December 12th, 2011, 13:24 by Peter
Samsung made official their Series 5 Ultrabooks – that’s right Ultrabooks, not Chromebooks – in South Korea. While not the thinnest or lightest, they pack some mouth-watering specs.
The Series 5 Ultrabooks come in two sizes, 13″ and 14″, but the difference between them is more than just an inch.
The 14″ model has a body carved out of aluminum that is 20.9mm thick and weighs in at 1.8kg. The screen has 1366×768 pixels resolution and anti-reflective coating (hooray!).
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The 13″ model has a screen with the same resolution and coating, but drops the dedicated GPU (relying instead on the CPU-hosted Intel GPU) and optical drive to reduce its overall dimensions to 14.9mm thickness and 1.4kg of weight.
You still get a Core i5 CPU and up to 8GB of RAM. The hard drive is 500GB big, but it’s still paired with a 16GB SSD for ExpressCache. The 13″ model has the same USB, Ethernet, VGA and HDMI ports.
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The Series 5 Ultrabooks will be available in South Korea by the end of the this year for $1300 for the 13″ model and $1170-$1340 (depending on configuration). There’s no info right now if (and when) the two will be available outside of Korea.
Ref:gsmarena
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