Gadgetory

here's some advice if you're thinking of getting into the laptop business take at least one product in your lineup and call it the pro model Apple's Gotham MacBook Pro and Hector's the iPad pro Microsoft has the surface pro and Samsung has a higher-end version of its excellent notebook 9 series called the notebook 9 pro what makes it a pro well it's got a dark slate light color which makes it seem more serious and professional but more importantly it includes extras like a stylus and a graphics card that other midsize laptops blackness the stylus has great implementation mostly because it slots right into the body of the laptop pull it out and it launches a little pop-up window for pinout this is the same passive stylus found in other Samsung devices like phones and tablets it's not as advanced as the Apple pencil or Microsoft pen but for note-taking and sketching I liked it and you never have to worry about whether it's charged up or has batteries of course using a stylus on a laptop screen is a bit hit or miss so I'm pleased that this has a full 360 degree hinge folding back into a tablet shape the basic AMD graphics aren't gonna make this a gaming machine but it can be useful for artists and photographers and video editors and it doesn't seem to add a lot to the very reasonable overall price my two biggest complaints the speakers fired downward causing the audio to get kind of lost and the power button is on the side which means you guessed it whenever I try to flip it in tablet mode I'd accidentally hit the power button and put the whole system to sleep