Samsung starts shipping wafer-thin Series 9 laptop
Thinner, lighter, slicker – the Samsung Series 9 laptop already made computing fans drool when displayed at the international Consumer Electronics Week in New York City at the beginning of the year, and yesterday, it hit US shelves.
Considering its skinny appearance, this bad boy is deceptively powerful. It’s got a Intel Core i5-2537 dual-core processor as well as 128Gb SSD, which will make for headspinningly quick performance. To protect its bird-like skeleton, the Samsung Series 9 laptop’s body is made from duralumin (which once was used to build airship frames).
For this combination of cooler-than-Ice-T design, maximum skinniness and impressive power and speed, you would expect a fairly high price – and you’d be right. The cheapest model is yours for $1,649, and the UK price is rumoured to be around the £1,400 mark. It does look and feel great, but whether it’s worth the price we’ll only know in a couple of weeks’ time.
Like its main competitor, the Macbook Air, the Series 9 will come in an 11 inch as well as a 13.3 inch model.
The release date for the Samsung Sereis 9 laptop is estimated to be around mid-April.
Written by Matthias Scherer
Matthias is a journalist and writer covering the latest news in technology as well as reviewing new computer products for PC Site. After studying journalism and economics in London, Matthias worked in radio and as a music writer for various publications in the UK and Germany, covering everything from politics and music to online publishing and social media. He is a self-diagnosed internet addict, but wrestles himself away from the computer to read books by angry young men, put on punk or rap records and watch Seinfeld.
Fri, Mar 18, 2011