What standard does the SSD use? If it can be upgraded, that would be important to know given how quickly SSD technology is advancing and pricing is dropping.Ħ. No 802.11ac? How many transmit and receive channels does it have? Whose WiFi cad is it?ĥ. But if one needs portability then one also needs battery life and pixel-packed screens like this don’t do very much to conserve battery life, especially when running pixel-pumping applications like games. If one doesn’t need portability then one doesn’t need a laptop and a desktop is a far better buy. I still can’t understand why people would want laptop portable computers with screens like this. Also, I wish people would stop using the marketing term “retina display” because it doesn’t mean anything either with respect to resolution or pixel density–“Retina display” can mean anything on any given day of the week. No one should fall for the pixel-density marketing gimmick without considering the size of the monitor–the power of the gpu–the applications they’ll run that will support it (besides the desktop!) Etc. The pixel density is fine–the size of the monitor is very much not fine. I was using larger monitors in 1986 when the only thing smaller were the grossly overpriced monochrome Apple monitors of the day. That sort of “pixel density” is both a gimmick and a waste when it’s constrained to a scant 13″ of monitor space. Now, all Samsung needs to do is serve up a slightly less insane pixel density in a sub-$1,000 notebook, and I’ll be set for my next upgrade. The MacBook Pro is also thicker and heavier, at 0.75" and 3.57 lbs. The closest competitor I can think of is Apple’s 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display, which starts at $1,499 with a lower, 2560×1600 display resolution and an older Ivy Bridge processor (albeit one with a higher clock speed). I can’t speak to the build quality of the machine, but $1,400 sounds like a pretty sweet deal considering the specs. It looks like the system is just 0.5" thick and weighs only 2.56 lbs, as well. That price tag gets you a 1.6GHz Core i5-4200U processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of solid-state storage, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and Windows 8. The e-tailer charges $1,399.99, including shipping, and expects to ship the machine on August 20. I’m not seeing the system listed at Amazon or Newegg, but it is available for pre-order at B&H. As Engadget reports, a variant of the system with a 13.3" 3200×1800 touch screen is coming out later this month.
The latest example of this trend? Samsung’s ATIV Book 9 Plus.
Ultra-high pixel densities are already a fact of life in tablets, and now, they’re finally starting to propagate in the laptop world.
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