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hi I'm Scott Stein and this is the samsung series 9 no it isn't it's the samsung active book 9 eaten active book 9 yes this is a rebranding it's a new laptop it's not really a new laptop it's a rebranded laptop that you've seen before it is a laptop we liked a lot last year the samsung series 9 people this was a great MacBook Air competitor it had a revision last year looked even sleeker smaller than a macbook air 13 inches super sleek design matte display for those who care about that well this time the version that's been available since April has a 1080p display really really sharp and that's about it it has windows 8 but it has a last generation core i series processor your core i7 in this case dual core four gigs of ram your 128 gig or 256 SSD you know standard stuff and it ramps up to $1,500 1400 for the 128 gigabyte version so it's not cheap and you don't have a touchscreen no there's no touchscreen here at all does that matter well the macbook air doesn't have a touchscreen we don't hold that against it but that's because there's nothing that takes advantage of touch in Mac OS 10 but windows 8 obviously does and so you're going to have to rely on the trackpad here to get a lot of stuff done it's a pretty large and nice trackpad but it's no substitute for the convenience with apps of reaching up here and tapping and pinching if you go to desktop mode not such a big deal it has a backlit keyboard it's got all the stuff is the same stuff as last year really solid thin metal design crisp pretty dongle reliant though because you got HDMI and VGA and these are many ports so you got your two USB ports and that's about it and SD card slot tucked away yeah over here but I want this with touch and also there's no big deal about dropping the next generation core i series processors as far as speed but you're going to see a difference because the battery life the this got about five hours on our test and we're seeing laptops now getting eight nine hours the macbook air got 14 hours so this is now at the bottom end of that if you can live with five hours you know my paying fourteen hundred dollars there's a really sleek laptop but Samsung has other book nines coming out a book 9 lite a book 9 on the higher end not yet clear when there's going to come out in the US but you might want to hold on and see what comes down the pike because there's not a lot different here in the active book 9 / samsung series 9 kind of sort of i'm scott stein and that's a look at the new ish book 9 from samsung