WEBVTT 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:09.040 For many years now, people have been debating and exploring whether an iPad 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:12.880 can replace your laptop or substitute for it or something. Everyone was going 00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:18.080 back and forth. Oh, they have these new features. They have mouse support. They have all this new stuff. Meanwhile, 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:23.039 Samsung's over here with their Galaxy Tabs. And people are using these as 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:29.519 their laptops and desktops through Samsung Dex the entire time. And their 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:32.559 latest flagship tablet, the Tab S11 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:34.399 Ultra, is a great example of that 00:00:32.559 --> 00:00:38.480 future. It's already here. Why are we Why are we talking so much? Let's get to 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:42.399 work. Now, this channel is supposed to be kind of like unboxing Plus, but this 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:46.640 thing is already out of the box because Samsung sent it to us without a box, 00:00:44.879 --> 00:00:52.879 which is actually fine because the main thing that I'm interested in with this 00:00:48.559 --> 00:00:54.879 tablet is that affforementioned desktop 00:00:52.879 --> 00:01:00.000 like functionality. I mean, look, tablets are cool. People use them for 00:00:57.680 --> 00:01:05.119 drawing and all that stuff. I don't draw. I've just been interested in 00:01:02.559 --> 00:01:08.400 tablets and iPads because of that. Steve Jobs or whoever that was that said that. 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:12.400 I think it was Johnny IV actually talking about a single single piece of 00:01:10.479 --> 00:01:16.640 glass that does all your computing. So, we're going to take a look at this thing 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:20.560 today. Is it good? Is it impressive? Is it a laptop? I'd say it basically is. 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:26.240 But first, let's take a look at the external design. It is nearly the exact 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:31.280 same size as its predecessor, the S10, but it is a little bit thinner at 5.1 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:36.799 millimeters thick versus 5.4, which actually matches the iPad Pro M5's 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:41.360 thickness. Um, so we're really on a battle of the flagship tablets here. On 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:46.799 the back, we have a 13 and 8 megapixel camera here next to a flash. Pogo pins 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:50.640 on the back now instead of before I believe they were on the bottom. antenna 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:54.000 bands on the side. On the bottom, instead of those pogo pins, we have two 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:59.119 little mounting points that will attach to the keyboard attachment, which we 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:03.360 will bring out in a second. On the side that uh previously may have been called 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:09.360 the bottom, but we're going to call like the right side now, is a USBC port and 00:02:06.479 --> 00:02:13.920 two speakers matched by two speakers on the opposite 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:19.360 side as well, along with a mic. And then on this side that I'm going to call the 00:02:15.920 --> 00:02:21.680 top. I I do not know. We have volume 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:29.599 rocker over here, power button, two more mics, and a micro SD card slot that will 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:32.800 accept SD cards up to 2 terb micro SD 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:36.560 cards. Now, the new iPad, the M5 iPad 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:40.000 Pro, allows you to buy an option with 2 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:42.560 TB of storage inside. This one only goes 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:49.519 up to 1 TB. On the front, we have a 12 megapixel camera and of course the 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:53.680 massive 14.6 inch display. It's the same 00:02:49.519 --> 00:02:56.480 resolution as its predecessor, 2960x848, 00:02:53.680 --> 00:03:00.080 aka WQXGA plus, but you already knew that. And as 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:04.239 you can see when I was angling this up, there's like an anti-reflective 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:09.120 coating on this, sort of like what you might see on glasses. It's not matte. 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:14.400 It's very much reflecting things uh clearly, but it is kind of darkening it 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:19.120 and tinting it a little bit so it's not so uh offensive. The last thing to 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:24.000 really mention about the external, you know, hardware design is the fact that 00:03:21.760 --> 00:03:31.360 the previous model, the S10, allowed you to charge and attach magnetically the 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:36.959 previous model S Pen to the back of the tablet. The new S Pen attaches to the 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:41.040 top of the tablet here and doesn't need to charge. It's just there's no 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:46.480 Bluetooth functionality, so you also can't use it as a remote apparently, 00:03:42.799 --> 00:03:47.680 which you know, 00:03:46.480 --> 00:03:51.280 some [music] people will be more upset about that than others. But we do have 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:55.599 another accessory that I'm way more excited about because I don't draw, but 00:03:53.040 --> 00:03:59.519 I do type. We have the official keyboard attachment for this called the Book 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:07.120 Cover Keyboard Slim. Let's put it in there. So, that goes right there. It's a 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:09.599 nice strong magnetic attachment. Pogo 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:13.280 pins. Oh, that little thing flips up. I didn't see that before. Look at that. Do 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:17.680 you see that? Oo, that's satisfying. And then that 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:23.520 comes off like that. And boom. Okay. Apple made an attachment that lets you, 00:04:20.479 --> 00:04:26.080 you know, adjust the angle that your 00:04:23.520 --> 00:04:30.000 their tablet is is at. And Samsung is like, "Oh, we got Dex. We got our 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:36.400 desktop experience." But we're still giving you a keyboard folio that doesn't 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:39.280 you can't adjust it all. That said, I 00:04:36.400 --> 00:04:43.199 kind of clicked on the keys earlier and it feels pretty good so far. There's a 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:47.199 very very distinct tactile bump and there's even like a decent amount of 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:51.919 travel for like a tablet cover. We'll see. I'll maybe try typing things once 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:57.120 we actually get into using the software, which I will do right now, right after 00:04:54.880 --> 00:05:01.199 our sponsor. Thanks to Secret Lab for sponsoring this video. 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This is like a nearly 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:46.800 15-in laptop. So, people are like, "Ah, yeah, 00:05:45.280 --> 00:05:52.960 I want to use this like a desktop or a laptop." So, I'm gonna hit the function 00:05:49.840 --> 00:05:56.560 and dex keys up here, and [music] I'm 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:59.360 going to go into Dex mode. Except, uhoh, 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:04.720 this isn't Dex mode, guys. This is Android 16's new desktop mode, which is 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:08.560 great that that's there. I've been we many people. I mean, you could ask 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:13.600 anybody on the street. Everyone's been asking for an Android official desktop 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:17.840 mode on Android, and it's here. I mean, if you use Android tablets, uh you might 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:22.080 know this already that it's that it's here and you can open stuff up in in 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:28.080 Windows and move them around and like resize them and uh you know, snap them 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:32.800 to one side. Boom. Yeah, you can do that. And on the other side, Samsung Dex 00:06:30.880 --> 00:06:38.080 had a number of features that this doesn't have, like window tiling to 00:06:35.440 --> 00:06:43.199 quadrants. You can only, as far as I can tell so far, you can only snap to one 00:06:40.960 --> 00:06:48.639 side or another. I wait, did I exit desktop mode somehow? So, the Dex 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:50.400 dieards, God bless them, are upset about 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:55.440 this. You can still use Dex if you connect to 00:06:53.440 --> 00:07:00.240 an external monitor, which I'm going to do now. Now, you might be wondering, 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:03.759 Riley, why do you care about it's a tablet? Why don't why are you trying to 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:08.319 use it as a desktop or a laptop so bad? Why why is that the only thing you care about? Well, it's because these chips 00:07:06.479 --> 00:07:16.479 inside these tablets keep getting so dang powerful. Okay, the Tab S11 Ultra 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:19.440 has a MediaTek Demenity 9400 Plus, which 00:07:16.479 --> 00:07:22.880 was their flagship uh chip at the time of building this. Now, some smartphones 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:28.720 are starting to come out with the Demenity 9500, but it's a powerful chip. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:35.039 Samsung says that uh compared to the Tab S10, the Tab S11 Ultra, it's getting you 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:41.120 like 25ish% uh increase in performance for CPU and 00:07:37.039 --> 00:07:43.599 GPU. and then 33% increase for the NPU. 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:49.840 Now, it still pales in comparison to the iPad Pro M5, the brand new flagship iPad 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:54.560 from Apple, which according to our Labs tests, uh, you know, just smoked [music] 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:59.680 this thing. But, you know, it's got 12 gigs of RAM. Uh, with the 256 gig and 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:03.680 512 gig versions, you can get 16 gigs of RAM if you get the 1 TB version. So, 00:08:01.840 --> 00:08:09.039 it's like there's some horsepower here. There's some there's horsepower to be 00:08:05.039 --> 00:08:11.360 had. So yes, I'm interested in how this 00:08:09.039 --> 00:08:15.520 thing performs if you know you you plug it in and you use it as a as a desktop 00:08:13.039 --> 00:08:22.080 because like especially if the main use case that you're using a computer for is 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:24.639 not like he hardcore gaming video 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:28.879 editing kind of stuff and it's like you know it's your work PC you need to use a 00:08:26.479 --> 00:08:33.519 browser you need to use Google Docs. Belle brings up Chromebooks 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:36.959 and it's like, yeah, Chromebooks are a lot cheaper, but they also, you know, 00:08:35.599 --> 00:08:44.000 they do leave some performance to be desired. Remember when I was talking about Dex? This is apparently Dex. It 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:48.480 looks the same as the Android desktop mode except for 00:08:46.880 --> 00:08:53.760 this thing down here in the corner. You got little uh Windows style, you know, 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:58.320 clock and [music] and notifications and quick settings and stuff. You can turn 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:03.200 volume up. You can change your media output. You can check notifications, 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:09.360 take a screenshot. So, that's down there. Um, I will say the last time I 00:09:06.880 --> 00:09:13.839 tried Dex on a Samsung tablet, I was like, there is like some latency going 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:17.519 on when you connect a wireless uh mouse like I have here. See, I would not want 00:09:15.680 --> 00:09:20.240 to use this. This doesn't have the Windows feature where you wiggle a 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:26.160 window and then everything else minimizes. Unusable. This is funny cuz 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:31.600 like Samsung has had Dex for years. As I've said, they clearly like are 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:37.839 invested in maintaining the idea that people should use tablets 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:39.760 as in in desktop mode. It seems like Dex 00:09:37.839 --> 00:09:44.399 is like we're going to activate this when you connect to an external monitor 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:48.640 and this is going to be like a secondary display. You can use that tablet display 00:09:46.640 --> 00:09:53.200 if you really want to, but it's going to be all about this. But if I disconnect 00:09:51.040 --> 00:09:59.519 that, we're still in desktop mode on this and my alt tab. Oh, I have no 00:09:57.839 --> 00:10:03.440 running apps. That doesn't seem right because I had a bunch of running apps 00:10:00.880 --> 00:10:06.560 before. So, it seems that when you connect an external monitor, they're 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:10.480 like, you're using this external monitor. We're It's like, forget about 00:10:08.560 --> 00:10:14.560 this for the most part. You can have multiple desktops like Windows or Mac 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:20.240 OS, which is like a [music] step forward. But if I want to access those 00:10:17.920 --> 00:10:25.600 full screen tablet apps that I had open over here, I can only have the the app 00:10:22.640 --> 00:10:29.920 switcher open on one monitor at the same time. This is great. I I just love 00:10:28.640 --> 00:10:36.160 everything [laughter] about this. This is just making me want to go back to 00:10:32.959 --> 00:10:37.440 iPad OS and kind of like, you know, deal 00:10:36.160 --> 00:10:43.200 with how they're doing things because like look, I can minimize this. It's 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:49.200 down here, but I know that I have other apps that are open like YouTube. I can 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:52.800 put it into windowed mode and then minimize it. Oh, and now it's 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:56.160 minimized over there, but I have another app that's like open here. Like on 00:10:54.640 --> 00:11:00.240 Windows, if you have an app open, you can see that it's open on the bottom 00:10:57.839 --> 00:11:03.760 taskbar. And the same thing with macOS. Little things like this. Anyways, I'm 00:11:02.079 --> 00:11:11.120 going on a bit of a tangent. The point is, Google, I love that you're bringing 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:13.920 more desktop features and stuff to these 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:17.760 devices. Can we make them a bit more a bit more desktopy, a little bit more 00:11:15.680 --> 00:11:23.120 along that line? I mean, Google has said that Chrome OS is transitioning to 00:11:21.040 --> 00:11:29.600 basically be Android. Listen, we already have Android laptops. It's right here. 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:32.000 But it's halfbaked, so we need to bake 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:35.680 it all the way. Now I feel like I'm in a desktop. It looks more like a Mac than 00:11:33.920 --> 00:11:39.920 Windows. But that's okay. I don't know. This was the first time that I saw this 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:43.200 and I was like, this just feels like using Windows, you know? I have I have a 00:11:41.839 --> 00:11:47.600 connected display. I have my main display and you can move this around to 00:11:45.760 --> 00:11:50.959 like position it where you want. If you have a Galaxy Tab S10, you probably want 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:54.880 to wait a little bit more before you upgrade. So, we thought the more 00:11:53.040 --> 00:11:59.279 pertinent comparison was with the iPad Pro M5 that we just tested. And there's 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:04.320 a couple of interesting points that we came across on our stress test. The Tab 00:12:01.920 --> 00:12:11.040 S11 scored quite a bit lower than the iPad Pro M5, but it also continued to 00:12:08.160 --> 00:12:15.360 dip as we did more runs, whereas the iPad Pro uh kind of stayed it hit a 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:20.720 certain level and then kind of stayed there throughout all uh you know, 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:22.959 subsequent runs. So, the Tab S11 Ultra 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:27.200 doesn't have whatever special uh thermal juice the iPad Pro M5 has. That's what 00:12:25.040 --> 00:12:30.959 they use, by the way. Uh tech tip, thermal juice. [music] In our luminance 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:34.480 tests, this thing was able to hit Samsung's claimed peak of 1600ish 00:12:33.913 --> 00:12:41.760 [music] nits. And that actually it kept up with the iPad Pro M5 there. So, good job, 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:46.959 buddy. Unfortunately, despite having a larger battery than the M5 [music] iPad 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:53.519 Pro and claiming that it can last for up to 23 hours of video playback, it only 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:55.760 lasted 13 hours and 52 minutes. 00:12:53.519 --> 00:13:01.360 Meanwhile, the iPad Pro claimed it would last 10 hours and actually [music] 00:12:57.680 --> 00:13:04.720 lasted nearly 16 hours. So, uh, big 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:07.200 kudos to Apple for not overselling it in 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:10.959 at least that department. To be fair, their battery test may be different from 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:14.320 ours, but they said video playback, and our video playback test is a little bit 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:17.839 more intensive, but that's a huge difference. After fully discharging the 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:24.000 battery, to get back to 100% took an hour and 48 minutes, which isn't that 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:27.120 bad for an 11,600 mAh battery. And it 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:29.200 did get to 50% in just 40 minutes with 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:34.160 our standard 45 watt charger that we use. And then it got to 90% in 72 00:13:31.680 --> 00:13:37.839 minutes, which is so just really that last that last stretch it struggles, but 00:13:36.079 --> 00:13:40.839 that's typical. We will load up Crab Rave. 00:13:45.964 --> 00:13:53.120 [music] Max it out. Max it out. 00:13:51.204 --> 00:13:58.240 [music] Now, you know, I love when tablets and laptops have the courage put 00:13:55.680 --> 00:14:01.839 in some meaty low end. I feel like this this got a little bit too big for its 00:13:59.839 --> 00:14:07.120 own britches here because there's a there's so much bass that it kind of is 00:14:03.839 --> 00:14:09.600 like it it feels like [laughter] 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:12.720 it feels like there's a giant like bass guitar in there and they're like 00:14:11.199 --> 00:14:18.079 blanging on it's like blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah speaker's 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:20.480 pretty good. I would say that like 00:14:18.079 --> 00:14:24.480 back at unreasonable level turn on motion photo now so you can edit 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:28.880 expressions later with best face and gallery. That's okay. At first, it kind 00:14:26.800 --> 00:14:35.720 of shocked me because I thought it was like very sharp, but now it doesn't seem 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:35.720 that sharp. Flip it around. 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:42.760 Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. That does seem pretty 00:14:39.760 --> 00:14:42.760 jelloy. 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:52.480 Lots of stabilization though. This is the 13 megapixel camera. 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:57.040 >> Oh, that seems that seems better actually. 00:14:55.440 --> 00:15:01.839 It's hard to say because it's closer up, but that the the jelless definitely 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:06.240 seems better on the megapixel than the 8 megapixel. I don't know. And that's the 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:11.279 uh that's the 8 megap. Okay, you got your samples. I mean, overall, it's a 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:12.880 tablet camera. Can't complain much. Now, 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:16.720 with all that said, and with all my jabbering about this being a desktop 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:20.560 replacement, what are we looking at in terms of price? This thing starts at 00:15:19.040 --> 00:15:25.360 $1199 for the [music] 256 gig version with 12 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:32.720 gigs of RAM. And that's laptop price, baby. Even if the processor is up to the 00:15:28.880 --> 00:15:34.800 task of doing more intensive stuff, if 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:38.560 you want to use it as a desktop, I mean, honestly, you probably want to just 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:43.120 connect like get a a different Bluetooth keyboard for it and use, you know, 00:15:40.880 --> 00:15:48.000 existing your existing Bluetooth mouse or whatever because this [music] 00:15:44.959 --> 00:15:53.120 keyboard attachment, the book cover 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:55.920 keyboard slim is $210. 00:15:53.120 --> 00:16:01.839 It's $1,200. It starts at $1,200. the tablet and then $210 more dollars for 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:06.560 the keyboard. I want like I want to, you know, I but I don't know. I guess the 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:11.279 argument there is that instead of a laptop, you're buying this and you can 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:15.680 use it as a laptop. It's got decks. It's got all those things. Things are getting 00:16:12.800 --> 00:16:18.800 better and better, but I want to see them get even better than that. I don't 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:23.821 know what this means, but doing this video and playing around with this thing 00:16:20.880 --> 00:16:29.839 has just made me want to try using an [music] iPad. But to be fair to the many 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:31.680 many people out there who are very well 00:16:29.839 --> 00:16:36.320 represented in comment sections on videos like these, people have been 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:41.360 using Samsung Dex for many years to be productive and as their, you know, 00:16:38.160 --> 00:16:43.519 sometimes their main desktop machine and 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:49.600 that's great. It's there. It's usable if you need it. We don't, we have Android 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:53.839 laptops already. Um, but if we are going to say that Android laptops are a thing 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:58.240 and we want those, let's make them better. Okay, let's let's do better. And 00:16:56.399 --> 00:17:02.959 you can subscribe to ShortCircuit. I know you can. And if you like this 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:08.000 video, go watch the iPad Pro M5 one. We talked about it enough in this one. 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:08.000 Might as well.