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As most any parent will surely agree, no two children are alike, not even within the same family. The Samsung ATIV Book 9 Lite looks a great deal like the premium Ultrabook Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus, our Editors' Choice for high-end ultrabooks. The much more affordable Book 9 Lite borrows several design elements from its more expensive sibling, with a similar slim silhouette and touch screen. But despite the elegant ultrabook stylings, the Book 9 Lite falls short in several key areas, with dawdling performance and lackluster battery life.
The Book 9 Lite is a curious case in that the processor manufacturer and model aren't clearly mentioned in Samsung's marketing materials, and there is no tell-tale sticker on the palmrest shouting out this commonly cited specification. Dig into the details of the laptop, however, and you'll eventually find that it's simply identified as the "X4 Quad Core," with a clock speed of 1.4GHz. The X4 with adapter like Samsung RV411 Ac Adapter , Samsung 300E Ac Adapter , Samsung RV420 Ac Adapter , Samsung Q460 Ac Adapter , Samsung RV520 Ac Adapter , Samsung N220 Ac Adapter , Samsung E251 Ac Adapter , Samsung NP-NB30 Ac Adapter , Samsung AD-9019 Ac Adapter , Samsung NP900X3A Ac Adapter , Samsung Q1 Ac Adapter , Samsung Q210 Ac Adapter is actually an AMD product, designed for Samsung. But while Samsung may have requested features and offered input in the creation of the chip, the nearly anonymous AMD X4 presents purchasers with many of the same compromises offered by other budget laptops leveraging AMD's less expensive hardware.
First and foremost, the processing and productive capability is well below that of Intel-equipped competitors. In Cinebench the Book 9 Lite scored 1.06 points, a dramatically lower score than the Editors' Choice Lenovo IdeaPad U430 Touch$699.00 at Lenovo (2.50 points) and even below the Core i3-equipped Dell Inspiron 14R-5437$649.99 at Dell (1.84 points). As a result of this underpowered processor, the Book 9 Lite also comes up short in productivity tests, scoring only 1,612 points in PCMark 7 and crawling through Handbrake in 3 minutes 9 seconds. By comparison, the Acer Aspire V7-582P-6673 scored 4,228 points in PCMark 7, and the Lenovo IdeaPad U430 Touch finished Handbrake in 1:25, less than half the time. The laptop was unable to run our Photoshop tests for further comparison, but even during relatively undemanding tasks, such as browsing the web in two windows, the Book 9 Lite was noticeably slow.
And even in graphics testing, where AMD usually shines, the Book 9 Lite came up short, putting up single digit scores in gaming tests—seven frames per second in Heaven and 8 fps in Alien Vs. Predator, both at standard resolution and low detail settings—and scoring only 758 points in 3DMark 11 at Entry settings. By comparison, the closest competing score was the Asus VivoBook V500CA-DB71T with 1,268 points.
Last, but not least, the Book 9 Lite lasted 5 hours 23 minutes in our battery rundown test. Though not the lowest score of the bunch—the Asus VivoBook V500CA-DB71T was an hour shorter at 4:23—but it fell well behind most. For example, the Lenovo IdeaPad U430 Touch lasted 7:42, while the Dell Inspiron 14R-5437 stretched far longer at 9:46.
All told, the Samsung ATIV Book 9 Lite may have a passing resemblance to the highly rated Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus, but it's only skin deep. Even among other entry-level ultrabooks and desktop replacements, the Book 9 Lite has frustratingly slow performance and only middling battery life. For a better touch-screen laptop at a similar price, the Editors' Choice Lenovo IdeaPad U430 Touch is still the better option.