Samsung Ativ Book 9 Akku

Laptop Mag Verdict

Samsung'due south xv-inch ATIV Volume ix Pro features an attractive aluminum body and a bright UHD screen, but weak battery life and underpowered graphics prevent information technology from existence a top selection.

Pros

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Bright and colorful UHD screen
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Attractive aluminum blueprint
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Lots of ports
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Solid speakers
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Good overall functioning

Cons

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Short battery life
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Older, slower discrete graphics
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No configuration options

A xv-inch laptop designed for power users, Samsung'south premium ATIV Book ix Pro ($one,600) packs some noteworthy features, including Nvidia 950M discrete graphics, a 3840 x 2160 UHD touch screen and a tiptop-notch pattern. Inside, the system is powered by a speedy Intel Core i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. But in an increasingly competitive market place, the ATIV Book 9 Pro doesn't quite do plenty to go along upwards with the 15-inch MacBook Pro and Dell XPS 15.

Blueprint

Bated from a few polished metal accents on the sides, lid and elsewhere, the laptop'due south pure blackness chassis looks quite stealthy. The body is constructed out of aluminum and is thin enough to requite the system a pretty sleek contour. However, the matte end picks up fingerprints and smudges too easily.

The ATIV Book 9 Pro measures 14.72 x 9.83 x 0.7 inches and weighs 4.45 pounds, which makes it slightly larger than both the 2015 MacBook Pro (14.thirteen ten ix.73 10 0.71 inches and iv.49 pounds) and the XPS fifteen (14.06 x 9.27 x 0.66 and 4.four pounds),although there's but a tenth of a pound difference in heft.

Keyboard and Touchpad

Even though primal travel on the ATIV Book 9 Pro's keyboard was but 1.07mm (1.five to ane.6mm is more standard), in my experience typing felt swift and accurate. The keys' threescore-gram actuation weight helps forbid the keyboard from feeling too dead or lifeless, and the sturdy deck has very piddling flex.

The 4.ii x 3-inch touchpad features a ton of space to move effectually, and I similar the sparse strip of polished metal around its edge, which adds some subtle flair to an otherwise understated design. The touchpad'south surface is brushed metal that feels even smoother than the finish on the balance of the system, and with its quick and responsive movements to both clicks and gestures, the touchpad is a pleasance to utilize.

Display

The 15.6-inch, 3840 10 2160 UHD touch on screen on the ATIV Book nine Pro is a joy to look at, simply like other systems that characteristic an extra broad color range, certain hues are somewhat exaggerated. In the ATIV Volume'due south example, its display features a subtle dark-green tint that fabricated the paint on Tom Hiddleston'due south face in the trailer for Loftier Rise wait more like Tiffany blueish than the chalky sky blue I saw on other displays. That said, with an abundance of pixels to work with, the ATIV Volume ix Pro'due south pictures and videos looked sharp and featured good black levels also.

According to our colorimeter, the ATIV Book 9 Pro's screen tin reproduce 129 per centum of the sRGB spectrum, which is much wider than the 86 of the MacBook Pro and the 107 percent of the Satellite Radius P55. Even so, the 1 panel that topped the Samsung's color range was the UHD version of the XPS 15, which featured a super-vibrant color range of 191 per centum.

The ane surface area where the ATIV Volume 9 Pro stumbled was in color accuracy, as it recorded a Delta-E rating of ix.5 (closer to zero is better). That's worse than about of the other panels in this grade, including the XPS fifteen (0.7), the MacBook Pro (2.1) and the Satellite Radius P55 (1.i).

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With a brightness of 405 nits, the ATIV Volume 9 Pro outshines its 15-inch competitors. Dell'southward XPS 15 comes the closest at 382 nits, but that'due south with a 1920 ten 1080 anti-glare screen. On an XPS 15 with a 15.6-inch UHD display, the screen measured only 282 nits. The 2015 MacBook Pro measured 303 nits, and the Toshiba Radius P55 was fifty-fifty dimmer at 260 nits.

Sound

For your sound enjoyment, the Book nine Pro features quad 4-watt speakers positioned in pairs on either side of the system. The ATIV Book'south volume was above average, and easily filled our 15 x 15-foot lab with music, although its slightly airy soundstage took away from the well-baked handclaps and percussion in Kygo's "Stay." Strong highs and skillful treble performance helps embrace that up, and I liked the manner the ATIV recreated Maty Noyes' fragile vocals.

Heat

The aluminum chassis on the ATIV Book nine Pro distributes heat well, and on our heat exam (15 minutes of streaming HD video), the hottest spot on the system (the bottom vent) measured just ninety degrees Fahrenheit. The infinite betwixt the G and H keys was slightly cooler at 88 degrees, while the touchpad was only a touch higher than room temperature at 77 degrees.

Ports and Webcam

The ATIV Book 9 Pro comes with a good for you amount of ports, including iv USB connections (three Type-A and one Type-C), HDMI, a combo headphone/mic jack, and an SD card reader.

The 720p webcam above the brandish captured photos with decent item, but often struggled to recreate colors accurately.

When I took a selfie in our well-lit office, a moving-picture show from the ATIV Volume turned part of a wall from white to calorie-free blue, and added a little too much red to the skin tones on my confront.

Performance

Featuring an Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU, 8GB of RAM, Nvidia 950M graphics and a 256GB SSD, the Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus provides plenty of operation for productivity, graphics work or heavy multitasking, just not plenty oomph for high-end games. This meant I had no problem powering an extra 1920 x 1080 display while streaming multiple full HD videos on YouTube and 10 Chrome tabs open in the groundwork.

On Geekbench three, which measures overall arrangement functioning, Samsung's ATIV Book 9 Pro scored 12,344. That's quite a bit higher than the viii,936 mainstream laptop average, but falls slightly brusque of the XPS fifteen's score of 13,502 (Intel Cadre i7-6700HW, 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD) and the 2015 MacBook Pro'due south fourteen,423 (Intel Core i7-4870HQ, 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD). Toshiba'southward Satellite Radius P55, however, scored much lower at merely vi,053 (Intel Core i7-5500U, 12GB of RAM and 512GB SSD).

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When we ran our spreadsheet macro examination, which uses OpenOffice to match 20,000 names and addresses, the ATIV Book 9 Pro finished in three minutes and 36 seconds. Dell'south XPS 15, which features the same CPU, besides finished in 3:36, while the 2015 MacBook Pro (Intel Core i7-4870HQ) and the Toshiba Radius P55 (Intel Core i7-5500U) were farther behind at 4:xiv and iv:35, respectively.

When we duplicated four.97GB worth of mixed media files, the ATIV Book ix Pro's 256GB posted a transfer rate of 133.9 MBps. Unfortunately, that's slower than competing SSD-equipped machines, including the 2015 MacBook Pro (636 MBps), the Dell XPS fifteen (254 MBps) and the Toshiba Satellite Radius P55 (212 MBps).

Graphics

Don't expect much graphics prowess from this Samsung. On 3DMark's Fire Strike graphics examination, the ATIV Book 9 Pro and its Nvidia 950M GPU scored 3,236. Dell'due south XPS 15 (three,949) posted a score near 25 percent higher, due to its newer Nvidia 960M GPU.

Those results carried over to gaming, where the ATIV Book nine Pro reached only 16.2 frames per second in Rainbow half dozen Siege at 1920 x 1080 and low settings, while the XPS 15 posted a significantly better 76 fps at the same settings.

Bombardment Life

The ATIV Book 9 Pro can't keep up with its closest competitors when information technology comes to endurance. The notebook lasted 5 hours and 31 minutes on Laptop Mag'south Battery test, which involves continuous surfing over Wi-Fi at 100 nits of effulgence. Dell's UHD XPS fifteen lasted an hour longer at six:36, and Apple'south 2015 MacBook Pro was even more impressive with a battery life of 9:08. The Samsung also trailed the 15-inch laptop average (5:l).

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Software and Warranty

The ATIV Book 9 Pro comes with Windows ten and Samsung'southward suite of PC apps and utilities. If yous already own a Samsung phone, you'll desire to check out the SideSync app that allows you to connect your phone to the PC (via USB or wirelessly), transfer files by simply dragging and dropping, and even add a movie-in-picture view of your phone'south screen to the ATIV Book's display.

Unfortunately, there'south a piddling bloatware, including Candy Beat out and a link to Adobe Photoshop Express, but nothing too intrusive or annoying.

Samsung backs the ATIV Book 9 Pro with a one-year warranty on parts and labor.

Lesser Line

In the end, The ATIV Book 9 Pro highlights what Samsung often does well on its laptops: combine a sleek, seductive aluminum design with a vivid colorful impact screen. At $1,600, the ATIV Book too compares favorably with the Dell XPS 15'south $i,800 price when equipped with detached graphics and a UHD touch screen. Withal, you tin pick upwards the XPS 15 for $1,000 if you're willing to forego a 4K display and detached graphics. The Volume 9 Pro also makes the $1,999 starting price of the 2015 MacBook Pro (with no GPU) wait downright exorbitant

Unfortunately, the Nvidia 950M GPU in the ATIV Book 9 Pro pales in comparison to the 960M in the XPS 15 which helps justify the Dell'due south college toll. Samsung also doesn't offer any other configurations, so what you see hither is what you get. Merely the biggest problem is the ATIV Book's subpar v.five hours of battery life, which makes picking up the system and walking out the door a less attractive proposition. The ATIV Volume nine Pro is a sweet-looking system with a bright, rich display, but the MacBook Pro and XPS 15 both offering improve operation, lower starting prices and longer endurance.

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Samsung ATIV Book 9 Pro Specs

Bluetooth	Bluetooth 4.1
Brand	Samsung
CPU	2.vi-GHz Intel Core i7 6700HQ CPU
Company Website	world wide web.samsung.com
Display Size	xv.half dozen
Graphics Menu	Nvidia GTX 950M
Hard Bulldoze Size	256GB SSD
Hard Drive Speed	n/a
Difficult Bulldoze Blazon	SSD
Native Resolution	3840 10 2160
Operating System	Windows 10
Ports (excluding USB)	USB-C, HDMI, Headphone/Mic, SD card slot, USB 3.0
RAM	8GB
Size	14.72 x nine.83 x 0.seventy
Touchpad Size	iv.2 10 3-inches
USB Ports	4
Video Retention	2GB
Warranty/Back up	ane yr standard parts and labor
Weight	4.45 pounds
Wi-Fi	802.11ac
Wi-Fi Model	2x2 NFA324A