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Samsung’s Series 5 550P is a hefty ol’ desktop replacement laptop, not to be confused with the slim n sleek Series 5 ultrabook we looked at back in the spring.

It’s on sale now for around ￡850.

“Wot, another series 5,” you ask. But despite Samsung releasing a series 5 ultrabook in the spring, this is an altogether different beast. It’s a sturdy 32mm thick and at 3kg, it’s light enough to be portable, just about — there’s certainly no mistaking this beast for an ultrabook, though it does look relatively slimline next to its even bigger brother, the Samsung Series 7 Gamer.

Ultrabooks, as we know, are lightweight and great fun, but when you need to get serious, you’ll need a serious laptop, and the Series 5 550P certainly has some serious performance credentials. Its 17in screen is more than big enough to allow you to work comfortably in several windows at once, and features an impressively sharp pixel count of 1600×900 — not quite full 1080p HD, but certainly getting close, which is very welcome at this price point. It has an anti-reflective coating too, which seemed to do the job, allowing us to work easily by the window on a bright day.

The keyboard is nicely spaced and responsive too — easy for big fingers to batter away on, and the touchpad has actual buttons too, which are always welcome. The only problem is the lack of backlighting, which can get a bit irritating if you’re accustomed to working in lowish light.

It has a decent set of connections, with four USB slots (including a pair of fast 3.0s), single HDMI, VGA and Ethernet ports, as well as separate microphone and headphone jacks and an SDXC multicard reader.

The 2.1 JBL speaker system pumps out a pretty good sound too, with the subwoofer refusing to get rattily even with the battle scenes from Avatar on Blu-ray at top volume. There’s possibly a slight trade-off with midrange and treble detail, which you’ll notice more when listening to music rather than watching films, and if that’s an issue, headphones are your best bet.

The processor is a 2.3GHz quad-core Intel ‘Ivy Bridge’ Core i7-3610QM backed by 8GB RAM — powerful stuff in other words. It delivered a PCMark benchmark rating of 2563, which puts it just behind Samsung’s Series 7 Gamer behemoth but ahead of the Series 9. To put that in perspective it made blisteringly fast work of encoding our test 11-minute movie for iTunes — just 1min 33secs, putting it a smidgeon ahead of the Toshiba Satellite P855-G10 and therefore any other laptop we’ve tried. Frame rates when playing Portal were excellent too, sitting comfortably around 290-300fps.

Battery life could be a bit better though. Even though this is a machine that’s likely to spend most of its time plugged into the mains, you’ll still want to go off-piste from time to time, and three hours really isn’t a lot of time to get much done — especially since using Wi-Fi will drop that time considerably. Fortunately, it charges up pretty quickly.

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This is a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) test facility in Ludvika, Sweden. Here, Swiss technology giant ABB tests devices such as breakers, disconnectors and transformers to withstand voltages of up to 800kV. The tower on the far left is a voltage impulse generator. Its capacitors (in blue) are charged and discharged in two milliseconds – like a lightning strike. The baubles and doughnuts around the room prevent electrical flashovers.

ABB has been testing its new breakers throughout 2012. The part stops current running through a power line if a fault occurs, and prevents blackouts spreading. “We can [stop direct current] in less than five milliseconds,” says ABB technology manager Per Skytt.

Adopting the new breaker could help switch more electricity supplies over to renewable power. It’s hard to stop direct current (DC) quickly in case of emergencies or maintenance work, which is one reason the power lines to our homes use alternating current (AC). But DC lines are better suited to renewables, because they are more efficient at transporting electricity over remote or offshore areas. ABB is working with big utilities providers to set up a test run with the breaker. “We’re talking about five years until it is in larger networks,” says Skytt.

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Thus far, plenty of ink has been spilled regarding the Tesla Model S and the fallout from the New York Times article, and it even showed up in our latest podcast. I feel like my perspective on this topic, as someone who has worked in the EV space as an engineer for the last four years, as well as driving a family owned Nissan Leaf for the last year and a half, is a bit different from our editors who discussed it, as well as most of the others who have written about it.

I’m not particularly interested in getting involved with the back and forth or analyzing what either party said – I feel like the Times reporter didn’t really understand how EVs work, nor how to drive them, and I don’t really agree with Elon Musk’s Matlab data infused response (it felt too vitriolic to get across any point other than Tesla being angry about the article). And just to go back to the point about not understanding how EVs should be driven, you have to tailor your driving style to suit the powertrain in order to get the maximum out of the EV – if you don’t want to, you’re going to be disappointed. Consider it like needing to switch keyboard shortcuts when you move from Windows to OS X – it’s a slight mental recalibration that has to happen for you to use the platform to its fullest. But that’s another story for another time.

What I feel like is getting lost here is actual EV performance in cold weather, or hot weather, or really anything in the way of hard numbers. We all know that battery performance is reduced in more extreme environmental conditions, and that all cars, regardless of powertrain type, consume more energy (fuel or battery) in those extreme climates. Unfortunately, quantifying these general ideas is a bit more difficult. That’s where I come in.

Technology Background
First, a bit of background. I spent the last few months working in Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Powertrain Research Facility (APRF). They’re an extremely knowledgeable group of engineers and scientists whose job it is to test advanced technology vehicles in their temperature controlled dynamometer facility, which can sustain temperatures anywhere between -5 F to 100 F. Most of this research is done as a part of the Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technology Program.