Samsung has at the same time with a high-end variant is also a cheaper version of its Ativ Book 9 announced. The housing of this ultraportable is made of plastic, and the processor is a custom AMD quadcore-soc. There is a version with and a version without a touchscreen.
The casing of the Ativ Book 9 Lite has features of that of his high-endbroer, but instead of aluminum, there is used the plastic. Also, the machine is 17.4 mm thicker and is the weight of 1.58 kilograms higher. The 13,3″screen has a resolution of 1366×768 pixels, and Samsung comes out with a version with a touch screen and a cheaper version without.
The processor is a Samsung unspecified quad-core with a clock speed of 1.4 GHz. It comes to a at the request of Samsung by AMD custom Temash-apu with four Jaguar cores. What is striking is that Samsung is also in stores are not going to report it to an AMD apu. However, in the communication made it clear that the gpu part of the apu, the HD 8250.
The Ativ Book 9 Lite gets 4GB of ddr3 memory and a ssd with a capacity of 128GB. Gigabit ethernet access is via a supplied adapter. There is a backlit keyboard, a 3-in-1 card reader, micro-hdmi output into vga output via an adapter. There are two usb ports of which one of the 2.0 – and the 3.0-type. The battery is 30Wh, which is not much, but may know the apu with parsimony to combine. Samsung has no indication which battery life can be expected. The Ativ Book 9 Lite with glossy touchscreen is in the Netherlands for 799 euro and the laptop without a touchscreen but with a matte screen will give a suggested retail price of 699 euro. The ultraportable will be released in mid July, available in white and in black.
