The Korea-made portable also concedes a certain amount of thickness, ranging between 0.66 inches and 1.2 inches thick, but in return has features omitted from the Air such as Ethernet, an ExpressCard/34 slot and a multi-format card reader. It also finds room for three USB ports, HDMI and VGA out, and a fingerprint reader. Wireless is currently equal to the MacBook with 802.11n but should have options for 3G cellular and WiMAX data before the end of 2008.
Samsung mandates solid-state drives for storage and will offer a base 1500-Euro ($2,213) model with a 64GB flash drive. Higher-priced models climb as high as 2000 Euros ($2,951) for an edition of the X360 with a 128GB drive.
