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I've got an acronym we are here taking a look at the samsung series 5 now we've looked at series five laptops before I'm sure we're gonna look at them again that this 13-inch model however is a little bit different and that it is the first one we're seeing with Windows 8 and a touchscreen on it which means that Samsung has taken its existing series fine line which has been perfectly nice and updating it so it goes toe-to-toe with pretty much every other current laptop out there the nice thing about this particular system is it sits right in the middle of kind of the price band we've seen a lot of 13-inch Windows 8 laptop Center $1,300 it's even $1,600 very nice machines we've seen a bunch of Windows 8 laptops that are under $600 and for the money that you spend they're actually pretty good although a little bit more plasticky not quite as high-end the series 5 here even though samsung has higher-end line like the series 7 and the series 9 this one is still made almost entirely of metal feels very solid nice brushed metal sort of accents on the back of the lid on the keyboard tray here you definitely would not be embarrassed to pull this out at a coffee shop even though it's Samsung's mid price line this particular configuration has got a Core i5 processor it's got a standard 500 gig hard drive with a little SSD cache on it and it's 850 which is a pretty reasonable price especially when you consider the design and the construction the workmanship is definitely a little bit above average from what you normally get for that price there are a couple of things that make this feel like a little bit more of a budget product number one is the screen resolution is only 1366 by 768 that still works for a 13-inch laptop any bigger and it sort of starts to look a little bit dated and you've also got the touchpad with the separate left and right mouse buttons in most moderate or more high end laptops they're all moving towards that single pad click pan design where the buttons are sort of integrated right into it other than that however you pretty much get all the bells and whistles that you'd expect from a current Windows 8 laptop including the the 10 input touchscreen for 850 bucks you're probably not going to find something that's quite as solid quite as roadworthy as this I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the samsung series 5