on paper this Samsung Galaxy book looks
absolutely exceptional the only thing is
though knowing Samsung they it up somehow let's figure out what it is open
the computer press the power button that's what you need to do warranty
don't care about that here we have 140 W
charger which is all being delivered over USB
type-c damn it that's not what I wanted to do oh
there's the charging cable how long's the cable it is 6 ft one thing that is
pretty concerning while we have it flipped over like this is I don't see any screws so I suspect getting into
this will be a pain all right so we've got the Samsung Galaxy Ultra Book 4
right here and my first impressions are that it's quite well built on the right
we have a micro SD card reader USB type a headphone microphone combo Jack on the
left hand side two Thunderbolt 4S and HDMI 2.1 I do really like how the
Samsung logo is all rainbowy it's like RGB but without the power in the past my
experience with Samsung laptops has been that they have incredible screens and
the rest kind of just sucks but right
here this feels vastly improved we have an all metal chassis pushing on it it
feels really great damn before we go any
further there's one thing that I really need to do this sticker is super crooked
I'm just going to get rid of it oh back
to oh I this is was a mistake I have
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their noox chip is actually pretty cool is its own dedicated chip that secures
all of your sensitive stuff in its own little area for enhanced not getting
hacked I don't know why but this touch pad just like makes me feel like I'm
drunk like they have some really brutal Mouse acceleration on it and I just keep
on missing the stuff that I'm going for like let's go for the X at the top right
missed it completely missed it not even close it feels really jelly and you can
kind of see that it seems like the pulling rate is
also really low I'm almost certain that's a touchpad problem and nothing to
do with like the display one sec yeah that's awesome that is
absolutely perfect you can see like I'm moving it across here it looks really
really nice on this display one other thing that I just noticed is that you
don't actually get the full display if you look we have rounded corners on the
edges it's something that they did on the uh surfaces and I guess they're
doing here as well oh my God M's acceleration anyway anyway anyway specs
specs the specs are good in here we have an Intel Core Ultra 7
155h that is 16 cores 22 threads and
these things are really really fast also we have 16 GB of RAM which it says row
of chips so they are presumably soldered down actually they're definitely soldered down cuz they're running at
7467 megat transfers per second so you
do get really fast RAM at least even though you can't upgrade it for the SSD
we have a 512 GB nbme SSD from Samsung
love to see it you guys make excellent drives we also have arc graphics an npu
with Intel's AI boost and to top it off an RTX 4050 which means even though this
right here won't be a super duper gaming laptop it'll probably be a pretty darn
good one and also for Content creation like video editing photo editing all of
that stuff it is going to be a beast this 4050 also also goes up to 80 wats
tgp which is very healthy for a 40/50 you'll be getting most of the
performance out of it a it's a touchcreen we''ve got OLED we've got
touch we've got oh my God this thing looks good this also has a dynamic
refresh rate so it's able to go from 48 to 120 HZ based on battery saving stuff
but do note that it's not gsync so it's not going to be doing that for like
frame pacing and games it's more so just for power savings the resolution also is
a little bit more than quad h D so 2880
by 1800p and hot damn this thing is
excellent the brightness on this panel is fantastic in SDR you get 400 nits and
in HDR 600 nits and for both of those that is full screen brightness so you
don't have anything where like a little tiny window gets super bright and then
when it gets blown up and it all kind of looks like junk no this just no matter
what you get that full brightness out of those OLED pixels and look at that pitch
black of course this is a Samsung device so out of the box everything is pretty
saturated on display but it has heaps of color profiles so if you just clamp it
down to srgb we have an average Delta e of 1.2 which is absolutely fantastic we
expect less than two if you want to do professional color work so you can do
that on here also in HDR the content on
this looks fantastic and we measured an average Delta e of 13.4 which is really
quite good cuz HDR you are getting both the color and the brightness to match
which is a bit more difficult and this display does a fantastic job of that
just look at this for a second Andrew like like just the background these
little details right here one thing I did miss before cuz we
just weren't connected to the internet is that we have a Wi-Fi 6 e card in here
which is quite good but I do wish that I had Wi-Fi 7 given that this is a very
premium device is the keyboard good though there is one thing that's kind of
annoying about this we have an international version of the keyboard
instead of like a North American one so we don't have a big shift on the left
hand side but oh well I'll deal with
that I don't know how I feel about this keyboard if I'm honest objectively
speaking it seems pretty good like if we look here if I push on the side of the
key it actuates the entire key before I can get much dipping also key to key the
force is really quite good and the chassis is nice and stiff so it's really
nice and consistent there is I think it's a little bit stiffer on the right
hand side compared to the left but it's not too bad that said though the
actuation profile is super weird like there's no pre-act tuation if that makes
sense like you press on the key nothing happens then it goes I think part of it
is that now that I've touched it more there is definitely some inconsistencies
in the switching Force like some of them take a little bit more Force than others
but mostly it's just kind of a strange proile like it I don't know you feel
like you're really thonking you're you're thonking the keyboard overall
though I'm going to give it an A minus I think it's a solid keyboard you can you
can type on it I got up to almost full speed there actually I would say that I
got up to full speed and I think that I would get used to it in an hour or so
and just be ripping on it performance- wise here are the results from the Labs
and overall I would say it did quite well given that it's an Ultra Book and
it's not particularly large but at the
same time it got AB absolutely smashed by the ASUS G14 which is both smaller
and cheaper so if you're looking for actual just raw performance this is not
what you want in here we have two wolfers that I reach 5 watts and two
tweeters that I reach two Watts which should be very good sounding especially
since they were tuned by AKG it's clear the mids seem pretty
decent okay that's not too bad that's not too bad I can jam to
that all right let's let's see how it compares to a MacBook Pro 14
in killed
murdered nice and clear nice and
clear not even
close ouch all right let's have a look at the webcam here it's 1080p 2
megapixel and Samsung of course on all of their phones has been doing an
excellent job with their cameras and it looks like they have applied that here
too this is having a bit of trouble directly into the lights but it's still
is exposing for my face we turn around here is it able to figure it out yeah no
problem at all looks nice and clear and crisp and overall seems pretty good do
we have facial recognition no compatible camera oh sadness we do have a
fingerprint reader up here on the right hand side which is on top of the power
button best spot to have it but that said I do wish that there was facial
recognition especially at this price you haven't talked about it yet but you're going to you're going to poop yourself
when you find out how much this thing costs this is the bit that I said would be annoying at the start where we have
to remove these oh that actually come off really easily normally these are
glued on and just never go back on but maybe these feet won't be too bad
although it also looks like they'll just fall off after a year or two so that's
not so good four rubber feet four Phillips head screws and a bunch of
prying later and we are in up top here we have a big old Vapor chamber which is
how we were able to extract those 80 Watts out of the 40 50 I see a
replaceable SSD right here and an upgrade slot right there for a second
SSD love to see that sadly the Wi-Fi card is soldered down so if you want
Wi-Fi 7 I don't know just don't buy this laptop and for the battery here it is
73.8 W hours and the battery life they were able to extract from this thing is
incredible in our endurance test we were able to get over 11 and 1/2 hours on
battery in this thing and espe especially given this has an OLED
display that is incredible Intel's new
processors even though they might not be much faster are proving to be quite
efficient and I do really appreciate
that I misread the spec sheet I thought
this was $400 less and still a bad value
but this right here with 16 GB of RAM 1
TB SSD and RTX 4050 is
$2400 it's it's a bit of a sin cuz this overall quite a good laptop I could see
a lot of people really enjoying this thing if they didn't just have every
single other laptop as an option at that price you could instead get a zephyris
g16 for $22,000 that has the same amount of RAM
and storage but an RTX 470 and I'm
pretty sure it's the exact same panel from Samsung also this is available with
up to a 470 and that config is
$3,000 so uh I just don't get it it
simply makes no sense for the price that they're asking to buy this laptop it's
got like a couple medium compromises like the keyboard's okay trackpads kind
of weird speakers are fine for that price it needs to be brilliant for
comparison the brand new Spectre X360
from HP has as far as I can tell the exact same OLED panel which is a
touchcreen 4050 same specs that one is 6
,60 compared to $2400 for this so
overall I just I have no clue where that price comes from Samsung has made the
battery they made the SSD they made the display and probably a bunch of the
other stuff in here and presumably they get a good price on all of those things
but you certainly do not but what you do get is a thank you from me huge thanks
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