 Hey guys this is Joanna for The Verge and I am here with the new Samsung Series 9. This is the old one here on the right, the new one here on the left and you can see they've done a lot of redesigning and it's really really nice. I'm a really big fan of the black lid, sort of different than what we've been seeing from the rest of the Ultrabooks out there, though they aren't calling this one an Ultrabook actually. But anyway it is really thin but they fit on a number of ports. There's actually an SD card slot right down there which is really nice. They fit that in, didn't have it on the first one. Other than that just the make here feels really good, better than most of the Ultrabooks I've been seeing. Let me open up the lid here so you can see what's going on there. Again just to talk about the make, it's aluminum all around. The palm rest here feels like aluminum as well, though it has sort of a rubber feel to it and they said they've improved that since the original. The display is 13 inches, it's got a 1600 by 900 resolution which is pretty nice, also a 400 nit brightness there. It's also got a backlit keyboard, it's not on right now but you can see sort of the spacing here, it's pretty nice. And internally it's gonna have a core i5 processor, 128 gigabyte SSD and 4 gigabytes of RAM and they're not positive on the pricing at least of the time I'm shooting this, which is a little bit before CES, but they're saying it's going to be lower than $1,500. So that is a first look here at the Samsung Series 9, hoping to get a deeper look at it in a couple weeks and do a full review to test out the battery and the performance.
 Hey guys this is Joanna for The Verge and I am here with the new Samsung
 Series 9. This is the old one here on the right, the new one here on the left and
 you can see they've done a lot of redesigning and it's really really nice.
 I'm a really big fan of the black lid, sort of different than what we've been
 seeing from the rest of the Ultrabooks out there, though they aren't calling
 this one an Ultrabook actually. But anyway it is really thin but they fit on
 a number of ports. There's actually an SD card slot right down there which is
 really nice. They fit that in, didn't have it on the first one. Other than that just
 the make here feels really good, better than most of the Ultrabooks I've been
 seeing. Let me open up the lid here so you can see what's going on there.
 Again just to talk about the make, it's aluminum all around. The palm rest here
 feels like aluminum as well, though it has sort of a rubber feel to it and
 they said they've improved that since the original. The display is 13 inches,
 it's got a 1600 by 900 resolution which is pretty nice, also a 400 nit brightness
 there. It's also got a backlit keyboard, it's not on right now but you can see
 sort of the spacing here, it's pretty nice. And internally it's gonna have a
 core i5 processor, 128 gigabyte SSD and 4 gigabytes of RAM and they're not
 positive on the pricing at least of the time I'm shooting this, which is a little
 bit before CES, but they're saying it's going to be lower than $1,500. So that is
 a first look here at the Samsung Series 9, hoping to get a deeper look at it in a
 couple weeks and do a full review to test out the battery and the performance.