 Hey, it's Chaim with The Verge, and I'm here with two of Samsung's new laptops that will be out early next year. This is the Galaxy Book Flex, and over here is the Galaxy Book Ion. They're replacing some of Samsung's older lineup. Galaxy Book Flex in particular is replacing the old Notebook 9 pen, and the Galaxy Book Ion is replacing the standard Notebook 9. And what you'll notice here is that these laptops look really good, or at least really good compared to Samsung's old design, which if we're being honest, was really bad. It's a similar design language that Samsung introduced earlier this year with the Notebook 9 Pro that it introduced at CES, and now it's trickling down to the rest of the range. Now in addition to the new design, Samsung is making a bunch of improvements across both laptops to make them a little more modern. The biggest change is the display, which is now a QLED display, similar to the ones that Samsung uses on its high-end TVs. Samsung says the display should have better color accuracy, and they're also much brighter. There's a new outdoors mode that lets them crank up to up to 600 nits outdoors, and they'll go up to 400 nits on regular mode. They're bright, they look great, especially compared to the old laptops. Another big improvement here is battery life. Samsung says that it's dramatically improved battery life on both laptops. It says that they both should last all day without any issues, although we'll obviously have to test that one out for ourselves before we know for sure. Another weird and interesting battery-related thing is these touchpads. You see, they're not just touchpads. They're actually full Qi wireless chargers. So you have your laptop out, and you can take your phone or your smartwatch or your wireless headphones, you can just drop them on the touchpad, and you can charge them. It's weird, but it's kind of neat, and it's honestly the sort of thing that I might actually end up using. So if you're using your laptop at your desk and you don't need the touchpad because you have a mouse or something, why not use it to charge your phone? Also new is this new S Pen, which, like the new S Pen on the Galaxy Note 10 introduced earlier this year, now has new Bluetooth and motion sensing features that let you use it to do things like control slideshows or, you know, move from afar. And it stores right in the side of the laptop. Now if you saw Samsung's Notebook 9 Pro from earlier this year, you'll notice a lot of the similarities in the design language. Gone are those, like, weird, bubbly corners that were on the old Samsung laptops. You have these much tighter, almost squared radiuses that just look a little more professional and less like a toy, which is really just nice to see. You'll also notice the bezels on the display have been dramatically shrunken down on both laptops, which is great because smaller bezels are great. No one likes big bezels. Both laptops also feature an all metal design. The Galaxy Book Flex is aluminum and the Galaxy Book Ion is magnesium, which feels a little more plasticky and a little more lightweight, but it's not plastic. Both laptops come in 13 inch and 15 inch sizes. They feature the usual spec boost that you'd expect from a year over year update. The Galaxy Book Flex has Intel's new 10th gen Ice Lake processors, whereas the Galaxy Book Ion has Intel's 10th gen Comet Lake processors. We don't know a lot about the rest of the specs. The bigger 15 inch models will have the option for an NVIDIA MX250 external GPU, but Samsung hasn't given us details on things like exact specs, pricing, release date, all of which it says should be coming in early 2020. And that the laptops should probably be priced similar to the existing Notebook 9 and Notebook 9 Pen. For more great videos on laptops and technology and phones and everything else gadget related, check out The Verge on YouTube.
 Hey, it's Chaim with The Verge, and I'm here with two of Samsung's new laptops that will
 be out early next year.
 This is the Galaxy Book Flex, and over here is the Galaxy Book Ion.
 They're replacing some of Samsung's older lineup.
 Galaxy Book Flex in particular is replacing the old Notebook 9 pen, and the Galaxy Book
 Ion is replacing the standard Notebook 9.
 And what you'll notice here is that these laptops look really good, or at least really
 good compared to Samsung's old design, which if we're being honest, was really bad.
 It's a similar design language that Samsung introduced earlier this year with the Notebook
 9 Pro that it introduced at CES, and now it's trickling down to the rest of the range.
 Now in addition to the new design, Samsung is making a bunch of improvements across both
 laptops to make them a little more modern.
 The biggest change is the display, which is now a QLED display, similar to the ones that
 Samsung uses on its high-end TVs.
 Samsung says the display should have better color accuracy, and they're also much brighter.
 There's a new outdoors mode that lets them crank up to up to 600 nits outdoors, and they'll
 go up to 400 nits on regular mode.
 They're bright, they look great, especially compared to the old laptops.
 Another big improvement here is battery life.
 Samsung says that it's dramatically improved battery life on both laptops.
 It says that they both should last all day without any issues, although we'll obviously
 have to test that one out for ourselves before we know for sure.
 Another weird and interesting battery-related thing is these touchpads.
 You see, they're not just touchpads.
 They're actually full Qi wireless chargers.
 So you have your laptop out, and you can take your phone or your smartwatch or your wireless
 headphones, you can just drop them on the touchpad, and you can charge them.
 It's weird, but it's kind of neat, and it's honestly the sort of thing that I might actually
 end up using.
 So if you're using your laptop at your desk and you don't need the touchpad because you
 have a mouse or something, why not use it to charge your phone?
 Also new is this new S Pen, which, like the new S Pen on the Galaxy Note 10 introduced
 earlier this year, now has new Bluetooth and motion sensing features that let you use it
 to do things like control slideshows or, you know, move from afar.
 And it stores right in the side of the laptop.
 Now if you saw Samsung's Notebook 9 Pro from earlier this year, you'll notice a lot of
 the similarities in the design language.
 Gone are those, like, weird, bubbly corners that were on the old Samsung laptops.
 You have these much tighter, almost squared radiuses that just look a little more professional
 and less like a toy, which is really just nice to see.
 You'll also notice the bezels on the display have been dramatically shrunken down on both
 laptops, which is great because smaller bezels are great.
 No one likes big bezels.
 Both laptops also feature an all metal design.
 The Galaxy Book Flex is aluminum and the Galaxy Book Ion is magnesium, which feels a little
 more plasticky and a little more lightweight, but it's not plastic.
 Both laptops come in 13 inch and 15 inch sizes.
 They feature the usual spec boost that you'd expect from a year over year update.
 The Galaxy Book Flex has Intel's new 10th gen Ice Lake processors, whereas the Galaxy
 Book Ion has Intel's 10th gen Comet Lake processors.
 We don't know a lot about the rest of the specs.
 The bigger 15 inch models will have the option for an NVIDIA MX250 external GPU, but Samsung
 hasn't given us details on things like exact specs, pricing, release date, all of which
 it says should be coming in early 2020.
 And that the laptops should probably be priced similar to the existing Notebook 9 and Notebook
 9 Pen.
 For more great videos on laptops and technology and phones and everything else gadget related,
 check out The Verge on YouTube.