360 that has almost exactly the identical configuration
And so it did very well in sort of conventional work benchmarks
It did pretty well in our GPU intensive tests and actually surprisingly well in some of our CPU intensive tests
I would say overall that the performance on this is very good
And one place where it stood out here was in battery life
It got 590 minutes of life in our video rundown test
Which is a really nice long time should definitely get you through a typical workday, and there's a bonus you can actually
Charge this laptop using a USB C connected battery pack like you might use for your phone now
It would have to be a pretty big battery pack to recharge the notebook fully
But if you're running on fumes and you just still need to finish something just plug in your battery pack and that's a really nice
Convenience so what is you know kind of the takeaway for the notebook 9 Pro?
Is that Samsung really tried to balance everything out right give you good performance good features?
Plus a little bit of gaming so you can have a little fun on the side without giving you something. That's too heavy too hot
or too weak, honestly the only thing that was really weak about this laptop was the speakers and
As a result we're giving this laptop a rating of 4 stars