Samsung smart pc 700t đánh giá năm 2024

I really want to love my tablet, but numerous issues are making me regret giving up my laptop, or not getting Surface instead.

1. The keyboard will stop working multiple times in a single session (Edit: 2 times by the end of this review), requiring the tablet to be reseated, or completely restarted. It seems to have TWO different issues that both cause this. One is hardware related: if you tilt the tablet, or even merely shift the unit across a desk, it will sometimes stop responding to the keyboard/touchpad until it is reseated. (However, the battery continues to charge the entire time, so only SOME of the contacts are "loose"? The tablet is completely secure in the dock and has zero wiggle though... hmmm.)

Other times, the keyboard and touchpad will stop and resume responding, in a pulsing rhythm (2 seconds on, 3 seconds off, repeat). It is not severe lag. Characters typed during the "off" period are lost, not delayed. (The UI will respond perfectly to the onscreen keyboard during this time, further verification that it is not lag.) It will make the disconnect and reconnect sound over and over during this time, without being touched, forever, until the computer is restarted. (I've had to disable the sound effect because it happens regularly.) Because this can be resolved without reseating the tablet in the keyboard latch, it must be driver/Windows related. (I've had this unit since the week of release, and none of the patches have fixed this issue. I am current on all updates.)

2. An ethernet port was advertised, but is nowhere on the tablet or keyboard. This unit is WIFI only, which is no go at some hotels, and some airports offer ethernet that you're not able to use. My new router requires an ethernet connection for initial configuration, so I'd have been stuck if this were my only computer.

3. WiFi drops maybe once a day, while all other PCs and phones remain connected. This occurs at several distances from the router, but also with different routers, and with different ISPs. The Repair Wizard resolves it 80% of the time, the rest are cured by a tablet restart. Finishing a Netflix episode causes this often as well.

4. No Redbox, DVDs, or Blu-Rays for this tablet. There's no disc drive. Over time, you may miss having this option.

Also, many Windows 8 UI bugs abound, some unique to this tablet, others not.

5. Sometimes every single text field will trigger the onscreen keyboard to appear, even with the keyboard dock connected, obscuring half your screen. Alternatively, and frustratingly, sometimes in tablet mode, none of text fields will trigger the onscreen keyboard, so you have to switch to desktop mode just to have access to the keyboard toggle.

6. Pinch to zoom only works on some webpages, only in the bundled IE browser, and even then it is inconsistent. While reading an article or Craigslist posting, I might be able to zoom. If I return to the same page, sometimes it won't zoom, and has to be reloaded/refreshed before it'll work.

7. Some UI elements cannot be zoomed or clicked on-screen, particularly near screen edges. The pen often allows me to proceed, but sometimes you're stuck fetching the keyboard just to use the touchpad.

8. Some webpage UI elements/browsers/applications will interpret the touchscreen calibration differently, so you will always "miss" and click something else. It takes trial and error to figure out which direction you have to offset all your clicks (sometimes by a large margin).

9. Some webpages will NOT render correctly on this tablet, so you cannot see the bottom of a page or article. Because this is touch-based, sometimes the scroll bar is missing (while present on another computer!), and dragging on the page background (or using hardware/onscreen arrow keys) will not work. Sometimes I have to rotate the tablet to portrait mode to see those few extra inches at the bottom that I can't scroll to.

I chose this tablet over Surface because of the speakers, stashable pen, and keyboard/screen tilt. I would trade now in a heartbeat. But more tellingly, I would trade back to a modern Windows 7 laptop over either. The tablet only mode frequently leaves me stuck or doing lengthy work-arounds.

Until the next Windows Service Pack (or possibly further), I feel like I have downgraded by switching away from a 5 year old Windows 7 laptop.

Carrying around the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T with me is easy and very portable. Here you can see the ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T next to my Galaxy Note II which gives you an idea how slim the ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T is with the keyboard dock. Having the processing power of an i5 Core in such a small package has been great! The ability to just carry the tablet without the keyboard dock is another advantage just pop the tablet from the keyboard dock and you can be on your way.

As I have mentioned, I can quickly undock the tablet and go into the conference room where our meetings are held and connect it to our 32-inch monitor to do any presentations, mark up any building plans, mark up PDF documents and use PowerPoint with the ability to take digital notes as well. Using OneNote with the ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T is great! When using the stylus and OneNote to jot down your thoughts, the inking works so smooth with no lag or any waiting for the inking to catch up. Quick tip, when you are in a hurry and want to jot down a quick note, just press the button on the stylus and hold it while taping the screen twice. This will launch the S-Note to write down a quick note, and then you can save it in S-Memo for editing later. This is a very nice application for note taking.

One thing I do find is, when the ATIV Smart PC Pro is docked in the keyboard, I would have liked the ability to have the screen tilt just a tad more, for those times you need to adjust for better angle viewing.

At home or on the go I use CyberLink PowerDirector 11 for editing my videos. Like I have mentioned before the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T is able to handle all my video editing without any problems. I am able to render a 800MB video in about 3 to 4 minutes and saving it as H.264 video without any compromise at all. You can find a higher spec machine to edit videos much faster but you will not have some of the advantages by having the option to use your laptop as a tablet as needed.

When you create videos the ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T gets warm to a touch at the top where the vent is for the fan. Also the fan is very quiet and if you are in an office or at home with normal noise, you wouldn’t even know that the fan is on. There is a setting that actually keeps the fan very low that even at that point you can’t hear it is on. This setting is great when you plan to use it as a tablet, keeping it cool and giving you better battery life as well. This also keeps your speed to a maximum of 1.2GHz, so you only want to switch this on when you plan to surf, write documents or anything that won’t require a lot processing power. I accidentally had this on once and tried to finish a video that took almost 18 minutes vs 9 minutes once I put the setting back to normal.

Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro Design and Connectivity

The tablet overall quality build is very good in my opinion. The entire back is made of plastic; I can see why Samsung did this in order to help keep the weight down. It does flex in the center of the tablet if you press down hard, but I don’t usually hold it from the center. The plastic material that the back is made of is very sturdy throughout and feels very solid and no squeaking.

The curve around the tablet makes it holding it very comfortable in your hand. You won’t find any sharp edges around the sides. Even though you are using an 11.6-inch display it makes a great tablet around the office or home. On the back of the ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T it has four vents that help keep the tablet very cool. Even when I have been using it for heavy video editing, it gets warm to hot but never has it gotten so hot that it would bother me to hold the tablet.

The rear camera is a 5.0 MP HD. Don’t expect too much from this camera. In low light you won’t be capturing any award winning photos. Outdoors or with plenty of light it does a decent job. So far using the rear camera has been average in my use. The detail that I need to capture especially when trying to capture building plans don’t always show the small detail. What I have been doing is taking a closer shot of the area that I need, but times I need an overview of the building plans which then I am out of luck.

We need to see better cameras on tablets just like we see on mobile phones these days. Why? As more users use the tablets for work, you need a better camera to use at meetings to quickly scan documents, take quick shots of building plans and when going over certain job sites that require special parts that are quickly uploaded to Dropbox accounts and emailed back to the office or to order parts on the go. What I have noticed is that I get great WiFi performance with the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro. This is a big plus as I have run into other devices having very bad WiFi signal. The GPS (GNSS) does come in handy as you can use it to find locations much faster, especially when out traveling. With Bluetooth 4.0 you quickly connect to Bluetooth keyboards and BT Mouses. The ATIV Smart PC Pro does support WiDi. This makes connecting to a compatible WiDi monitor easy and gets rid of cables. I did purchase Netgear Push2TV which didn’t work on the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro because of the video driver. It required a newer video driver that I installed but it disabled the brightness settings. I reinstalled the original Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro video driver and everything went back to normal. I will have to follow and see if Netgear has updated any drivers for the Push2TV that will work with the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro.

I don’t use the stylus that is docked in the tablet; I use the S Pen Holder Kit that I had used on my previous Galaxy Note. The same S Pen works on my current Galaxy Note II and the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T with the Wacom digitizer. I do recommend that if you plan to use a tablet for marking up documents, taking notes, drawing on photos, etc… Get a tablet with a Wacom digitizer. You will pay a premium for this but will be worth the price. I have tested both Wacom digitizer tablets and capacitive type tablets and even though you can use special stylus to use on capacitive tablets, it is not the same especially if you plan to use your tablet for digital notes.

Using the stylus on the tablet whether using the stylus that comes with the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T or the S Pen Holder Kit stylus that I use, it feels very smooth when the tip contacts the glass on the ATIV Smart PC Pro. This makes note taking or any other use very easy and comfortable.

Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro as a Chromebook

There is days when I just need to use basic applications, I haven’t picked up a Chromebook just yet. Well, I have loaded the Chrome Browser on the ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T and sort of use it as my Chromebook when the need persist even though it is really not a true Chromebook, but I have loaded and set it up as one.

On the plus side is, the performance is much better than if I would have picked up a Chromebook, and have a full Windows 8 PC to run most any application that I would normally on a desktop computer.

I also decided to write this quick overview of the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T using Google Docs in Chrome browser. So far it is working great! Fast to open any app I have installed from the Chrome Web Store! On the negative side is, the Chrome browser is not optimized for touch screen. It works, but you will find times that you can’t really interact as well as if you had a mouse. You will find some small icons or boxes that make it very hard to use as touch screen.

Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro Battery and Performance

I know many of you have wanted to know how is the battery life on the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T. Well at first like any other battery it needs to run a few charges.

Samsung has a battery setting called “Samsung Optimized” which is what you want to use. This actually gives you the best battery life by adjusting to what you are running. I tried the “High Performance” setting when I was doing some picture editing and compared to the “Samsung Optimized” setting and I didn’t notice any difference in speed performance. By leaving it on “Samsung Optimized” I have been able to get 5.5 hours running IE10, Chrome browser, a couple Word documents, email, Metro apps for news, checking tweets and setting the brightness at around half. If I use the Metro IE browser and stay using the Metro apps and maybe jump into the desktop mode on and off, I have been able to stretch up to 6.5 – 7 hours of battery life. Sure this might not be what most of the Atom Clover Trail tablets are seeing, but this is more than what I expected from an i5 Core processor. Samsung has done a good job.

My usage at work during meetings and when out of office use, I can safely say that I don’t worry to bring along the power adapter. Since I do tend to work more in desktop mode for office work, using Office 2010, haven’t installed Office 2013 yet but will soon. I can go easy 5.5+ hours and most of the times an easy 6 hours. This translates into a full day of computing because I don’t use the ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T the straight 6 hours. You have down time in between that you’re not using the computer.

Samsung is using a LITEONIT LMT-128M3M [Hard drive] (128.04 GB) in the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro. I do plan to upgrade the mSATA SSD drive to at least a 256GB at a later time.

Summary

The Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro is a great Hybrid tablet / laptop. You will be able to use it as a desktop replacement for work and home use. I am enjoying the ability to have the 11.6-inch display with 1980×1080 resolution. Text is very clear on the display. Using the split screen while you work on a Word document or browse the web is another plus with 11.6-inch screen. Performance is great with 4GB RAM and haven’t noticed any slowdowns. The Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T sells for $1,199. Price will vary.

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How much does the Samsung Ativ Smart PC Pro 700T cost?

At this time, Samsung is only offering one configuration of the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T. The $1,199 unit has a 1.7-GHz Intel Core i5-3317U CPU, 4GB of storage, a 128GB SSD and an Intel HD 4000 Graphics chip. The Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T comes with 1 year standard parts and labor.

Does the smart pro PC 700T have an SD card slot?

This tablet/laptop still lacks dedicated Ethernet or an SD card slot, even though there was clearly room for both in the keyboard base. The internal specs of the Smart Pro PC 700T I reviewed are exactly the same as the Surface Pro: a 1.7 GHz Core i5-3317U, 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD.

What is the Iconia W700 vs Samsung Ativ Smart PC Pro 700T?

The Iconia W700 was the last tablet standing at 6:48, but only by 10 minutes over the Samsung. At this time, Samsung is only offering one configuration of the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T. The $1,199 unit has a 1.7-GHz Intel Core i5-3317U CPU, 4GB of storage, a 128GB SSD and an Intel HD 4000 Graphics chip.

How much does a Samsung Smart PC cost?

The Samsung Ativ Smart PC is priced at £699/US$749.99/AU$999, which includes the clamshell and S-Pen. It also has a big brother available, the Ativ Smart PC Pro, which includes an Intel Core i5 processor instead of the Atom, and is generally higher-specced across the board, much like the Surface Pro. That one goes for £999/US$1,199.99/AU$1,399.