14 DAY TRIAL // If anyone thought Samsung wasn't interested in the gaming market, they have just been proven wrong as the company has been found to be working on a certain Series 7 great, black beast.
Whenever a lawsuit is filed against an IT company or another, courtroom clashes ensue, along with differing degrees of discouragement.
The discouragement happens less frequently to high-tier companies with secure economic footholds, sometime getting completely replaced with fervor.
Recently, Samsung has proven to be quite determined indeed, having decided to fight tooth and nail against Apple's copyright allegations, even getting a ban lift after Apple's suit was found to possess irregularieties.
Now, it is found that the tablet industry is not the only outlet that Samsung has been considering as a venue for business expansion.
Indeed, the outfit is getting ready to make a stand on one of the laptop segments it hasn't seriously tackled until now, that of gamers.
The folks over at Netzwelt.de and NewGadgets are the ones who uncovered information about one 700G7A notebook.
Measuring 17.3 inches in screen diagonal, it has a hardware configuration centered around a quad-core Intel Core i7 2 GHz CPU.
An AMD Radeon HD 6970M discrete graphics solution is present, along with up to 16 GB of RAM (random access memory) and a full HD LCD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels).
September is when sales will commence, for the price of 1,800 Euro, which is the rough equivalent of $2,600. Bluetooth 3.0, HDMI, USB 3.0, Blu-ray and all the expected connectivity and I/O capabilities (Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, audio, peripheral plugs, etc.) are included.
One might assume that just this hardware is not enough to justify dubbing this item as a gaming product, but the blue backlit keyboard with red highlights for the W, A, S and D keys more or less render any remaining doubt moot.