The Samsung ATIV One 7 Curved is an all-in-one PC with a concave screen. Samsung
Last year was the year of curvy TVs. In 2015, concave screens will be less pronounced in the world of television sets, but Samsung is bringing those curves closer to your eyeballs. It makes sense. Curvy works best when it’s right in front of your face, getting jiggy with your peripheral vision.
The new Ativ One 7 Curved is an all-in-one PC with a 27-inch screen. That matches the size of the 5K iMac, but its 1080p display doesn’t match the resolution. Instead, the Ativ One 7 has a curved 300-nit LED screen, giving users a slight immersive effect when they’re playing games or watching movies.
Let’s talk specs. The concave 27-incher packs a 2.2GHz Core i5 with 8GB RAM and integrated graphics, a 1TB flash drive, a pair of 10W speakers, and a 1080p Webcam. It runs Windows 8.1 and is about an inch and a half deep. Those are clearly more-modest specs than the UHD iMac, and the price matches up. Due in the first quarter of the year, it’s priced at $1,300.
Also curved for your eyeballs’ pleasure is the even-bigger SE790C, a 34-inch 21:9 monitor that bumps up the resolution to WQHD+ (3440 x 1440). It’ll accept sources via Display Port and HDMI 1.4 and also comes with five USB 3.0 ports. There’s a tradeoff for all that size and resolution, as it only has a 60Hz refresh rate.
Samsung’s new computers and peripherals aren’t all curveballs. The new Ativ Book 9 is more of a cutter. It’s a slick 12.2-inch ultraportable laptop that’s less than half an inch thick.
The Ativ Book 9 isn’t curved, but this 12.2-inch laptop weighs less than the 11-inch MacBook Air. Samsung
Despite having a bigger screen, the laptop weighs less than the 11-inch MacBook Air, clocking in at a mere 2.09 lbs. The Ativ Book 9 has a 2560 x 1600 LED screen, a Broadwell Intel Core M 5Y70 processor with 8GB RAM, a 256GB SSD, and 10.5 hours of battery life. That fully loaded configuration will go for $1,400 starting in the first quarter of 2015.
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