Samsung introduces Series 5 laptops with Trinity apus

Samsung already showed the laptops with Trinity APUs on the Computex, but now they have been officially introduced. The laptops are available in a 13.3″ or 14″ format, with a 17W or 25W APU. The price is considerably lower than with the Intel variants.

The Series 5 laptops with APUs from AMD are almost identical to the Series 5 laptops with Intel processors, which are sold under the name Ultrabook. The AMD variant, which AMD likes to call Ultrathin, is primarily intended to provide additional graphics processing power. The 17W APU, the A6-4455M, already offers better performance than the HD 4000 GPU that Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs have, and the A10-4655M takes it one step further.

All 5 Series laptops have a screen with 1366×768 pixels, weigh around 1.5 kilograms, and have at least 4GB of memory and a USB 3.0 port on board. The APU variants are also around 100 euros cheaper, but have to make do with a traditional 500GB or 750GB hard drive. The cheapest Intel variant has a 500GB HDD in combination with 24GB SSD cache memory on board, while the more expensive variant has a 128GB SSD.