Review: Windows-powered Samsung Series 7 Slate PC

Ahead of the release of Windows 8, Samsung has announced a brilliant small Series 7 Slate desktop PC with Windows 7 Home Premium. The new Windows 7 PC from Samsung is celebrated for various features such as an 11.6-inch tablet or laptop-like touchscreen, Bluetooth keyboard, digitizer pen, Intel Core i5 processor and others. Samsung is really a breathtaking innovator of advanced technologies and products. The Korean firm has a famous 10.1-inch Android tablet, called Galaxy Tab 10.1 and a number of notebooks and tablets including Chrome OS-based Chromebooks. It is here we are to receive a desktop computer with many laptop and tablet-like features. Here is a complete rundown to the upcoming Samsung Series 7 Slate PC from Samsung:

Samsung Series 7 Slate PC

What is it?

Samsung Series 7 Slate PC is a small and lightweight desktop PC that works with Windows 7 Home Premium. The company has just announced that the machine will soon surface the PC into stores to steal the hearts of customers, who love a Samsung PC with Windows OS.

Key features

The Series 7 Slate PC features the guts of a laptop with a dual-core Core i5-2467M processor from Intel, 4GB of RAM and 64 or 128GB SSD for data storage. The PC sports a cute 11.6-inch touchscreen display with a stylus. If you are not feeling good with the touchscreen input interface, you can go for the Bluetooth keyboard and slate dock (both require extra payment). The computer features a 2-megapixel front camera for video calls and a 3-megapixel camera in the rear panel. Well, the tablet’s rear camera is coming up on PCs too.

What’s innovative?

Raising critical challenge to its rivals like ASUS Eee Slate, Samsung Series 7 Slate highlights many innovative features. The device features an exclusive Fast Start Technology of Samsung for instant booting. Thanks to the feature, you have to wait only 30 seconds to get Series 7 Slate PC booted up. It can wake up from hybrid sleep mode in just two seconds.

For providing inputs, the Samsung desktop PC has several options. First of all, it has a touchscreen display with a digitizer pen. Furthermore, you can depend on a wireless keyboard and slate PC dock for inputs. Activities like writing, typing, creating documents, online research and giving presentations will be easy tasks on the slate.

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Samsung Series 7 Slate PC

Windows-powered Samsung Series 7 Slate PC combines tablet with laptop

Price and availability

Samsung is to sell its Series 7 Slate desktop PC for a price of $1,099. The device will possibly appear in stores early next year.

Accessories

Key accessories of the Series 7 Slate include a Bluetooth keyboard and slate dock, which are respectively priced at $100 and $80. A digitizer pen, user manuals, headphones and other accessories come packed-up with the desktop PC for free.

The up side

Though running on Windows 7, Series 7 Slate will have a great Windows-8-like touch interface. The device’s 11.6-inch display is a great touch interface. Windows 8 is to have enhanced touchscreen interface. Customers can just use the touchscreen display to provide inputs now to a PC. A high performing processor, RAM, rear camera, webcam, instant booting and many other features can be counted as the major other upsides of Series 7 Slate PC from Samsung.

The down side

Since it is a desktop PC, it is not easy to type screen on the system’s screen. You should have to buy a keyboard and dock to handle the product easily.

The bottomline

Samsung develops products eyeing at the audiences that look for novel and advanced products. From its tablets, smartphones and notebooks, the South Korean electronics giant keeps up a tradition of innovation and perfection. Indeed, the new and upcoming Series 7 Slate is to become one of leading competitors in the desktop PC market with its cutting edge features like small size, touchscreen display, affordable price, pen digitizer, Bluetooth keyboard and many others. The system can really raise stiff challenge to all its competitors as it is running on the highly efficient Intel Core i5 processor and other incredible features.