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Samsung ATIV Book 9 (2014 Edition) review: This laptop sounds as gorgeous as it looks |
July 15, 2014
Based on the way most laptops sound, I’d venture a guess that audio is the last thing engineers think about when they design laptops. In fact, I’d go one step further to speculate that marketing efforts drive most laptop builders’ decisions to collaborate with audio companies. But I won’t lump Samsung’s 2014 ATIV Book 9 in that crowd, because it sounds absolutely divine—especially with headphones.
The Samsung ATIV Book 9 is a beautiful, elegantly thin laptop that will turn heads when you pull it out of your designer messenger bag. It’s the thinnest, sexiest notebook we’ve reviewed this year. But it’s much more pedestrian under the hood—with one exception. It’s equipped with a Wolfson WM5102 audio CODEC (encoder/decoder). If you’re an audio enthusiast, your ears just pricked up. Wolfson produces some of the world’s finest DACs (digital-to-analog converters).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2451531/samsung-ativ-book-9-2014-edition-review-this-laptop-sounds-as-gorgeous-as-it-looks.html#tk.rss_reviews
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