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Samsung Series 9 NP900X1A-A01US 11.6-Inch Laptop (Black)

3.2 3.2 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
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Brand SAMSUNG
Model Name series 9
Screen Size 11.6 Inches
Color Black
CPU Model Core i3-380UM
Ram Memory Installed Size 2 GB
Operating System Windows 7
Graphics Card Description Integrated
Graphics Coprocessor Intel HD Graphics 3000
CPU Speed 1.33 GHz

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  • Intel Core i3 Processor 1.33GHz
  • 2GB DDR3 RAM
  • 64GB Solid-State Hard Drive
  • 11.6-Inch Screen
  • Windows 7 Home Premium
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Samsung 9 Series 11.6W 900X1A-A01 Premium Notebook

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Customer reviews

3.2 out of 5 stars
3.2 out of 5
31 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the appearance, portability, and WiFi of the laptop. They mention that it has a wonderful matte finish, and is incredibly lightweight. They appreciate the brightness, saying that the screen is very bright. They are also satisfied with the build quality, and quality. However, some customers are disappointed with the heat and disagree on speed.

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13 customers mention13 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the appearance of the notebook computer. They mention it's nice looking, sleek, and sexy. They also love the matte LCD screen, which has good colors and a wonderful finish.

"...2. Love the matte LCD screen. I have solid black color as my desktop background. And it is the true black color...." Read more

"great exterior design, too bad it's hopelessly slow and thus not usable. Portability is only worthwhile if the computer can actually be useful." Read more

"...The screen quality is excellent, bright display and vivid colors...." Read more

"...Other than that I found the computer durable, fast enough, and very stylish. The screen will be missed but I needed more real estate." Read more

12 customers mention12 positive0 negative

Customers like the portability of the laptop. They say it's incredibly lightweight, slim, and portable. Some mention that the screen is spot on.

"...Handy, stylish, portable, light, and productive...." Read more

"...Here are my initial thoughts:Positive:[*]Size, weight, build quality feels equal to the MBA...." Read more

"...and I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for an extremely portable, 2.3 pound, laptop with good performance, an awesome screen, backlit..." Read more

"...It's not a highperformance machine, but it's mobile and hundred times more attractive than ugly and thick netbooks :-)" Read more

10 customers mention7 positive3 negative

Customers like the build quality of the notebook computer. They say it's well made, tough, and feels solid. Some mention that the hardware is great and the screen quality is excellent.

"...So while the hardware on this laptop is very good, the custom firmware samsung wrote is pathetic and makes this laptop a poor choice compared to the..." Read more

"I returned this computer. It's really a slick piece of equipment, but the hard drive, after the installation of the operating system and other pre-..." Read more

"...Other than that I found the computer durable, fast enough, and very stylish. The screen will be missed but I needed more real estate." Read more

"...it appears almost like an aircraft wing in profile, with a sense of quality materials and craftsmanship throughout. The fit and finish is flawless...." Read more

10 customers mention7 positive3 negative

Customers like the wifi performance of the laptop. They mention that it performs well for an ultra-portable laptop, and that the touchpad works well.

"...It works great. (I use GalaxyTab 7.0 separately for all media files.)[Now the Pros]1...." Read more

"...This screen is fantastic. Sharp text, good colors, and excellent (best I've ever seen) brightness.[*]..." Read more

"...The touchpad works well, but Macuser will need maybe a little bit more patience as it doesn't scroll pages as sweet as Macs do...." Read more

"...The point was to get rid of samsungs crapware and poor drivers and use stock windows, not get a replacement laptop with the same problems and..." Read more

8 customers mention8 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the brightness of the laptop. They mention that the screen is very bright, and the backlit keyboard is wonderful. They also appreciate the auto-brightness feature, which activates the backlight and auto-illuminating keyboard. Overall, most are happy with the quality and performance of this product.

"...4. Auto-Brightness: I damaged my eyes due to my old laptop LCD display; I can't look at LCD screens for more than 1~2 hours...." Read more

"...The screen quality is excellent, bright display and vivid colors...." Read more

"...This screen is fantastic. Sharp text, good colors, and excellent (best I've ever seen) brightness.[*]..." Read more

"...2.3 pound, laptop with good performance, an awesome screen, backlit keyboard, that also says a little something about you...." Read more

7 customers mention7 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the quality of the laptop. They mention it's a great computer, amazing piece of tech, and a next-gen PC laptop. The laptop is refined, very user friendly, and very useful. It has a sleek, sexy, and understated design.

"...All in all, I think this is a great next-gen PC laptop...." Read more

"...This screen is fantastic. Sharp text, good colors, and excellent (best I've ever seen) brightness.[*]..." Read more

"...Sophisticated, sleek, sexy, understated, but ready to rumble! There is a definite "Wow!"..." Read more

"...recomend it to everyone who only needs a fast, light and very useful small laptop...." Read more

12 customers mention8 positive4 negative

Customers are mixed about the speed of the notebook computer. Some mention that it's durable, fast enough, and stylish. The wireless speeds have been fast, and the core i3 is blazing fast. The battery charges up blazily, and it'll boot up instantly. However, some say that it is hopelessly slow and thus not usable, and that rendering previews are terribly slow.

"...1. The battery charges up blazingly fast...." Read more

"...The core i3 is blazing fast and boots up instantly - under 7 seconds, whereas windows boots up in about 35 seconds on the macbook air (bootcamp) -..." Read more

"...Just about everything else I do on the laptop the speed is fine. Not fast, but fine. But in Lightroom it can be terribly slow rendering previews...." Read more

"great exterior design, too bad it's hopelessly slow and thus not usable. Portability is only worthwhile if the computer can actually be useful." Read more

5 customers mention0 positive5 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the heat produced by the notebook. They mention that the bottom side gets a little warmer than their hand, and the Intel Core i3 CPU and/or GPU heat up just like any other regular.

"...the bottom side gets a little warmer than your hand. That's all. The upper portion, keyboard side, and the LCD doesn't heat up at all.)..." Read more

"...When this thing is really working it gets quite warm on the bottom. On the MBA you hardly ever (never?) heard a fan running...." Read more

"...But if you have steady hands, its not a problem. And yes the computer gets hot, thats what everyone says, but it doesnt bother me and it doesnt..." Read more

"...fast shipping. not windows 8. EXTREMELY CHEAP!Cons: little heat...." Read more

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Tomcat
5.0 out of 5 stars Carrying a laptop used to be a huge burden. Well, not any more...
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2011
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[Cons First]
1. Since my Galaxy Tab 7.0 never heats up, I bought this Samsung laptop, thinking that I wouldn't have to worry about my laptop heating up. I was wrong. The Intel Core i3 CPU and/or GPU heats up just like any other regular laptops do.

Fortunately, after removing some of the graphics-related bloatware (not the Intel ones, but there are others you can remove without noticing any differences in the outcome), the system finally acted like what I anticipated. (the bottom side gets a little warmer than your hand. That's all. The upper portion, keyboard side, and the LCD doesn't heat up at all.)

Why can't PCs use Samsung-Exynos or Tegra-2 for their CPUs? Are they not compatible?

2. Small SSD. Yet, with 64GB, I was able to install MS Office 2007, MS SQL Server 2005, Autodesk 2011 (Student Ed.), Matlab 2007, Visual Studio 2008, and Adobe CS3 (Not all components though.) And I use my MicroSD card(16GB) as a hard-drive for all my projects and PDF journal papers files. It works great. (I use GalaxyTab 7.0 separately for all media files.)

[Now the Pros]

1. The battery charges up blazingly fast. ( about ONE HOUR for 20% --> 100%) It seems Samsung had a trade-off between [having longer battery life] vs. [charging up faster], when designing the battery for this laptop. I think they had decided to go for the latter. Still I get about 5~6 hours with regular MS Word, Excel, internet activities.

2. Love the matte LCD screen. I have solid black color as my desktop background. And it is the true black color. Felt like looking at the monolith in the movie "Space Oddysey 2001."

3. This laptop feels like "THIS IS THE WAY A LAPTOP WAS SUPPOSED TO BE."
Handy, stylish, portable, light, and productive. When compared side-by-side, my 2-years-old Dell Studio looked like "Apple II" of the laptop world.

4. Auto-Brightness: I damaged my eyes due to my old laptop LCD display; I can't look at LCD screens for more than 1~2 hours. But I feel comfortable looking at this laptop's LCD screen for hours, thanks to auto-brightness control.

All in all, I think this is a great next-gen PC laptop. Especially, if you are a researcher or a college student, I think it is worthwhile to get one of these.

[Updates as of 6/28/2011]

- The battery lasts more like 4~5 hours at best, instead 5~6 hours.

- The bottom side gets pretty hot if I use youtube alot. I slided in a thin book underbeath so there would be enough ventilation air for fan-cooling; before long, the temperature came down again to the "warm" level.

- If you want to create more SSD space, make sure you disable indexing all the files content from Administrative control. Otherwise, it will keep eating up extra spacse to store all the garbage indices that is not useful for anything.

- One person commented about the next Windows 8 coming on ARM architecture CPU. Thank you so much for that. Looking so forward to it. The Intel CPU and the GPU waste too much battery power in heat diffusion. I realized that these are the main culprits for wasting so much battery power.
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Abe Froman
1.0 out of 5 stars Too slow to use
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2013
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great exterior design, too bad it's hopelessly slow and thus not usable. Portability is only worthwhile if the computer can actually be useful.
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PG
2.0 out of 5 stars hardware is great, custom software is trash
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2011
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-- update 3/5/2012 --

I had this same error popping up on a new computer I purchased (dell xps 13 ultrabook), and it seemed strange that Windows 7 would not install. It turns out if you plug an external cd/dvd drive into a usb 3.0 port it wont work; this is because Windows 7 and older os's do not ship with a usb 3.0 driver. So while the drive does work it doesnt work sufficiently to install Windows. So while the error says it cant find the cd/dvd drive its more the problem that the usb port the drive is plugged into isnt fully supported with a driver. MS likely will fix this with Windows 8. The solution is to simply plug your cd/dvd drive into the other usb port which is a usb 2.0 port and it works fine! So apologies to samsung for the harsh criticism regarding the missing driver; however I still feel bloatware should not be included on these machines when you are paying that much upfront.

-- update 3/5/2012 --

I'm coming from a macbook air 11.6 model using Windows under bootcamp. This series 9 is a little thicker in the front than the macbook air, but the back portion of the laptops are the same size. The backlit keys and the feel of the keys on this machine are excellent! The core i3 is blazing fast and boots up instantly - under 7 seconds, whereas windows boots up in about 35 seconds on the macbook air (bootcamp) - attributed likely to poor drivers by apple. The screen quality is excellent, bright display and vivid colors. The touchpad is very responsive and is actually one of the best multitouch touchpads I've used on any Windows laptop - being able to support gestures perfectly that I havent found on other windows laptops. I found the slide out port panels to be very flimsy, in fact they somewhat stick sometimes and feel like they are about to break if you press on them too hard - this is poor design on samsungs part. Samsung should have just let the ports be visible instead of hide them behind poorly made door/panels that likely will break.

Now to the bad part - the custom drivers and software samsung includes on this laptop is horrendous. The first problem I encountered was the function keys to toggle wifi, sound, brightness did not work, sometimes they would work sometimes they didnt. The F1 toggle to open the samsung panel is very slow to load (5+ seconds to open), and the wifi toggle on/off when it does work crashes randomly. Then when you can adjust the brightness of the display it never keeps the settings saved, anytime you boot into the laptop (even when plugged in) it goes to the very lowest brightness possible. I tried changing the power profile and that did not change anything, once you reboot it goes back to the dimmest brightness. Top it off when I purchase a $1200 laptop why is samsung putting bloatware like norton, wildtangent and the bing bar on this laptop? samsung if you want to offer a premium product why do you think its okay to trash the laptop on the software side? Some companies simply dont understand all these extra programs are TRASH and should not be put on computers to make a extra few bucks and harm user experience! I've noticed this trend, alot of pc manufacturers will sell a high end product but try to make a few extra dollars bundling these crapware products - either sell something premium with no crapware or keep selling low priced garbage computers with as much crapware you want. You cant charge $1000+ for a laptop and have a crappy software experience. Now most of us who can reformat with a fresh stock copy of Windows this isnt an issue, but most people never do that and samsung shouldnt force crap on people who are paying premium prices. This goes onto my second problem with this laptop...

I figured no big deal - I'll just wipe the harddrive and use stock windows with a reformat. Tried that with a stock windows 7 disc - it wouldnt work (it works on every other computer I have and is a retail copy of Windows 7), also tried with the samsung restore disc; same problem. You get an error message at the beginning of install that says 'a required cd/dvd device driver is missing'. This likely is the driver for the ssd controller. I checked on both of the discs that samsung provides and there is no driver to be found at all, I checked each directory manually to try to locate the driver - nothing and Windows install will not continue until you supply the driver. Called samsung support and they had no resolution other than to ship them the laptop and get a replacement. The point was to get rid of samsungs crapware and poor drivers and use stock windows, not get a replacement laptop with the same problems and unable to use stock windows.

So while the hardware on this laptop is very good, the custom firmware samsung wrote is pathetic and makes this laptop a poor choice compared to the macbook air. I really wanted to get rid of the macbook air and move back to a pure windows computer that is properly optimzied for Windows; but samsung let me down. Samsung has issues with trying to write custom software on their mobile phones and it seems on their laptops - they simply do not know how to write software and should just leave the operating system alone!

With no way to fix all the problems and no way to reformat with a stock Windows install, I have returned this laptop as it is defective. Don't buy this laptop until Samsung can provide the proper drivers so you can install your own copy of Windows without all the bloatware and crappy drivers that samsung wrote.
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chicken reviewer
3.0 out of 5 stars great computer but only for the right user
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2011
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I returned this computer. It's really a slick piece of equipment, but the hard drive, after the installation of the operating system and other pre-loaded software, didn't appear to have a lot more than 1/2 of the 64 gig space available. While its a great piece of equipment for the right user, I wanted to have all my data available while traveling and this would not do it. I also found it did not have a built in microphone for Skype calls. A small thing admittedly but something that takes away from it being a total package.
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