Samsung Series 7 Chronos Gaming & Series 7 Ultrabook with Touch Screen Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
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·2013-05-07
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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
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touchscreen functionality as well as an updated spec you can get this guy with
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up to tab of storage 16 gigs of RAM a core i7 it is significantly thinner than
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the old one but even more important than any of that is the fact that it ships
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with a Radeon 8870 graphics card with 2 gigs of RAM so while this looks like a
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professional machine that you could actually not look out of place at a
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business meeting with it is a reasonably capable gaming machine to say the least
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in terms of IO you've got your power in you've got this Innovative little
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Ethernet Jack that pops down because the uh the profile of the notebook is
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actually too SL for a full siize Ethernet Jack BGA out
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again makes it suitable for business travel but also gaming HDMI out two
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super speed usb3 ports a headphone microphone combo Port I want to just
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show you guys the thinness of the unit with my trademark iPhone
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comparison there you go nice big
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touchpad love to see that especially with these wide format monitors it
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drives me crazy it drives me crazy when
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you have a small touch pad however that's not really where this guy shines
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it has a 10-point multi-touch touch screen biggest difference between this
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and the older Kronos on the other side we find SD expansion two USB 2.0 ports
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as well as a Kensington lock we couldn't see this too well in the last shot but
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I've turned on the backlit keyboard so the backlight shines through both the
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letters and around the outside of the keys keys feel overall very solid and
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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
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amount of pressure on the Note itself there's almost no flex to the unit
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whatsoever so that really does show the build quality that goes into something
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like this Beyond just the actual specs that it runs one thing I missed on that
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last one guys is the JBL audio that's integrated I'm glad to see all
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manufacturer pretty much all everyone stepping up and improving the audio
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experience that you have with your notebook right here we have their Series
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7 Ultra Book and this addresses every complaint I could have had about their
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last generation Series 7 Ultra Book one thing is it adds the 10-point multitouch
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the next thing is this is not a TN panel anymore this is a PLS panel which means
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that the viewing angles are outstanding look at this Orange right here okay
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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
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looks orange so that is how you're going to have just a totally premium
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experience with this Mo with this with this model I hate seeing TN panels on
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high-end notebooks this is a truly high-end notebook it has an 8570 oh crap
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I think I screwed that one up 8570 Samsung's upgraded Series 7 Ultrabook
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has pretty much everything I could have asked for they've added dedicated
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graphics with an 8570 radon graphics processor with 1 gig memory it's
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configurable with a core i5 or a core i7
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you can configure it with up to 256 gigs of SSD storage and last but not least up
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to 8 gigs of memory but it's not all just about that so yes it's extremely
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slim and that's all fine and good and all that so we'll do our traditional
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iPhone comparison for thickness here I'm actually going to fold down the screen
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just because it should wake up instantly because it has an SSD inside it there
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you go extremely slim let's show the io so we've got one of those folding
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gigabit Ethernet ports love seeing fulls siiz gigabit Ethernet on an Ultrabook
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HDMI super speed USB 3 headphone
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microphone combo VGA out with an adapter which makes it perfect for business two
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USB ports Kensington lock and SD
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expansion okay so yes gaming on the go
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yes Ultrabook touchcreen now so we've added a full multi-touch touchcreen and
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more important than anything else about it in my personal opinion is the fact
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that they are no longer using a TN panel
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on their Series 7 Ultrabook this is a PLS panel which means that when they say
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178 degree viewing angle they actually mean it have a look at how the screen
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looks from here I'm going to tilt it like this it looks the same except for
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reflection your colors are not going to distort whether you change the angle
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horizontally or vertically you can still see the color on the
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screen love high-end screens love dedicated gpus and I love touchcreen
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when it comes to Windows 8 machines so this looks pretty good stay tuned for
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