you want a freaking amazing looking tv it's gonna be OLED
same with like the phone that you're watching this on right now
probably also an OLED and it looks friggin amazing but for whatever reason
on laptops OLED screens just suck for whatever reason they give me
really bad headaches when i look at them and just like white backgrounds and text
not good samsung though thinks that they have fixed that so this guy right here
apparently has the same OLED screen as they have on the
s21 wait is it s21 s-21
ultra oh it's not the same screen it's using the same technology
wow this is one of the most engineering sample laptops that i have received in a
while normally they at least like half try they just threw this in a box look
at that great packing job guys there we go
wait this doesn't look right i asked for the 13-inch model um i think we got the
15. now before we open it up let's just do a
quick tour first of all this thing is super small especially
given it has full size HDMI right there along with
what two Thunderbolt fours and on the other side we have
full size usb type a and what looks like
a little sd card reader so like dell what are you
doing why does everyone else say like oh yeah we can't have full size
usb type a when like this thing's thinner than everyone else's laptops
build quality feels pretty good this bottom here is
very very plastic
the overall look like it's very plain it's just blue but it does have a real
premium look to it that's something that like i don't understand it's like samsung makes
these exceptional looking phones and many
other things that are good but until now their laptops have really
fallen behind everything else but let's open her up
i wasn't planning on starting it right yet but oh geez
uh so my initial impressions of the chassis are
not the greatest ever there's a big squish zone
right about here yeah that's a lot of deflection and i'm not pressing very
hard because it's on the map john west if
it's because it's on the map it's not this is 100 the laptop
also ah dang it samsung i asked them for the one with the touchscreen because
there's always a problem where so you have to have like your actual
screen and then a touch screen layer that goes over top of it some of the oleds that don't have touch
screens look way better on laptops than the ones that do because
it has this little like grid over top of it that isn't designed perfectly for OLED
screens well Windows says we're almost there which
means oh wow we're in just like we're into a segway
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video description i want to check out the keyboard first
just because it feels snappy
keyboard's a bit of a disappointment because whoever did
these switches did an exceptional job they feel great they're super snappy you
can probably even hear it like
awesome unfortunately again the chassis
is just a bit too flexy so getting a really good
consistent key feel is difficult when like over here you're getting like
a millimeter or so of deflection every time that you hit it anyway
wire actually here is the display so let's turn this up
apparently it's display HDR 500
certified yeah that look dave can we turn off the
light that's back there very glossy
display wow okay there we go so if you're going
to be using this in bright environments as we just found out don't buy it
it's terrible i've never noticed that there's a light back there before
when doing laptop stuff in the top down here
my hands are reflecting in the display and it's just
mirror-like that said if you plan on using this
in a dark room this looks exceptional this looks so freaking good
i shouldn't be surprised it has like something stupid like a million to one
contrast ratio and it's an OLED display but at the same
time damn actually where is our charger i just had
jono plug in the thing because it looks like that the brightness is
dropping when you're going to a full white display so like right now
it's clearly not giving me 500 nits of brightness
whereas it pops a lot more when we have a lot of
darker stuff on the display
nah just just wait we'll get to crab rave john just a second i need to talk
about the screen some more so so although you might be kind of
bummed out that on a whole white display you aren't getting the
full brightness searing your eyeballs i kind of like it because
in the past some OLED displays have just been too bright when you have
a full white background and it can kind of give you headaches so it is nice that
it dips a bit but at the same time don't use this outside ever the
uniformity looks pretty good that's another complaint that i had before
on OLED displays on laptops like you get kind of just this
grainy look over the whole thing when you have
one color this looks really good there is a tiny bit of
i guess you could call it oddness but it's not too bad
let's watch something okay i'll do crab rate for you jonna we'll we'll do the
speakers at the same time so this is only a 1920 by 1080p display
so that is one of the things that i am kind of bummed out i wish that it was 16 by 10 instead of 16x9 but like
this panel is awesome
oh my god the black levels look at that
speakers don't have much for balls though
okay so the speakers are like fine on
that but i'm actually getting the xps out here because its display is so freaking
good ips versus OLED i believe they're both
500 nits as well so
yeah there's way more saturation on the ips
i'll give you a quick little speaker test here as well
this is the samsung
it's not even a competition for display
it's a hard one i'm really surprised i figured that you'd have a noticeably
better black levels on the OLED but the ips that dell has here looks
exceptional i feel like that just general display tuning will be the
difference between which one of these looks better but i am very curious about what's
actually going on in the samsung OLED so that it doesn't
look like trash other oleds on laptops they didn't look good
this one looks exceptional let's have a little look shall we
now it's freaking nerd out time so grab your new microscope
which for one is way better than our old one but also the software is hot garbage
from like 2005 so we'll see how that goes so first of all we're going to look at
the xps which has an ips display we're at 90 times magnification and this
thing is hair trigger for focus oh my god
absolute piece of junk yeah we're seeing about 1.6 FPS whoever
made this software um am scope hello uh fix it please
but that's basically what it looks like and now
i want to take a look at my phone which has an OLED display
and i think that it uses the kind of cheatering method
oh no it isn't a cheatery one on old
school kind of like OLED stuff they would have it so that the blue sub
pixels were bigger than the red and the green because it
takes way more energy to create blue light because like
wavelengths that crap you burn out your blue pixels way faster
than the red and the greens so it makes sense that you would want them to be a little bit bigger
but it can be really hard on your eyes especially if you have like a slight
stigmatism in one of them but as you can see the red green and
blue pixels are all the same maybe you can't see
because this thing is having a lot of trouble okay that's as good as we're gonna get
on this but you get the picture whole bunch of little dots they're all
very uniform that is what we are looking for on the
samsung one here because if it has that similar kind of pixel arrangement
that means they're not cheating for this generation and i am very excited
to find out whoa this is
so weird what the
this is one of the weirdest subpixel arrangements that i've ever seen
i feel like that they kind of took the pixel size of a 4k display
yeah so you get the same number of red and green and blue pixels
but it's so weird because the blues are much bigger
and they're also sort of in a row so you
get alternating red green red green red green red green
and then there's rows of blue so they can be bigger and presumably
less bright in the past that's made
me feel terrible like it's given me headaches but for whatever reason
it doesn't with this one and it must just be because it's a 1080p resolution
4k i don't know but i like this one and judging by the
subpixels i don't think i should
wait what so do you remember how i was complaining
about the chassis stiffness you can click the trackpad by pushing
the bottom oh samsung come on
but the good news is is that samsung's displays go into
everything like every single OLED screen in a laptop that's on the market right
now samsung makes it this right here despite
me not really wanting to recommend this laptop it's not terrible it's pretty light
what's the price on it jono this one right here has uh let's see
oh see i can't click the touchpad when i'm holding in my hand
because it's already clicked can you take the touchpad by just pressing down
on the body yeah i can click the touchpad by just
pushing here i don't have a price so we don't have a price on this yeah if we have a price
it'll be right here if it's like not all that expensive then
sure go for it i guess oh it's so frustrating okay
let's have a little chat samsung this laptop is infuriating because you got so
much of it right this trackpad the size is great the feel
is awesome it's really good whoever designed this trackpad give them a raise
same with the keyboard this keyboard is awesome the click feel
exceptional overall besides it being french
really like it this display it's one of the best that i've ever seen
in a laptop this chassis
it's terrible i didn't expect it to make that sound but it really
it really brings it home just
invest in like even just a good stamped aluminum chassis
and i would daily drive this laptop because otherwise
it is freaking awesome this is in many ways one of the best laptops that i've
looked at in a really long time it is so light this display is awesome
i would daily drive it but i can't you can't use the track pad when you're
holding it because it's clicked that's where they're at um i don't know
if i went over the specs it has an i7 16 gigabytes of RAM
uh oh this one right here actually has 5g which is freaking awesome another
thing you did great oh and jono just told me that it's 68 watt her battery
with this processor that is going to give you so much battery life
it's probably like 12 hours plus
then again it's an OLED display but it's 1080p on a display i don't know there's
a whole bunch of different things but you're gonna have good battery life with this thing samsung you are
so close to creating the best laptop on the market with this thing right here
it's like everything that the lg gram should be minus
the good feeling of the lg gram i hope
that you enjoyed this um i want to break up the microscope more and am scope if you saw this fix your
webcam i will use this all the time yeah that's it have a great all day get
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