Samsung undercuts Retina MacBook Pro with $1,399.99 Ativ Book 9 Plus

Samsung's looking to offer laptop buyers a compelling alternative to Apple's machines with its new marquee Windows 8 ultrabook, the Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus. The company has revealed today that the high-end machine will start at $1,399.99 and will go up for pre-order on August 18th. That price means the laptop is far from affordable, but the ultrabook is one of the best we've seen this year. Samsung's using an astounding 13.3-inch, 3,200 x 1,800 touchscreen in the machine's 0.54-inch-thick aluminum unibody shell.

Back when the company first showed off the (horribly named) laptop in June it promised an excellent 12 hours of battery life, which would make the Ativ Book 9 Plus a mighty competitor to the much lower-resolution MacBook Air....

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