[IFA 2011]Samsung Series 7 laptop has quad-core i7, Radeon graphics and aluminum body, starts at $999

Samsung showed off the Series 7 laptops, which will keep the Series 7 Slate PC company. The laptops come in 14″ and 15.6″ flavors and go up to quad-core Core i7 and to make sure the powerful CPU is busy, there’s an 8GB SSD cache for the hard drive.

Prices start at $999 and for that price you get a brushed aluminum body that’s under 2.5cm thick and weighs 2.29kg (for the 15.6″ model, the 14″ model is 1.95kg).

Samsung brags about having fit a 14″ screen in a laptop the size of a 13.3″ model. And what a display it is – both the 14″ and 15.6″ models come with 1600×900 displays with 300nits of brightness.

There’s a AMD Radeon 6490M or 6750M GPU feeding the display, depending on the model. No struggling with Intel-made graphics here.

As for the processors, the 15.6″ Series 7 laptops offer Intel Core i7 2675QM quad-core processors, while the 14″ model has Core i5 2430M dual-core. Even the quad-core versions promise up to 9 hours of battery life.

All but the cheapest $999 model have 8GB SSD and ExpressCache technology aiding their 750GB hard drives – Samsung claims this provides faster boot times and better overall performance.

Source:http://blog.gsmarena.com/ifa-2011samsung-series-7-laptop-has-quad-core-i7-radeon-graphics-and-aluminum-body-starts-at-999/