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Samsung today unveiled its new range of Ultrabooks for its domestic market – South Korea. The Series 5 Ultrabooks will come in sizes of 14-inch and 13-inch and will feature Intel’s Core i5 processor, choices of going with 128GB SSD or HDD storage and up to 8GB RAM.

The 14-inch Ultrabook is just 20.9mm thick and weighs 1.8kg due to an aluminum chassis. On the hardware front, the Ultrabook features an anti-reflective 1366×768 display, 1TB HDD with 16GB SSD, an optical disc drive, AMD HD7550M GPU, USB port, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, VGA port and HDMI port.

The 13-inch Series 5 Ultrabook is slimmer than the 14-inch offering at just 14.9mm and weighs 1.4kg. Its hardware includes a smaller but similar resolution display with anti-reflective coating, 500GB HDD with 16GB SSD, integrated Intel graphics, USB, Ethernet, VGA, HDMI and Wi-Fi connectivity.

The new Ultrabooks are also equipped with ExpressCache that brings notebooks to life from hibernation in just 7 seconds and Fast Start starts the notebook in 2 seconds from Sleep State.

Series 5 will be available in South Korea by end of December for a price starting from 1,290,000 won (US$1125) for the 13-inch model whereas 1,340,000 won (US$1167) for the 14-inch variant.

[Via Sammy Hub]