Samsung's gone and done it guys. It's made a perfectly wonderful laptop that retails for under a grand, is of exceptional quality, and is neither under-powered nor teeming with crappy finishes. This is the college-bound laptop everyone, including Apple, has failed to make for the last couple of years.

We've been busting Apple's balls a lot lately, and it definitely has everything to do with my four-year-old Macbook Pro being on its last legs and my refusal to spend $2500 on the paltry-ass upgrade that is the current Macbook Pro. While other laptop companies furiously pack whiz-bang features and new ideas into a slab of aluminum and plastic, Apple's been moseying along with a product so long in the tooth you might mistake it for an elderly relative who says inappropriate things at family gatherings.

Meanwhile, there is Samsung. Last year it had exactly one laptop in its line up. It was a great laptop, but it was hardly going to help the company take the computer business by storm. This year Samsung has been quietly rolling out a multitude of devices. It started with the brutally efficient Samsung 9 , and now it's back with the chunkier, and much more affordable, Samsung Notebook 7 Spin. The Notebook 7 Spin is the rare quality "do everything" laptop for under $1000.

Yeah it's bigger than the laptops we usually prefer here at Gizmodo-large enough that it feels clunky opening and closing and making use of the 360-degree hinge. And at 5 pounds for the 15-inch, it's heavy enough to be used in your daily workout routine. Yet it's also got a 1TB hard drive, space for a zippier M2 SATA drive, a 15.6 inch 1080p display, USB and USB-C ports, and the 15-inch even has an Nvidia Geforce 940 MX video card-in case you need to get in some clutch play of the games in Overwatch. More importantly, it's a lot more satisfying and easy to use that similarly priced laptops like the Dell Latitude 5000 series or HP Envy 15.

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