here in the Samsung booth we're going to start with the series 7 Kronos welcome
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Lis so this is an update to their existing Series 7 Kronos that adds
touchscreen functionality as well as an updated spec you can get this guy with
up to tab of storage 16 gigs of RAM a core i7 it is significantly thinner than
the old one but even more important than any of that is the fact that it ships
with a Radeon 8870 graphics card with 2 gigs of RAM so while this looks like a
professional machine that you could actually not look out of place at a
business meeting with it is a reasonably capable gaming machine to say the least
in terms of IO you've got your power in you've got this Innovative little
Ethernet Jack that pops down because the uh the profile of the notebook is
actually too SL for a full siize Ethernet Jack BGA out
again makes it suitable for business travel but also gaming HDMI out two
super speed usb3 ports a headphone microphone combo Port I want to just
show you guys the thinness of the unit with my trademark iPhone
comparison there you go nice big
touchpad love to see that especially with these wide format monitors it
drives me crazy it drives me crazy when
you have a small touch pad however that's not really where this guy shines
it has a 10-point multi-touch touch screen biggest difference between this
and the older Kronos on the other side we find SD expansion two USB 2.0 ports
as well as a Kensington lock we couldn't see this too well in the last shot but
I've turned on the backlit keyboard so the backlight shines through both the
letters and around the outside of the keys keys feel overall very solid and
actually wow look at that check this out guys so I'm going to do one of my trademark Flex tests so I'm putting fair
amount of pressure on the Note itself there's almost no flex to the unit
whatsoever so that really does show the build quality that goes into something
like this Beyond just the actual specs that it runs one thing I missed on that
last one guys is the JBL audio that's integrated I'm glad to see all
manufacturer pretty much all everyone stepping up and improving the audio
experience that you have with your notebook right here we have their Series
7 Ultra Book and this addresses every complaint I could have had about their
last generation Series 7 Ultra Book one thing is it adds the 10-point multitouch
the next thing is this is not a TN panel anymore this is a PLS panel which means
that the viewing angles are outstanding look at this Orange right here okay
that's not going to work if I do it that way look at this orange I'm going to tilt this you're going to see it still
looks orange so that is how you're going to have just a totally premium
experience with this Mo with this with this model I hate seeing TN panels on
high-end notebooks this is a truly high-end notebook it has an 8570 oh crap
I think I screwed that one up 8570 Samsung's upgraded Series 7 Ultrabook
has pretty much everything I could have asked for they've added dedicated
graphics with an 8570 radon graphics processor with 1 gig memory it's
configurable with a core i5 or a core i7
you can configure it with up to 256 gigs of SSD storage and last but not least up
to 8 gigs of memory but it's not all just about that so yes it's extremely
slim and that's all fine and good and all that so we'll do our traditional
iPhone comparison for thickness here I'm actually going to fold down the screen
just because it should wake up instantly because it has an SSD inside it there
you go extremely slim let's show the io so we've got one of those folding
gigabit Ethernet ports love seeing fulls siiz gigabit Ethernet on an Ultrabook
HDMI super speed USB 3 headphone
microphone combo VGA out with an adapter which makes it perfect for business two
USB ports Kensington lock and SD
expansion okay so yes gaming on the go
yes Ultrabook touchcreen now so we've added a full multi-touch touchcreen and
more important than anything else about it in my personal opinion is the fact
that they are no longer using a TN panel
on their Series 7 Ultrabook this is a PLS panel which means that when they say
178 degree viewing angle they actually mean it have a look at how the screen
looks from here I'm going to tilt it like this it looks the same except for
reflection your colors are not going to distort whether you change the angle
horizontally or vertically you can still see the color on the
screen love high-end screens love dedicated gpus and I love touchcreen
when it comes to Windows 8 machines so this looks pretty good stay tuned for
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