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Samsung Launches 3200x1800 Pixel ATIV Book 9 Plus Laptop

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-new dept.

sfcrazy writes "As expected Samsung has updated its Ultrabook family giving direct competition to Apple's MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. When Apple launched its MacBook Air with 12 hours of battery life every one was looking at only one company to outdo Apple and that company was Samsung and the leading Android maker did not disappoint. With the launch of ATIV Book 9 Plus featuring:

* 256GB SSD (seems 128GB would be the base model)
* 3200x1800 resolution
* Touch Screen
* Haswell Processor
* 12 Hours battery life
* More 'standard' ports as compared to Apple's proprietary ports."

14 of 397 comments (clear)

  1. Apple's has proprietary ports? by dugancent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Care to name them?

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    1. Re:Apple's has proprietary ports? by the_B0fh · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Thunderbolt is proprietary the same way USB is proprietary - both are owned by Intel.

    2. Re:Apple's has proprietary ports? by fnj · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Meanwhile the rest of us use USB 3.0 and eSATA and have a FAR wider choice of drives which cost far less.

  2. Re:Proprietary ports? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thunderbolt is a standard now? Show me a non-Intel Thunderbolt host implementation then.

    Remember kids, calling something a standard doesn't make it a standard. Documenting it doesn't make it a standard. Documentation plus multiple independent implementations capable of interoperating makes it a standard.

  3. Ya know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    I've NEVER gotten the battery life i was sold out of any portable device.

    Ever.

    And laptops? Not even close... be lucky if i got %50 at best.

    And that's not even doing much. just browsing.

  4. crap article by Ritchie70 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TFA is hideous. Poorly written and says nothing really factual except that Samsung has a sexy new laptop out.

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  5. Will it run Linux? by sconeu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or even Win7?

    Does it have the stupid-ass "Secure Boot"? Does it need to be disabled?

    DETAILS!!! Even the CNet article linked in the comments doesn't cover this.

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  6. Re:Samsung Linux? by Arker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Why on earth would you want to use a Samsung Linux distro?"

    First reason - to be sure you have all the drivers. (Better way to ensure that is simply to donate the drivers and specs to the kernel team for maint but people still think this way.)

    Second reason - a fantasy that Samsung would actually clean up the UI and make a more polished OS. (Doubtful, the last time I saw a company try this it was Asus and their Linux version was exactly the opposite of polished. And I mean it was bloody awful. It was clear that it was made by someone who had no clue about linux, and I expect Samsung would do little better.)

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  7. *sigh* by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1, Insightful

    To conform to the UEFI spec there must be a way to disable secureboot. Its really not a big deal. Yes your beloved AMD is just one of the other members of the UEFI group. Secureboot does as much as the TPM module that Slashdot claimed would kill Linux.

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  8. Re:Proprietary ports? by martinX · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While micro HDMI and mini VGA might not be proprietary, if you expect to plug them into anyone else's displays and you aren't carrying an adapter cable, you're going to be disappointed. Samsung should have put in a Thunderbolt port and sold adapters.

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  9. Re:borat by cbhacking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft mandates that all Windows OEMs who implement UEFI Secure Boot for WIndows 8 also allow the user to disable Secure Boot. Even Microsoft's own Surface Pro has this option. This has been widely reported for months now, there are easy-to-find tutorials online discussing how to do it, and...

    People are *still* complaining about that? Really?

    Ubuntu is adding Secure Boot support so that you can leave Secure Boot enabled while running Linux, as a protection against malware attacking or replacing the bootloader (either on the internal storage or removable media). This is a reasonable enough goal. However, it is not and never has been required if you want to dual-boot or want to replace Win8 entirely.

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  10. Re:Resolution by sosume · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have never heard of Windows desktop software struggling with monitor resolution. Please elaborate. Everything is fine here at 2550x1600, why would 3200x1800 suddenly cause 'too many programs' to 'not run properly'?

  11. Re:borat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Microsoft mandates that all Windows OEMs who implement UEFI Secure Boot for WIndows 8 also allow the user to disable Secure Boot.

    Only on x86.

  12. Re:Resolution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Try using a version of Windows that isn't 15 years old. 640x480 isn't even a supported resolution, you stupid fuck.