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Samsung’s New Notebooks Are Super Skinny MacBook Clones

Samsung’s heavy borrowing of Apple’s design is pretty established by now — they’re getting the shit sued out of them for it! But, undeterred, they’re dropping the new Series 7 notebook, with wonderfully thin bezel, Apple looks, and great specs.

The Series 7 is only 0.9 inches thick, but the tiny bezel’s what catches my attention: only 0.25 inches. That’s a gorgeous thing to have in front of your face. Underneath all that brushed aluminium are some pretty damn good guts for the price: a 2.2-GHz Core i7 processor, 8 GB of RAM, a 750 GB (mechanical) harddrive, AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics, and two USB 3.0 ports. For $US1300? Very nice. It may be a MacBook ripoff, but I’d like to see Apple ripoff that price. [BusinessWire via Laptop Mag]

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    Robert

    Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 7:49 AM

    Gizmodo article titles are super obvious troll-bait.

    See how easy that was?

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      Theophilus

      Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 8:18 AM

      Totally agree Robert, bit over the deliberate baiting of fanboys…..

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    Chris

    Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 8:12 AM

    Were thin laptops really an Apple only design? I have an old Sony Vaio that is pretty damn thin.

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      olearymo

      Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 8:35 AM

      Gotta agree with you. Although it really looks like a Macbook, it also REALLY looks like an older Sony VAIO that had the same kinda metallic finish, back when Macbooks were white.

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    Michael

    Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 10:24 AM

    So much will Harvey Norman be trying to sell this one for? Three grand?

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    Sardo

    Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 1:00 PM

    As much as I hate to admit it, the oversize buttonless trackpad and the indentation on the lip for opening the screen are a little more than ‘inspired’ by the Macbook…
    However, happy to see other manufacturers FINALLY getting on board higher resolution screens in small packages! Might have found a budget replacement for my 3 year old Vaio Z at last!

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      olearymo

      Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 2:19 PM

      yes, admittedly, the touchpad is veeeery mac.

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    ozoneocean

    Friday, September 2, 2011 at 12:12 PM

    It’s just a laptop with some good specs. I see no “cloning” here. That’s a moronic assertion- like saying all skinny bald guys in ill-fitting turtle-necks are Steve Jobs clones.

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    minish

    Friday, September 2, 2011 at 6:12 PM

    Does anybody know if this laptop will come with a back-lit/ illuminated keyboard?

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