![]() Suffice it to say that the Notebook 9 Pro's big screen makes it perfect for watching movies while traveling, and the audio quality is very good.īoth the Note9 and Notebook 9 Pro come with a removable stylus, which at first created some flashbacks to 1996, but which I have found to be extraordinarily useful. But the Notebook 9 Pro's instant conversion to a tablet has also paid dividends when I'm stuck on an airplane and there simply isn't enough room to use it in laptop mode, which is common in these days where legroom has been reduced from 44 inches to something that feels like two, and seat pitch has been changed to that which would be in violation of the Geneva Convention. The latter is particularly useful for business users, as the Notebook 9 Pro's 15 inch screen creates a large writing area for note taking, which is particularly useful to me when I'm in court and having to write down a judge's rapid-firing of case deadlines. The Note9 could in fact be viewed as a smallish tablet with a phone added, while the screen on the Notebook 9 Pro swings around so that it can used in tablet mode. I've inadvertently dropped both a couple of times, and they were not worse for the wear, although I've protected the Note9 with a clear plastic case which adds little to the size but which I've found in the past protects cellphones from corner dings.īoth 9s can be used as tablets. There simply are no rattles or loose parts to be found. Again, that the problems of Google and Microsoft respectively, and not Samsung's fault.īoth the Note9 and the Notebook 9 Pro are aesthetic in appearance and extremely well manufactured. But there are power programs that one can load onto Windows, such as full office and Adobe programs just to mention a few, that will not be anything like the same on Android. Android offers a robust marketplace of useful apps that cover the waterfront, including Microsoft Office products, while the Windows store even after all these years still offers only a relative handful useful apps such that just visiting the Windows store is a depressing experience. ![]() The differences in the operating systems, which is not Samsung's fault, define the differences between the two products. ![]() Although their operating systems are still different, the Note9 uses Android while the Notebook 9 Pro uses Windows, these two Samsung products operate quite similarly, allowing users to jump from one to the other with little practical change. The Note9 works like a tablet sans keyboard the Notebook 9 Pro works like an oversized tablet with a keyboard sans the limitations of tablets. Samsung has now fully changed that paradigm. This state of affairs persisted for a couple of decades, until Apple finally started to change the paradigm (the term the Silicon Valleyers would use) with the introduction of the iPad which combined the functionality of cellphones and laptops. Still, the two had utterly nothing in common except that they could both access the internet. The phones made calls of widely-varying voice quality and nothing else, while laptops were largely restricted to word processing during the 45 minutes or so before their battery conked out - I remember all too well the days of carrying around multiple laptop batteries in my briefcase just to get a couple of hours of work in.Įventually, cellular phones began to access the internet and provide additional functionality, while laptops slimmed down, beefed up their CPUs, and obtained battery life that made them marginally useful. For a power user like me who has one or the other in his hand something like twelve hours each working day, which seems to be every day, that is not just a small life's pleasure.įrom the early days of cellular phones, the first versions of which looked like a cheat knockoff of a Marine walkie-talkie that should normally be restricted to calling in air strikes, they had almost nothing in common with laptops, that latter which were then so big and heavy that one feared that at any second they would drop through the Earth's crust and damage the core. ![]() Having bought and used these two products, they are in my opinion about as close to perfect in their own genres as one can find under existing technologies, and more importantly they work well together. I say that because it is not due to any bias when I say that Samsung is totally killing it with two of their most recent products, being their oversized cellphone, the Galaxy Note9, and their premier laptop, the Notebook 9 Pro. ![]()
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