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LAS VEGAS — Samsung’s Book 9 is one of the better laptop designs you can buy, and it’s (literally) getting a big upgrade for 2014. The ATIV Book 9 2014 Edition, introduced at CES, is a 15.6-inch model that sports the same curved wedge design that made the original Series 9 a pleasure to use.

Like last year’s Book 9 Plus, the Book 9 2014 Edition has a full HD display and includes the SideSync software package that makes the Ultrabook your Galaxy phone’s best friend: Notifications are shared, for example, and screen mirroring is effortless.

Although the screen is on the big side (most laptops this size have a 15.4-inch display), Samsung still emphasizes portability with its new ATIV model: It’s just 0.63 inch at the thickest point, and 3.92 pounds. By comparison, the 15.4-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display is 4.46 pounds.

Samsung says it’s made some improvements to the display, including a better coating for the screen that cuts down on reflectivity but doesn’t compromise its touchscreen response. The viewing angle is 178 degrees, and the brightness gets a bump to 300 nits from 250 in last year’s model. With the upgrade to Intel’s Haswell chips, battery life jumps up, too: Samsung rates the laptop at 14 hours.

Audiophiles will have lots to celebrate about the ATIV Samsung Book 9 2014 Edition since it contains a Wolfson digital-to-analog converter for lossless audio. That means you’ll get studio-quality sound from the device as long as the source is lossless, too. As it happens, Samsung is also introducing lossless audio from its Music Hub (both download and streaming) — the first online music service to do so.

Besides the Book 9, Samsung is debuting a new all-in-one PC at CES. The ATIV One 7 has a slim design with curved edges that’s a conscious callback to the company’s Galaxy Tab tablets, and it has many of the new upgrades of the Book 9 2014 Edition including full HD resolution, a 178-degree viewing angle and an anti-reflective screen.

On the audio side, the ATIV One 7 also supports lossless audio, but with a twist: It can also act as a Bluetooth speaker while in sleep mode, and it has the hardware — a pair of 7-watt speakers, with tweeters — to do it. The machine also supports aptX to help minimize the audio artifacts that can happen over Bluetooth connections.

In sleep mode, the ATIV One 7 can also still act as a remote server for your content for when you need to access it remotely.

Both the ATIV Book 9 2014 Edition and the One 7 will be available in the first half of the year. No pricing has been announced.

Samsung CES 2014 Press Conference

Michael Bay Flees Stage at Samsung Conference

Michael Bay was cued up to deliver an endorsement of the content on TVs such as Samsung’s new 105-inch curved screen. Bay’s teleprompter wasn’t working and the director, clearly nervous already, declared that he would “wing it” — but gave up and walked offstage a few seconds later.

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Mark Cuban Makes an Appearance

Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner and reality TV star, got on the Samsung stage to give two thumbs up to the brand’s ultra-high-definition technology.

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Samsung Home Appliances

With its 5.6 cu. ft. capacity washer and 9.5 cu. ft. capacity dryer, the Samsung WF9000 front-load laundry pair offers more capacity. Even when washing giant loads, like two king-size comforters, consumers just need one cycle to get it all done.

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Samsung Kitchen Appliances

Samsung announced its Chef Collection suite of premium, professional level kitchen appliances. No pricing information has been released yet.

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Samsung Club des Chefs

This first-of-its-kind global culinary initiative, launched in 2013, has brought together world class chefs to collaborate with Samsung on the development of next-generation products.

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Samsung Bendable Prototype

Not content with unveiling a 105-inch curved TV set at CES 2014, Samsung also showed off a concept television that the viewer can bend via remote control.

The Samsung Bendable television, a mere 85 inches in width, is only a prototype unit. Samsung won’t say whether it is planning to manufacture such a thing, or how much it might cost.

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The World’s Largest Curved UltraHD TV

Samsung unveiled its 105-inch curved UltraHD TV Monday, and it’s a stunner. Samsung is claiming this is “the world’s first and largest curved UltraHD TV.”

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The World’s Largest Curved UltraHD TV

For the 105-inch model, Samsung is using an ultra-wide ratio of 21×9 to take advantage of the size and curvature of the set. It has 11 million pixels and includes an Auto Depth Enhancer to bring pictures to life.

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The World’s Largest Curved UltraHD TV

The U9000 Series will be available in 78-inch, 65-inch and 55-inch variants. No prices have been released yet.

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Nanda Ramachandran, Vice President of Samsung Telecommunications America

The NotePro and TabPro tablets are aesthetically similar to the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition, replete with faux-leather backs and silver trim. Just 8mm thick, theses things are svelte and relatively light weight.

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The Galaxy NotePro and the Galaxy TabPro

The main difference between the Galaxy NotePro and the Galaxy TabPro is support for Samsung’s S-Pen. The NotePro supports the S-Pen and the TabPro does not. Otherwise, the devices share the same internals.

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Up Close with the Galaxy NotePro

The 12.2-inch models feature a 2560×1600 resolution display — which is the same as a 13-inch retina MacBook Pro. It also has 3GB of RAM, runs Android 4.4 and comes equipped with Bluetooth 4.0, USB 3.0, 8-megapixel rear cameras and 2-megapixel front cameras.

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