1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,880 On paper, this Samsung Galaxy Book looks absolutely exceptional. 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,600 The only thing is though, knowing Samsung, they f***ed it up somehow. 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,960 Let's figure out what it is. Open the computer, press the power button. 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,800 That's what you need to do. Warranty, don't care about that. 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:21,760 Here we have a 140 watt charger, which is all being delivered over USB Type-C. 6 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,120 Damn it. That's not what I wanted to do. 7 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,680 Oh, there's the charging cable. How long is the cable? It is six feet. 8 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:36,560 One thing that is pretty concerning while we have it flipped over like this is I don't see any screws, 9 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:42,880 so I suspect getting into this will be a pain. All right, so we've got the Samsung Galaxy Ultrabook 4 right here, 10 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:48,160 and my first impressions are that it's quite well built. On the right, we have a micro SD card reader, 11 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:51,680 USB Type-A, headphone microphone combo jack, 12 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:56,320 on the left hand side, two Thunderbolt 4s and HDMI 2.1. 13 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,000 I do really like how the Samsung logo is all rainbow-y. 14 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,800 It's like RGB, but without the power. In the past, my experience with Samsung laptops 15 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:10,080 has been that they have incredible screens, and the rest kind of just sucks. 16 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:15,600 But right here, this feels vastly improved. We have an all-metal chassis pushing on it. 17 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,920 It feels really great. Damn. 18 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,000 Before we go any further, there's one thing that I really need to do. 19 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,000 This sticker is super crooked. I'm just going to get rid of it. 20 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:30,480 Oh, this is a mistake. 21 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,560 Let's boot it up. Secured by Knox. 22 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:41,680 Oh, fancy. Their Knox chip is actually pretty cool, is its own dedicated chip that secures all of your sensitive stuff 23 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,200 in its own little area for enhanced not getting hacked. 24 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,360 I don't know why, but this touchpad just like makes me feel like I'm drunk. 25 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,640 Like they have some really brutal mouse acceleration on it, 26 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:57,760 and I just keep on missing the stuff that I'm going for. Like let's go for the X at the top right. 27 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,400 Missed it. Completely missed it. Not even close. 28 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,360 It feels really jello-y, and you can kind of see that it seems 29 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,560 like the polling rate is also really low. 30 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,840 I'm almost certain that's a touchpad problem, and nothing to do with like the display. 31 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:16,000 One sec. Yeah, that's awesome. 32 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,560 That is absolutely perfect. You can see like I'm moving it across here. 33 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:24,160 It looks really, really nice on this display. One other thing that I just noticed 34 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:29,680 is that you don't actually get the full display. If you look, we have rounded corners on the edges. 35 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,560 It's something that they did on the surfaces, 36 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,640 and I guess they're doing here as well. Oh my god, mebs acceleration. 37 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:43,840 Anyway, anyway. Spec, specs, specs are good. In here we have an Intel Core Ultra7 155H. 38 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,520 That is 16 cores, 22 threads, 39 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:52,000 and these things are really, really fast. Also we have 16 gigabytes of RAM, 40 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,200 which it says row of chips, so they are presumably soldered down. 41 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:00,640 Actually, they're definitely soldered down because they are running at 74, 67 megatransfers per second. 42 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:03,680 So you do get really fast RAM at least, 43 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:09,760 even though you can't upgrade it. For the SSD, we have a 512 Gigabyte NVMe SSD from Samsung. 44 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:14,240 Love to see it. You guys make excellent drives. We also have ARC graphics, 45 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:19,840 and NPU with Intel's AI Boost, and to top it off, an RTX 4050, 46 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:24,240 which means even though this right here won't be a super duper gaming laptop, 47 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,320 it'll probably be a pretty darn good one. And also for content creation, 48 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:33,120 like video editing, photo editing, all of that stuff, it is going to be a beast. 49 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,320 This 4050 also goes up to 80 watts TGP, 50 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,480 which is very healthy for a 4050. You'll be getting most of the performance out of it. 51 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,240 Oh, it's a touchscreen. We've got OLED. We've got touch. 52 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,480 We've got, oh my god, this thing looks good. This also has a dynamic refresh rate, 53 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,520 so it's able to go from 48 to 120 Hertz 54 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,120 based on battery saving stuff, but do note that it's not G-Sync. 55 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,400 So it's not going to be doing that for like frame pacing in games. 56 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:04,320 It's more so just for power savings. The resolution also is a little bit more than Quad HD, 57 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:10,000 so 2880 by 1800p, and hot damn, this thing is excellent. 58 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:16,400 The brightness on this panel is fantastic. In SDR, you get 400 nits, and in HDR, 600 nits, 59 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:20,880 and for both of those, that is full screen brightness. So you don't have anything where like, 60 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:25,360 a little tiny window gets super bright, and then when it gets blown up, it all kind of looks like junk. 61 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:30,160 No, this just, no matter what, you get that full brightness out of those OLED pixels. 62 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:34,800 And look at that, pitch black. Of course, this is a Samsung device, 63 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,720 so out of the box, everything is pretty saturated on display, 64 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,120 but it has heaps of color profiles. So if you just clamp it down to sRGB, 65 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,160 we have an average Delta E of 1.2, 66 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,240 which is absolutely fantastic. We expect less than two, 67 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,080 if you want to do professional color work, so you can do that on here. 68 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,760 Also in HDR, the content on this looks fantastic, 69 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,800 and we measured an average Delta E of 13.4, 70 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,120 which is really quite good, because HDR, you're getting both the color 71 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:10,400 and the brightness to match, which is a bit more difficult. And this display does a fantastic job of that. 72 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,080 Look at this for a second, Andrew. Like just the background. 73 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:18,000 These little details right here. One thing I did miss before, 74 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,880 because we just weren't connected to the internet, is that we have a Wi-Fi 6E card in here, 75 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,560 which is quite good, but I do wish that I had Wi-Fi 7, 76 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:30,560 given that this is a very premium device. Is the keyboard good, though? 77 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,880 There is one thing that's kind of annoying about this. We have an international version of the keyboard, 78 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,720 instead of like a North American one, so we don't have a big shift on the left-hand side, 79 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,400 but oh, I'll deal with that. 80 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:49,040 I don't know how I feel about this keyboard, if I'm honest. 81 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,240 Objectively speaking, it seems pretty good. Like if we look here, 82 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:57,360 if I push on the side of the key, it actuates the entire key before I can get much dipping. 83 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,920 Also, key to key, the force is really quite good, 84 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,840 and the chassis is nice and stiff, so it's really nice and consistent. 85 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:10,560 There is, I think it's a little bit stiffer on the right-hand side compared to the left, 86 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,280 but it's not too bad. That said, though, the actuation profile is super weird. 87 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:21,280 Like there's no pre-actuation, if that makes sense. Like you press on the key, nothing happens, then it goes. 88 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:24,320 I think part of it is that now that I've touched it more, 89 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,400 there is definitely some inconsistencies in the switching force. 90 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:34,080 Like some of them take a little bit more force than others, but mostly it's just kind of a strange profile. 91 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,520 Like, I don't know, you feel like you're really thonking. 92 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,280 You're thonking the keyboard. Overall, though, I'm going to give it an A minus. 93 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:45,520 I think it's a solid keyboard. You can type on it. 94 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,120 I got up to almost full speed there. Actually, I would say that I got up to full speed, 95 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:53,360 and I think that I would get used to it in an hour or so and just be ripping on it. 96 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,840 Performance-wise, here are the results from the Labs, and overall, I would say that it did quite well, 97 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:02,560 given that it's an Ultrabook, and it's not particularly large, 98 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:08,560 but at the same time, it got absolutely smashed by the ASUS G14, which is both smaller and cheaper. 99 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,240 So if you're looking for actual just raw performance, 100 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,000 this is not what you want. In here, we have two woofers that are reached five watts, 101 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,560 and two tweeters that are reached two watts, which should be very good sounding, 102 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,840 especially since they were tuned by AKG. It's clear. 103 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,360 The mids seem pretty decent. 104 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,840 Okay, that's not too bad. That's not too bad. I can jam to that. 105 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,720 All right, let's see how it compares to a MacBook Pro 14 inch. 106 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,800 It's good. Killed, murdered. 107 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,040 Nice and clear. Nice and clear. 108 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:50,800 Not even close. 109 00:07:52,960 --> 00:08:00,080 Ouch. All right, let's have a look at the webcam here. It's 1080p, two megapixel, and Samsung, of course, 110 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:05,840 on all of their phones has been doing an excellent job with their cameras, and it looks like they have applied that here, too. 111 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,360 This is having a bit of trouble directly into the lights, 112 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,480 but it still is exposing for my face. We turn around here. 113 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:20,000 Is it able to figure it out? Yeah, no problem at all. Looks nice and clear and crisp, and overall, seems pretty good. 114 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,200 Do we have facial recognition? No compatible camera. 115 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:27,200 Oh, sadness. Will you have a fingerprint reader up here on the right hand side, 116 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,560 which is on top of the power button? Best spot to have it. 117 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,080 But that said, I do wish that there was facial recognition, especially at this price. 118 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,280 You haven't talked about it yet, but you're going to poop yourself when you find out 119 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,360 how much this thing costs. This is the bit that I said would be annoying at the start, 120 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,400 where we have to remove these. Oh, that actually came off really easily. 121 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:49,600 Normally, these are glued on and just never go back on, but maybe these feet won't be too bad, 122 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,520 although it also looks like they'll just fall off after a year or two, so that's not so good. 123 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:58,240 Four rubber feet, four Phillips head screws, and a bunch of prying later, and we are in. 124 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:02,960 Up top here, we have a big old vapor chamber, which is how we were able to extract those 80 watts 125 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:07,200 out of the 4050. I see a replaceable SSD right here 126 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,880 and an upgrade slot right there for a second SSD. 127 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,880 Love to see that. Sadly, the Wi-Fi card is soldered down, 128 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,880 so if you want Wi-Fi 7, I don't know, just don't buy this laptop. 129 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:23,040 And for the battery here, it is 73.8 watt hours, 130 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:27,280 and the battery life they were able to extract from this thing is incredible. 131 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:33,040 In our endurance test, we are able to get over 11 and a half hours on battery in this thing, 132 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:37,840 and especially given this has an OLED display, that is incredible. 133 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:43,520 Intel's new processors, even though they might not be much faster, are proving to be quite efficient, 134 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:48,320 and I do really appreciate that. I misread the spec sheet. 135 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,680 I thought this was $400 less and still a bad value, 136 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:55,040 but this right here, with 16 gigabytes of RAM, 137 00:09:55,040 --> 00:10:00,040 a one terabyte SSD, and RTX 4050, is $2,400. 138 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,680 That's a bit of a sin, because this overall, 139 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:09,240 quite a good laptop. I could see a lot of people really enjoying this thing 140 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,840 if they didn't just have every single other laptop 141 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:19,800 as an option at that price. You could instead get a Zephyrus G16 for $2,000 142 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:24,920 that has the same amount of RAM and storage, but an RTX 4070, and I'm pretty sure 143 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:30,360 it's the exact same panel from Samsung. Also, this is available with up to a 4070, 144 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:35,360 and that config is $3,000, so I just don't get it. 145 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,000 It simply makes no sense for the price that they're asking to buy this laptop. 146 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,160 It's got a couple medium compromises, 147 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,440 like the keyboard's okay, trackpad's kind of weird, 148 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:51,360 speakers are fine. For that price, it needs to be brilliant. 149 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,880 For comparison, the brand new Spectre X360 from HP 150 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,640 has, as far as I can tell, the exact same OLED panel, 151 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,920 which is a touchscreen, 4050, same specs. 152 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:07,920 That one is $1,660, compared to 2,400 for this. 153 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,440 So overall, I have no clue where that price comes from. 154 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,440 Samsung has made the battery, they made the SSD, 155 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,600 they made the display, and probably a bunch of the other stuff in here, and presumably they get 156 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,760 a good price on all of those things, but you certainly do not. 157 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:28,900 But what you do get is a thank you from me. Huge thanks for watching this video. 158 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:32,280 Hit like, get subscribed, and have a great old day. See you later.