Samsung Series 9 Ultrabooks to Get Ivy Bridge Update - rankintwen1982

The fine and light Samsung Series 9 Ultrabooks testament be upgraded to Intel's Ivy Bridge. The upcoming 15-inch laptop will sport a Core i5 3317U central processing unit clocked at 1.7Ghz, according to a listing on Samsung's site, just the company didn't say when it would embody available to buy up, operating room for how a good deal.

The other processor for the 15-inch Serial publication 9 Ultrabook will bring off alongside an cleared HD 4000 GPU (from HD 3000) and a HM75 Utter chipset. The standardized RAM gets bumped to 8GB (2 x 4GB). The store for the updated Serial 9 Ultrabooks remains at a 128GB solid-state of matter drive and the display stays at a resolution of 1600 past 900 pixels.

The Samsung Series 9 laptops have received positive reviews so FAR, even though they feature yesterday's chipsets. My colleague Sarah Jacobsson Purewal reviewed the current 15-edge model and found it to be an fascinating machine given its slim profile and roomier sieve compared to most Ultrabook offerings, which have 13-inch screens.

The average battery life in PCWorld's test for the 15-inch model was just 7.5 hours, which is a notch in a higher place the 6.2 hours separate Ultrabooks (with little screens) managed to perform.

A couple of other areas Samsung might want to check over are the sound organization and the keyboard and touchpad for the Series 9, as those domain were deemed disappointing in PCWorld's review. The keys lack travel and experience delicate somatosense feedback, which makes information technology difficult to type accurately over long periods of time. Although the trackpad is large and demulcent, the multitouch gestures were jerky and outside, and the speakers worse than average.

Samsung didn't say when the reinforced Serial 9 Ultrabook would be available, or how much it would toll. Merely if the current model is any indication, expect the price mark down to be around the $1,500 mark.

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