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hi everyone and welcome to another review by Jim's review room I know it's been forever since I did a review but had a change in jobs and you know some personal things happen in my personal life here but in the end some tough times but it is for the better though so let's get started here today we'll be looking at the samsung series 5 13.3 Ultrabook model np5 3-0 u3c that's a long title and we'll look into the ultrabooks construction style specifications and features and lastly my pros and cons and its performance and usage so let's get started here I purchased this ultra book from Amazon for $749 On January 1st 2013 this unit comes with the third generation 1.7 gigahertz I 5 processor 4 gigs of ram and 500 gigabytes of the standard platter harddrive now it comes with a 24 gigabyte flash memory hard drive separate from the main 500 gig hard drive which is just reserved for the operating system just a speed up system booting the exterior is gray but Samsung calls it light Titan construction looks like brushed aluminum but in reality it's a plastic body more information will be in the description below but I'll just go over the basics for now so this particular model comes with a built in webcam intel HD graphics 4000 built-in wireless and internet and networking Windows 7 home premium and the unit itself weighs in at about three point four pounds the exterior features include one super speed USB 3.0 inputs and your standard two USB 2.0 inputs full size HDMI connections microphone headphone inputs and a four in one SD card reader on the side well I'll start with the pros this computer for the price is a hybrid or it is a cross between a real ultrabook and a traditional laptop now it does have a very decent slim profile coming in at a little over a half an inch thick as you can see the side angles it looks really slim this laptop is on point for travelers and those on the go when I shop for other laptops in this category and price range such as the acer timeline series and some of the ThinkPad lenovo show most of the laptops came in a little bit heavier just by several ounces and actually a slightly taller as well or thicker and this has to be one of the sleek is looking hybrid ultrabooks I can find at the time the third-generation i5 although at 1.7 gigahertz is to me pretty much fast for average or daily news emails webpages office productivity applications etc four gigs of ram was just barely enough boot up from the samsung built-in flash hard drive was also fast enough but to be honest with you after I installed my own Samsung SSD in there this thing is now a beast you can definitely tell the hard job is bottlenecking the performance altogether it's definitely nice to have a full HDMI cable connection so you can connect it to a TV or monitor on the fly internet connection is pretty fast the screen itself is bright enough of course don't expect a Retina display but as you can see in the video the video quality from the recording device is not up to par but again it's your standard screen or monitor that you can see now as I've said before this is what I personally call a hybrid and you can tell samsung head to cut some corners just to keep the price down a quote unquote real ultrabook in my opinion comes with a SSD hard drive standard better life is a little bit better than this laptop here this one does come with a massive 500 gig platter hard drive and as I mentioned though does severely bottleneck the performance on this machine the processor is great but again you really don't realize how great it is until you actually install the SSD just to remove that bottleneck altogether there's also one more slot to expand the ramp up to eight gigabytes which I have done in this video the laptop now just screams and the upgrades did cost me an Edition $134 and I did install it myself but yet again it's cheaper than going all out with an ultrabook in just in my opinion a MacBook Air if you ever own one or held one at the match store actually has an aluminium body and when holding it it feels sleek in the you'll sell machine this plastic body and the Samsung although not detrimental but because of his slimness and when opening a laptop it feels a little finicky in my opinion as in feeling a bit of flex in the body itself the better life is not up to par in my opinion for being a hybrid considering this is the third generation i5 and considering that I have installed the SSD these two items would reduce or lessen the power consumption the battery under normal use of office productivity and average website usage leaving away from my desk and coming back from time to time gave me about four and a half hours to five hours of usage at one full charge I was honestly hoping to achieve at least 6 hours with the upgrades and now to me this really huge flaw in my opinion again is whenever I type I rest my palms on the laptop and it also bumps the finger pad the trackpad and move the cursor while typing hugely annoying and happens surprisingly frequent attempting to read just my palms left me awkwardly uncomfortable so again just a huge flaw unfortunately overall at this standard laptop with a really nice looking body you honestly get what you pay for due to its construction in the components such as that platter hard drive and a 4 gigs of RAM however you would only benefit and I can say somewhat beats a real ultrabook that will be well over $1000 if only you upgrade the items that I did again the hard drive in the RAM if you can do the upgrades yourself and get over the plastic construction this laptop is great for your basic news and demanding office productivity requirements so to conclude this for the price it is very fitting in its category with the upgrades it's definitely worth it if you are only in the market looking for a slim laptop or something close enough to an authentic ultra book as long as you can get over the palm touching the finger pad or trackpad and the battery life this laptop might be worth it for you so I hope you enjoyed this review of the samsung series 5 ultra book as it's an unbiased review and just my personal opinions on the product and personal usage if you have not please take your time to like and subscribe this video and for future alerts to new products this is Jimmy with James reviewer take care of you