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The two-watt Atom chip inside the Series 5 is rated for about nine hours of battery life, whereas the Core i5-powered Series 7 is expected to last between four and five hours on a charge. (The Series 5 is lighter, too, at 1.65 pounds, compared with 1.89 for the Series 7.) And, being a lower-powered device, the Series 5 has no vents.
ENGADGET: Samsung announces Series 5 and Series 7 Windows 8 tablets with S Pen apps, optional keyboards
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The company got a jump on graphics chip rivals over the summer with a new series of graphics processors that have won strong reviews and grabbed market share from Nvidia, one of the chip industry's toughest competitors.
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As it turns out, it runs a quad-core version of AMD's new Temash chip, which is being billed as the first quad-core, x86-based SoC. (There's also a dual-core version.) Built into the chip is an HD Radeon 8000 series GPU with AMD's Graphics Core Next architecture, so in theory you should be able to pull off PC-caliber gaming even on a tablet.
ENGADGET: AMD shows off a reference device with a quad-core, x86-based Temash chip