I bought this as a travel notebook. I needed something light, inexpensive, longer battery life, and with some ports that I could use for different circumstances (HDMI, USB A, USB C, and an SD card slot). The SD card slot is a mini, I do with it was standard SD to work more easily with my camera memory card, but happy have it regardless. This size is perfect and I can slip it into my medium sized purse. Also handy, it's super light but made of metal, so it feels substantial and quality unlike a piece of cheap plastic that I get with some chrome books.
I had to do a lot of tweaking to get this notebook to behave well and get the advertised battery performance. I turned off all the track pad features because it was jumpy and unpredictable, often interfering with work and aggravating me. I don't use touch screen. I disabled or removed all most the applications that shipped with it. I changed all of the battery settings to the most conservative... this was necessary to get the long battery life that Samsung and other review sites claim. If I hadn't done this I was looking at a very hot laptop that lasted about 3-4 hours. With everything turned off and dialed in I can carry the laptop for days in suspended mode with nightly usage for about 30 - 120 minutes without a charge and it emits minimal heat and almost zero fan noise.
If you want to use Bitlocker, you'll need to an upgraded Windows version, not Home.
| Standing screen display size | 13.3 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 Pixels |
| Processor | 1.7 GHz apple_ci5 |
| RAM | 8 GB LPDDR5 |
| Hard Drive | 256 GB SSD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Intel UHD Graphics |
| Chipset Brand | Intel |
| Card Description | Integrated |
| Wireless Type | Bluetooth |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 30 minutes |
