Among the other notebooks Samsung announced today is the QX410, a stylish system with plenty of power. It looks very similar to the Q430-11 which we reviewed last month. It has a brushed aluminum lid and deck, a chiclet-styly keyboard, and a fairly large 3.9 x 2.4-inch touchpad with integrated mouse buttons.
The notebook has a 14-inch edge-to-edge glass display, a Core i5 processor, and Nvidia graphics and Optimus technology.
Like the MacBook Pro and HP Envy lines, the QX410′s battery–5,500 mAh, good for about 7 hours of runtime on MobileMark– is not user replaceable; Samsung says that shouldn’t matter much, as the lithium-polymer battery is good for 1,000 cycles, or about 3 years.
The notebook will be available in late September, and be sold exclusively at Best Buy. The MSRP is $929, but Samsung expects it will go on sale for $849.