The slate features a sizable 12.4-inch screen with a fluid refresh rate of 120Hz. It’s colorful, vibrant, and easily viewable outside, so if your new year’s plans include spending more time in the sun, you may want to start doing things you do while bundled up in your bed outside.
With the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip under the hood, it feels as fast as the speediest tablet on the market in day-to-day use, or thereabouts. I find reading to be especially enjoyable on big screens and if you use Chrome, the Tab S9 Plus will show the desktop view of websites by default.
For productivity work — you know, the kind you make your living off of — you have DeX, which imitates a desktop environment with resizable windowed apps.
The Tab S9 Plus comes with a stylus in the box and it’s a fun way to take notes or make doodles.
The slate has around five years of software support left, so it’s going to stay with for you a long time. That’s why, you’ll be wise to go for the 512GB model. It costs $999 but B&H has slashed its price by $220, so you can pick it up for $779. Make sure to add the coupon discount before checking out.
Full disclaimer: The Tab S9 supports expandable storage, so you don’t have to feel pressured into getting a 512GB model, but you can never really have enough storage, can you? Besides, microSD cards aren’t an extension of internal storage and you can’t save all apps on them.
