Great machine, but it took my IT department a lot of trial and error to get the wifi working. The key was when they noticed that the wifi works very well when the machine is plugged into a power source. It works sporadically (sometimes horribly) when unplugged. Chasing this down, it turned out that one of the power save default settings dramatically reduces and cycles the wifi performance. It is fixable by monkeying with the power save settings. Once that was fixed, the machines started to perform flawlessly. Wonderful machines, but you have to get that under control.

his is a great laptop, and I really wanted it as a Windows-based replacement for my MacBook Air2, but unfortunately the Wi-Fi is horrible. You have to be almost ontop of a Hotspot in order for it to get a good signal. And I bought the fully loaded machine, i7 quad-core with 8GB RAM....it never even occurred to me that the Wi-Fi would be the limiter! In a test at ~25ft from a hotspot (which is the closest point that I could actually still have a signal on the Samsung 9), and using Speedtest.net website/apps.... > Macbook Air2 - Full bars and ~35Mbps download > Dell 6520 - Full bars and ~35Mbps download > Old Gateway Laptop with a slide in PC Card for Wi-Fi - Full bars and ~30Mbps download > iPad 2 - Full bars and ~28Mbps download > iPhone 4 - Full bars and ~25Mbps download > Samsung 9 - 1 Bar and <100Kbps That is a pathetic design deficiency for Samsung. How did that make it through their labs??? Let's be honest, if you are buying a really sleek, portable laptop, you are probably using it as a mobile device connecting to a hotspot (at work, at home, or on the go), this Wi-Fi issue makes it nearly unusable. Sorry Samsung, I absolutely LOVE your products, but you really dropped the ball on this one!