Samsung has revealed its latest addition to its laptop range, the X360, and has packed everything into a sleek little frame.
Sporting a 128GB solid state drive, this little beauty comes in red, black and erm...graduated red, so it's for the style conscious as well as the power hungry.
With a battery life of over 10 hours (six hours in real terms) thanks to the SSD, Samsung is clearly leveraging its expertise in flash drives to pimp this little lappie out.
It has a 13.3inch widescreen display and weighs in at just 1.27kg, which Samsung claimed was the lightest in class in its presentation at IFA 2008.
Snook cocking
Clearly cocking a snook to Apple, the tagline for the device is: "Lighter than air and fully featured."
Using a low voltage Intel Centrino 2 chipset, this laptop can be specced all the way up to £1,700-worth of power.
It also comes with a fingerprint scanner for security, a 7-in-1 card reader and silver nano-particles in the keyboard for bacteria resistance.
We had a quick play...there was no sign of the kitchen sink however.
Samsung is also planning to integrate HSDPA into the device as well, which should be available in 2009.
The X360 will debut in October across key markets: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland and The Netherlands, starting at £1150.
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mitel5215
August 30th 2008
5. Mrs Miggins,
I see your point about the devout love Apple followers have for OSX, and I'm not knocking it.
But that's precisely the point. Both devices do the same thing, but in different ways. What being pointed out is the fact that the two are styled the same (which is the most important thing to a lot of people, by the way) and the Samsung outclasses the Apple in almost every area.
If people love OSX to the point they could never deviate from it, then you're right, the comparison is flawed, as you can never run that on the Samsung.
But can they both play movies? See photos? use the web, edit, email, blog, make music etc etc? Yes.
They might do it in different ways, but (some creative industries aside) there's very few jobs where the OSX is crucial.
So you could easily move from a mac to a PC, and this one is far, far better than the Air. It's cheaper, longer lasting (battery-wise) and apart from having the hypnotic apple logo that some people might kill over, is better looking (in my opinion).
And don't say Apple didn't comprimise to make that thing thin. Connectivity was way down, no optical drive, and the specs are way better on other devices.
You say you're not an Apple fan boy but your angry response to the fact someone thinks a PC might be better than a Mac screams otherwise.
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mrsmiggins
August 29th 2008
4. The Macbook Air is not only about software. What I'm saying is people who want an OS X ultraportable will choose the Macbook Air. People who want to run Windows CAN choose a Macbook Air if they want, but will most likely choose a Samsung, Sony, etc. There's no other choice to run OS X.
Apple did NOT deliberately spec the machine down. They made it powerful but slim, with a full size keyboard. The manilla envelope was simply a marketing demonstration of how thin the Air is.
The Samsung vs Air style is completely subjective. You either like Apple designs or you don't. One certainly doesn't out style the other. On specs, yes, but we don't even know the CPU speeds going into these Samsung laptops.
Finally, to say there is no difference between an LCD war, is totally missing the point. I guess some will say, "I want the fastest", or, "it must have a card reader" and I don't care about the OS, for most the OS comes first. What software do they own? What OS are they familiar with? With an LCD they watch on it. Performance, size, connections etc comes down to the same as PC specs, not Apple or PC.
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mitel5215
August 29th 2008
3. Mrs Miggins: That is complete and utter rubbish. While I agree that Apple beating is a stupid sport, as the company is good at what it does, are you trying to tell me the MacBook Air is about the software?
Apple completely specced down that device to try and make it look fashionable for all the fanboys who like to keep their computers in manilla envelopes.
The Samsung might run Vista, but the point is it outstyles and outspecs the MacBook Air, which is the main thrust of that device.
Again, I agree the software comparisons come down to preference, but this is no different to an LCD war, where better, bigger and cheaper TVs deserve the 'rival beating' monicker.
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mrsmiggins
August 29th 2008
2. I hate this Apple vs ... fiasco. All of the net there's report after report of the next "Macbook Air Killer", or Iphone destroyer, etc.
This, and many other ultra portables, will not lay the Smackdown on the Macbook Air ... ever. Now, companies like Samsung make some pretty impressive gear, along with Sony, Toshiba, etc. But that's not the point. What you have to remember is that any laptop is only going to be as good as the software that it's running. So we have a great looking Samsung notebook and what software does it need to run? Windows! And that's why a non Apple ultra portable is never going to 'lay the smackdown on a Macbook Air'. It's pointless to compare the two.
Am I an Apple fan girl? No, not really, but I do like their software, and that's all that really matters at the end of the day. People choose the 'Air' if they want to run OS X, and other companies' products to run Windows.
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jmace86
August 28th 2008
1. X360? Sounds a little familiar...
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