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fordy on 26 February 2013
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PullusPardus said:
fordy said:
PullusPardus said:


Okay, so you say we should compare ultrabooks to tablets, then say we shouldn't compare them with tablets? 

make up your mind already. 

Series 9 doesn't even have that good of a CPU ,  my laptop which is from 2011 has a i7 2.20 > 3.30 GHz  , and its not even a high end PC, and it is 2k cheaper than the "Premium" Series 9 Samsung

It also supports full HD resolution which is by today should be a standard, while the series 9 sports a 1600 x 900 

I could go on and on , but in short, that laptop is overpriced, but Samsung knows whos buying and people who buy it are the Galaxy fans with no computer knowledge, they are acting like Apple.

You can compare them if you like, but you'll either have to discount the keyboard size for the Series 9 or add the keyboard size for the Tablet Z.

Series 9 Has a very decent CPU for its size. Of course it doesn't rival desktops and the like, that's just ridiculous, but compared to the ARM range, it's a completely different league altogether. By the way, my premium Series 9 costed $1300, so unless you got paid $700 for your computer upgrade, I'm not buying it.

The screen is really the only thing that can be criticised, and it was a matter of tossing up between the 1080 screen on the ASUS Zenbook, or the size/power factor of the Series 9.

Of course, this is an old ultrabook now, at least 6 months old, so there's probably even better around in the merket.

 

Me :  "  my laptop which is from 2011" 

You : " Of course, this is an old ultrabook now, at least 6 months old," 

You : "Series 9 Has a very decent CPU for its size" 

Me : "My laptop from 2011, and has a better CPU,  , the one on the S9 is very close to a smartphone one"
now I have no idea what you are getting at, at this point.
also , You bought yours for less than 1 K ? was it a discount? , because the ones that are less than 2k are not "Premium" models, and my phone has a better CPU than those crappy things.
by the way the Zenbook is a lot more powerful than the Series 9 , so i think you picked the wrong one for just a couple of milimeters thiner.

 

The series 9 has a Sandy brige which can burst to speeds of 3GHz when needed. Of course you should already know that GHz do not always measure performance. (After all, look at the Pentium 4s NetBurst technology, which was also around 3GHz). 

I made a mistake earlier. The Series 9 is based in the Ivy Bridge architecture, not the Sandy Bridge. A laptop from 2011 is based either on the Sandy Bridge architecture or earlier. Best case scenario, Ivy Bridge boasts 16%-20% increase in performance when compared to Sandy Bridge.

By the way, I wouldn't go comparing Core i7s with the ARM architecture found in phones or tablets. As I said earlier, there is a major difference in performance. 

The ASUS Zenbook used the same CPU (i7 @ 1.8GHz) as the Series 9 (i7 @ 1.9GHz), just a slight difference in clock speed. 

the model I'm referring to is the 900X4C, and read what I said again, because I didn't say anywhere that I paid <$1k for it.