


It has all the trappings of a powerful, portable machine, and can even be purchased with LTE connectivity – for the truest of road warriors. But it weighs only slightly over three pounds, and Samsung claims it will get eight hours of battery life. It has a crazy-sharp 13.3-inch 1080p display with optional touch, a Core i5 or i7 processor, a discrete AMD HD8570 GPU with 1GB of memory, and can be customized with up to 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. The Series 7 Ultra strikes a slightly more sensible balance, while still offering specs near the high-end of the ultrabook range. It's a beast, which means that even though Samsung hasn't announced pricing we're betting it'll cost a pretty penny. The 5.18-pound metal laptop also has a 15.6-inch 1080p display, an optional 10-point touchscreen, and Samsung says that even with so much to power the Chronos will still get as much as 11 hours of battery life.

The computer can use part of that RAM as a ramdisk to further speed things. The Series 7 Chronos is aimed at pros and offers up to 1TB of hard drive storage, a powerful Radeon HD 8870 graphics chip with 2GB of memory, a quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, and up to 16GB of RAM in a chassis just over 20mm thick. The new Series 7 Chronos and Series 7 Ultra bring a lot of horsepower to Samsung's lineup - they join the Series 7 Slate and Series 7 Gamer as the company's flagship laptops, with everything now optimized and tuned for Windows 8. Ahead of CES next week, Samsung has announced two new models at the top of its PC lineup.
