Samsung’s 11.6” 9 Series Takes on the Macbook Air

Samsung has been nipping at the heels of Apple lately, first with a new lineup of Galaxy Tab’s, and now with an official competitor to the Macbook air. The new Samsung 9 Series not only matches Apple on form factor, but manages to pack in a more modern Core i3 380UM processor, while still matching them with 2GB of ram and a 64GB SSD.
9 Series

Other features of note include a backlit keyboard, 3 USB ports, and a Gigabit Ethernet port. At 2.31 pounds and up to 7 hours of battery life, it’s certainly worth looking at if you’re on the market for a new netbook without the sacrifices. It comes in at a slightly higher price than Apple’s flagship ultra-portable, but is fairly reasonable when you consider that it has a more powerful CPU, ohh and it runs Windows!
With Intel integrated 3000 IGP graphics we doubt you’ll be playing Crysis 2 on it, but you should be able to crush spreadsheet like its nobodies business.