Things to consider before buying:
-Matte screen: personal preference, for some it is a plus because it doesn’t become a mirror during bright conditions. The terrible side is it’s not as bright as its glossy counterpart.
-Keyboard: chiclet type keys, again personal preference. I prefer the regular type of keyboard where here are no spaces in between but I can live with it. Also, it lacks a dedicated “Page Up/Page Down, Home, End” keys. They are gathering keys instead and also, the multi-finger-touch-pad and its smack features to some extent replaces these keys. I’m a keyboard type of guy though and it is annoying for me when I have to batter keyboard to touchpad constantly, more on this later…

Persons are sweet much the cons of this mainframe. Others may point out the tiny speakers but honestly, I’ve by no means heard of a sub 14″ mainframe yield excellent sound.. maybe loud and lots of treble but lacks the bass. This is super light, nearly 2+ lbs. and comes with lots of extras: hdmi, bt3.0, cat5, vga/sub, cam, mem card booklover, 3 usb. I reflect that in itself is incredible at this weight and price (well I got mine on sale during the Staples deal of 9).

Erect quality is excellent. Lots of plastic though but I estimate thats to cut the weight and keep the cost down.

Pet peeve: after doing a lot of web surfing and multitasking, aka typing and tender the cursor nearly and clicking here and here.. the touchpad glitch (keyboard to touchpad falter) gets in the way; google it for more info. Basically if you use the keyboard, the touchpad is unresponsive until a small quantity of time has passed (~2 seconds). The thought behind this is to preclude accidental touches on the pad (which I can assure does happen a lot on other laptops). But I reflect I’d rather live with accidental touches than the falter. A lot of people have the same issue so it’s not just me. The touchpad uses the Elan Tech software (as of 10/16/2011) here is no fix for it that I know. I downloaded the newest driver/software from Samsung support website and all it did was change the defaulting background of the touchpad sensitivity to have the least noticeable quantity of falter. While it reduced the falter, it is still here. I infer I’ll be using a mouse and disabling the touchpad to work nearly this issue or if Samsung or Elan Tech ever does an update.

The other business is the miniscule battery included. I wouldn’t mind the superfluous weight if it would give me 8 hours as different to 2-2.5 hours. Now I have to lug nearly the power adapter which is more weight. Nice thinking here, Samsung. Doubtless cost cutting factor though.

Back to the goodies. This mainframe is very quick as it comes with an Intel i3 (slow version) but its still multitudes nearer than akin Atom netbooks and a 4GB ram. I won’t be playing high end 3D games, I have a desktop for that, but you can watch HD movies and still do other things just fine.. Staples vendor says the MS Office was a trial version but they were incorrect, you are given a full version key (though it lacks Outlook Prompt and other stuff that is found on the Professional version of office). Comes with MS Office 2010 Home/Student journal(powerpoint, excel, word, onenote) and the only bloatware I had to remove was Norton and Wildtangent games. Rouse software comes with it too but I really am using it so for some it might be considered bloatware.. That’s about it so far, might come back later to do an update.

I’d say it’s a excellent mainframe for the student or the office worker.

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**Update: Dec 03, 2011**
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I still have the same feelings about the mainframe. I replaced the hard guide with a Samsung Solid State Guide [SSD] (this mainframe uses a thinner than normal; 7mm VS the normal 9mm). Using an SSD is doubtless the best upgrade you can do to ANY notebook because hard drives (non-SSD) is usually the slowest component. Now the mainframe is turbo-quick! One business I noticed though, because I had to re-bed in Windows 7, is that Samsung website does not have the hardware drivers/softwares for this mainframe develop. This develop is not even listed! I finished up downloading the Samsung series 9 software. The drivers were downloaded using Windows Update (surprisingly Windows found all the drivers through updates).

FYI on the battery: People have reported larger batteries on sale with this mainframe and they say they get 6+ hours out of them. I learned to live with the 2.5 hours though..

P.S. The lag between keyboard and touchpad seems to have disappeared. I’m not sure if maybe because I got used to it or because of the new SSD or because of the new windows re-bed in.

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I did not buy this from Amazon; I really bought this during the firestorm sale at Staples for 0 out the door, which is an awesome deal to me IMHO.

Pros:
- PRICE!!,
- small, portable & light, bluetooth,
- nice brush metal point,
- did not come with a TON of bloatware,
- excellent quality webcam, SD slot,
- HAS FULL Ticket Microsoft Student Office key. (that’s a 0 value in itself!),
- 4Gb memory,

Cons:
-Only real con I have is that the battery life doesn’t last so long, it is a 4000mAh battery (but that can be overcome.. have to buy a 7800mAh battery which extends from 3hrs of usage to about 5.5hrs Google for the battery).
-HD space could be larger and nearer but I don’t care since i’m using for web surfing only. I have a quad-core,8Gb PC to soubriquet larger tasks.
- only 1 slot for memory (which is fine standard 4gb installed)

I’m not going to play games on this mainframe so I do not care about Video bench marks or do photoshop, video editing.

I wouldn’t get it if it was 0, but it’s beyond doubt a steal for 0.

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The notebook has very excellent spec. Powerful enough as an even more portable mainframe.

The most awesome business is – it HAS FULL Ticket Microsoft Student Office key. (that’s a 0 value in itself!). So buying this for less than 0 bucks is a fantastic deal!

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