Samsung X360 is a new Ultra portable laptop hitting the market in September onwards. The market of Ultra portable laptops has seen tremendous demand since Apple’s MacBook Air caught the attention of people. MacBook Air redefined the concept of ultra portable laptops and improved the taste of consumers. Following MacBook Air, other famous vendors tried to use the new technology to make very thin and lig
htweight ultra laptops with artistic designs. HP’s Voodoo Envy 133 and Lenovo’s ThinkPad X200 and ThinkPad X300 and today’s Samsung X360 ultra laptops have tried to challenge MacBook Air with their lightweight, thinness, better features and fabulous modern designs. Already I have compared MacBook Air with Envy 133, 12-inch ThinkPad X200, ThinkPad X300 and Toshiba Portege R500 that you can read them in the following entries: -Lenovo Launches ThinkPad X200- A Serious Rival for MacBook Air With 0.8-in thickness -ThinkPad X300 Gets Review, Benchmark and Comparison with MacBook Air -HP’s Voodoo Envy 133 vs. MacBook Air vs. ThinkPad X300; First Review and Video -Which one is Thinnest: Toshiba Portege R500 or MacBook Air?Samsung X360 ultra portable laptop is based on Centrino 2 like ThinkPad X200 and sports a 13-inches bright glossy LED-backlit display (1280 x 800) as well as a Centrino 2 ULV processor.
Following Macbook Air and Voodoo Envy 133 laptops, Samsung X360 doesn’t provide any built-in Optical drive either, but TinkPad X300 come with built-in optical drives
Samsung X360 is powered by 1GB of RAM up o 4GB, a 64GB or 128GB SSD or option for a 5400RPM 120GB HDD and an integrated Intel’s X4500 graphics card.
Samsung X360 weighs in at 2.8 pounds (1.27Kg) and measures 0.66- 1.2 inches thick. X360 is not only lighter than Mac Air (3 lbs), but it is lighter than 12-in ThinkPad X200 (2.95 lbs), 13-in ThinkPad X300 (2.9 lbs) and Voodoo Envy 133 (3.37 lbs).
Regarding thinness, X360 can not compete with MacBook Air (0.16 to 0.76-inches thickness) but X360 is thinner than other rivals including Envy 133 laptop (0.70-inches), and ThinkPad X300 (0.73-inches thickness) and ThinkPad X200 (0.80-inches thickness).
The X360 will be priced at about £1200.
Engadget could have hands-on Samsung X360. According to them:
- Samsung X360 has a build somewhere in-between the plastic-ish Voodoo Envy 133 and the rock-solid ThinkPad X300
- The design is special and attractive with the brushed metal finish on the back
- Keyboard looks cheaper than the design, not as crisp as an Apple keyboard but comfortable
- The LED Backlight Display is bright but not too glossy
- There are enough ports and slots which you can not find them on MacBook Air
- The next-gen 128GB SSD offers for his laptop decrease he boot time a 25-50 percent
- Samsung X360 is thicker than MacBook Air, but 3 ounces lighter than Air (weight of 1.36Kg)
With the features that Samsung X360 sports it can easily challenge its serious rivals mentioned above, especially MacBook Air. However, about the matter of thickness MacBook Air has saved its crown, yet.
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