For many years now, people have been debating and exploring whether an iPad
can replace your laptop or substitute for it or something. Everyone was going
back and forth. Oh, they have these new features. They have mouse support. They have all this new stuff. Meanwhile,
Samsung's over here with their Galaxy Tabs. And people are using these as
their laptops and desktops through Samsung Dex the entire time. And their
latest flagship tablet, the Tab S11
Ultra, is a great example of that
future. It's already here. Why are we Why are we talking so much? Let's get to
work. Now, this channel is supposed to be kind of like unboxing Plus, but this
thing is already out of the box because Samsung sent it to us without a box,
which is actually fine because the main thing that I'm interested in with this
tablet is that affforementioned desktop
like functionality. I mean, look, tablets are cool. People use them for
drawing and all that stuff. I don't draw. I've just been interested in
tablets and iPads because of that. Steve Jobs or whoever that was that said that.
I think it was Johnny IV actually talking about a single single piece of
glass that does all your computing. So, we're going to take a look at this thing
today. Is it good? Is it impressive? Is it a laptop? I'd say it basically is.
But first, let's take a look at the external design. It is nearly the exact
same size as its predecessor, the S10, but it is a little bit thinner at 5.1
millimeters thick versus 5.4, which actually matches the iPad Pro M5's
thickness. Um, so we're really on a battle of the flagship tablets here. On
the back, we have a 13 and 8 megapixel camera here next to a flash. Pogo pins
on the back now instead of before I believe they were on the bottom. antenna
bands on the side. On the bottom, instead of those pogo pins, we have two
little mounting points that will attach to the keyboard attachment, which we
will bring out in a second. On the side that uh previously may have been called
the bottom, but we're going to call like the right side now, is a USBC port and
two speakers matched by two speakers on the opposite
side as well, along with a mic. And then on this side that I'm going to call the
top. I I do not know. We have volume
rocker over here, power button, two more mics, and a micro SD card slot that will
accept SD cards up to 2 terb micro SD
cards. Now, the new iPad, the M5 iPad
Pro, allows you to buy an option with 2
TB of storage inside. This one only goes
up to 1 TB. On the front, we have a 12 megapixel camera and of course the
massive 14.6 inch display. It's the same
resolution as its predecessor, 2960x848,
aka WQXGA plus, but you already knew that. And as
you can see when I was angling this up, there's like an anti-reflective
coating on this, sort of like what you might see on glasses. It's not matte.
It's very much reflecting things uh clearly, but it is kind of darkening it
and tinting it a little bit so it's not so uh offensive. The last thing to
really mention about the external, you know, hardware design is the fact that
the previous model, the S10, allowed you to charge and attach magnetically the
previous model S Pen to the back of the tablet. The new S Pen attaches to the
top of the tablet here and doesn't need to charge. It's just there's no
Bluetooth functionality, so you also can't use it as a remote apparently,
which you know,
some [music] people will be more upset about that than others. But we do have
another accessory that I'm way more excited about because I don't draw, but
I do type. We have the official keyboard attachment for this called the Book
Cover Keyboard Slim. Let's put it in there. So, that goes right there. It's a
nice strong magnetic attachment. Pogo
pins. Oh, that little thing flips up. I didn't see that before. Look at that. Do
you see that? Oo, that's satisfying. And then that
comes off like that. And boom. Okay. Apple made an attachment that lets you,
you know, adjust the angle that your
their tablet is is at. And Samsung is like, "Oh, we got Dex. We got our
desktop experience." But we're still giving you a keyboard folio that doesn't
you can't adjust it all. That said, I
kind of clicked on the keys earlier and it feels pretty good so far. There's a
very very distinct tactile bump and there's even like a decent amount of
travel for like a tablet cover. We'll see. I'll maybe try typing things once
we actually get into using the software, which I will do right now, right after
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they've changed this so that before you
could use Dex just with your tablet, cuz these are huge. This is like a nearly
15-in laptop. So, people are like, "Ah, yeah,
I want to use this like a desktop or a laptop." So, I'm gonna hit the function
and dex keys up here, and [music] I'm
going to go into Dex mode. Except, uhoh,
this isn't Dex mode, guys. This is Android 16's new desktop mode, which is
great that that's there. I've been we many people. I mean, you could ask
anybody on the street. Everyone's been asking for an Android official desktop
mode on Android, and it's here. I mean, if you use Android tablets, uh you might
know this already that it's that it's here and you can open stuff up in in
Windows and move them around and like resize them and uh you know, snap them
to one side. Boom. Yeah, you can do that. And on the other side, Samsung Dex
had a number of features that this doesn't have, like window tiling to
quadrants. You can only, as far as I can tell so far, you can only snap to one
side or another. I wait, did I exit desktop mode somehow? So, the Dex
dieards, God bless them, are upset about
this. You can still use Dex if you connect to
an external monitor, which I'm going to do now. Now, you might be wondering,
Riley, why do you care about it's a tablet? Why don't why are you trying to
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
inside these tablets keep getting so dang powerful. Okay, the Tab S11 Ultra
has a MediaTek Demenity 9400 Plus, which
was their flagship uh chip at the time of building this. Now, some smartphones
are starting to come out with the Demenity 9500, but it's a powerful chip.
Samsung says that uh compared to the Tab S10, the Tab S11 Ultra, it's getting you
like 25ish% uh increase in performance for CPU and
GPU. and then 33% increase for the NPU.
Now, it still pales in comparison to the iPad Pro M5, the brand new flagship iPad
from Apple, which according to our Labs tests, uh, you know, just smoked [music]
this thing. But, you know, it's got 12 gigs of RAM. Uh, with the 256 gig and
512 gig versions, you can get 16 gigs of RAM if you get the 1 TB version. So,
it's like there's some horsepower here. There's some there's horsepower to be
had. So yes, I'm interested in how this
thing performs if you know you you plug it in and you use it as a as a desktop
because like especially if the main use case that you're using a computer for is
not like he hardcore gaming video
editing kind of stuff and it's like you know it's your work PC you need to use a
browser you need to use Google Docs. Belle brings up Chromebooks
and it's like, yeah, Chromebooks are a lot cheaper, but they also, you know,
they do leave some performance to be desired. Remember when I was talking about Dex? This is apparently Dex. It
looks the same as the Android desktop mode except for
this thing down here in the corner. You got little uh Windows style, you know,
clock and [music] and notifications and quick settings and stuff. You can turn
volume up. You can change your media output. You can check notifications,
take a screenshot. So, that's down there. Um, I will say the last time I
tried Dex on a Samsung tablet, I was like, there is like some latency going
on when you connect a wireless uh mouse like I have here. See, I would not want
to use this. This doesn't have the Windows feature where you wiggle a
window and then everything else minimizes. Unusable. This is funny cuz
like Samsung has had Dex for years. As I've said, they clearly like are
invested in maintaining the idea that people should use tablets
as in in desktop mode. It seems like Dex
is like we're going to activate this when you connect to an external monitor
and this is going to be like a secondary display. You can use that tablet display
if you really want to, but it's going to be all about this. But if I disconnect
that, we're still in desktop mode on this and my alt tab. Oh, I have no
running apps. That doesn't seem right because I had a bunch of running apps
before. So, it seems that when you connect an external monitor, they're
like, you're using this external monitor. We're It's like, forget about
this for the most part. You can have multiple desktops like Windows or Mac
OS, which is like a [music] step forward. But if I want to access those
full screen tablet apps that I had open over here, I can only have the the app
switcher open on one monitor at the same time. This is great. I I just love
everything [laughter] about this. This is just making me want to go back to
iPad OS and kind of like, you know, deal
with how they're doing things because like look, I can minimize this. It's
down here, but I know that I have other apps that are open like YouTube. I can
put it into windowed mode and then minimize it. Oh, and now it's
minimized over there, but I have another app that's like open here. Like on
Windows, if you have an app open, you can see that it's open on the bottom
taskbar. And the same thing with macOS. Little things like this. Anyways, I'm
going on a bit of a tangent. The point is, Google, I love that you're bringing
more desktop features and stuff to these
devices. Can we make them a bit more a bit more desktopy, a little bit more
along that line? I mean, Google has said that Chrome OS is transitioning to
basically be Android. Listen, we already have Android laptops. It's right here.
But it's halfbaked, so we need to bake
it all the way. Now I feel like I'm in a desktop. It looks more like a Mac than
Windows. But that's okay. I don't know. This was the first time that I saw this
and I was like, this just feels like using Windows, you know? I have I have a
connected display. I have my main display and you can move this around to
like position it where you want. If you have a Galaxy Tab S10, you probably want
to wait a little bit more before you upgrade. So, we thought the more
pertinent comparison was with the iPad Pro M5 that we just tested. And there's
a couple of interesting points that we came across on our stress test. The Tab
S11 scored quite a bit lower than the iPad Pro M5, but it also continued to
dip as we did more runs, whereas the iPad Pro uh kind of stayed it hit a
certain level and then kind of stayed there throughout all uh you know,
subsequent runs. So, the Tab S11 Ultra
doesn't have whatever special uh thermal juice the iPad Pro M5 has. That's what
they use, by the way. Uh tech tip, thermal juice. [music] In our luminance
tests, this thing was able to hit Samsung's claimed peak of 1600ish
[music] nits. And that actually it kept up with the iPad Pro M5 there. So, good job,
buddy. Unfortunately, despite having a larger battery than the M5 [music] iPad
Pro and claiming that it can last for up to 23 hours of video playback, it only
lasted 13 hours and 52 minutes.
Meanwhile, the iPad Pro claimed it would last 10 hours and actually [music]
lasted nearly 16 hours. So, uh, big
kudos to Apple for not overselling it in
at least that department. To be fair, their battery test may be different from
ours, but they said video playback, and our video playback test is a little bit
more intensive, but that's a huge difference. After fully discharging the
battery, to get back to 100% took an hour and 48 minutes, which isn't that
bad for an 11,600 mAh battery. And it
did get to 50% in just 40 minutes with
our standard 45 watt charger that we use. And then it got to 90% in 72
minutes, which is so just really that last that last stretch it struggles, but
that's typical. We will load up Crab Rave.
[music] Max it out. Max it out.
[music] Now, you know, I love when tablets and laptops have the courage put
in some meaty low end. I feel like this this got a little bit too big for its
own britches here because there's a there's so much bass that it kind of is
like it it feels like [laughter]
it feels like there's a giant like bass guitar in there and they're like
blanging on it's like blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah speaker's
pretty good. I would say that like
back at unreasonable level turn on motion photo now so you can edit
expressions later with best face and gallery. That's okay. At first, it kind
of shocked me because I thought it was like very sharp, but now it doesn't seem
that sharp. Flip it around.
Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. That does seem pretty
jelloy.
Lots of stabilization though. This is the 13 megapixel camera.
>> Oh, that seems that seems better actually.
It's hard to say because it's closer up, but that the the jelless definitely
seems better on the megapixel than the 8 megapixel. I don't know. And that's the
uh that's the 8 megap. Okay, you got your samples. I mean, overall, it's a
tablet camera. Can't complain much. Now,
with all that said, and with all my jabbering about this being a desktop
replacement, what are we looking at in terms of price? This thing starts at
$1199 for the [music] 256 gig version with 12
gigs of RAM. And that's laptop price, baby. Even if the processor is up to the
task of doing more intensive stuff, if
you want to use it as a desktop, I mean, honestly, you probably want to just
connect like get a a different Bluetooth keyboard for it and use, you know,
existing your existing Bluetooth mouse or whatever because this [music]
keyboard attachment, the book cover
keyboard slim is $210.
It's $1,200. It starts at $1,200. the tablet and then $210 more dollars for
the keyboard. I want like I want to, you know, I but I don't know. I guess the
argument there is that instead of a laptop, you're buying this and you can
use it as a laptop. It's got decks. It's got all those things. Things are getting
better and better, but I want to see them get even better than that. I don't
know what this means, but doing this video and playing around with this thing
has just made me want to try using an [music] iPad. But to be fair to the many
many people out there who are very well
represented in comment sections on videos like these, people have been
using Samsung Dex for many years to be productive and as their, you know,
sometimes their main desktop machine and
that's great. It's there. It's usable if you need it. We don't, we have Android
laptops already. Um, but if we are going to say that Android laptops are a thing
and we want those, let's make them better. Okay, let's let's do better. And
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