WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.880 On paper, this Samsung Galaxy Book looks absolutely exceptional. 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:09.600 The only thing is though, knowing Samsung, they f***ed it up somehow. 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:12.960 Let's figure out what it is. Open the computer, press the power button. 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:16.800 That's what you need to do. Warranty, don't care about that. 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:21.760 Here we have a 140 watt charger, which is all being delivered over USB Type-C. 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:27.120 Damn it. That's not what I wanted to do. 00:00:27.840 --> 00:00:31.680 Oh, there's the charging cable. How long is the cable? It is six feet. 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, 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, 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, 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:51.680 USB Type-A, headphone microphone combo jack, 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:56.320 on the left hand side, two Thunderbolt 4s and HDMI 2.1. 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:00.000 I do really like how the Samsung logo is all rainbow-y. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.800 It's like RGB, but without the power. In the past, my experience with Samsung laptops 00:01:04.800 --> 00:01:10.080 has been that they have incredible screens, and the rest kind of just sucks. 00:01:10.080 --> 00:01:15.600 But right here, this feels vastly improved. We have an all-metal chassis pushing on it. 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:17.920 It feels really great. Damn. 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:22.000 Before we go any further, there's one thing that I really need to do. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.000 This sticker is super crooked. I'm just going to get rid of it. 00:01:26.080 --> 00:01:30.480 Oh, this is a mistake. 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:34.560 Let's boot it up. Secured by Knox. 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 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:45.200 in its own little area for enhanced not getting hacked. 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. 00:01:49.360 --> 00:01:52.640 Like they have some really brutal mouse acceleration on it, 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. 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.400 Missed it. Completely missed it. Not even close. 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:05.360 It feels really jello-y, and you can kind of see that it seems 00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:08.560 like the polling rate is also really low. 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. 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:16.000 One sec. Yeah, that's awesome. 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:20.560 That is absolutely perfect. You can see like I'm moving it across here. 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:24.160 It looks really, really nice on this display. One other thing that I just noticed 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. 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:32.560 It's something that they did on the surfaces, 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.640 and I guess they're doing here as well. Oh my god, mebs acceleration. 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:43.840 Anyway, anyway. Spec, specs, specs are good. In here we have an Intel Core Ultra7 155H. 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.520 That is 16 cores, 22 threads, 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:52.000 and these things are really, really fast. Also we have 16 gigabytes of RAM, 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.200 which it says row of chips, so they are presumably soldered down. 00:02:55.200 --> 00:03:00.640 Actually, they're definitely soldered down because they are running at 74, 67 megatransfers per second. 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:03.680 So you do get really fast RAM at least, 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. 00:03:09.760 --> 00:03:14.240 Love to see it. You guys make excellent drives. We also have ARC graphics, 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:19.840 and NPU with Intel's AI Boost, and to top it off, an RTX 4050, 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:24.240 which means even though this right here won't be a super duper gaming laptop, 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:28.320 it'll probably be a pretty darn good one. And also for content creation, 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:33.120 like video editing, photo editing, all of that stuff, it is going to be a beast. 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:36.320 This 4050 also goes up to 80 watts TGP, 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. 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:44.240 Oh, it's a touchscreen. We've got OLED. We've got touch. 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, 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:51.520 so it's able to go from 48 to 120 Hertz 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:55.120 based on battery saving stuff, but do note that it's not G-Sync. 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:58.400 So it's not going to be doing that for like frame pacing in games. 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, 00:04:04.320 --> 00:04:10.000 so 2880 by 1800p, and hot damn, this thing is excellent. 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, 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, 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. 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:30.160 No, this just, no matter what, you get that full brightness out of those OLED pixels. 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:34.800 And look at that, pitch black. Of course, this is a Samsung device, 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:38.720 so out of the box, everything is pretty saturated on display, 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:43.120 but it has heaps of color profiles. So if you just clamp it down to sRGB, 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:46.160 we have an average Delta E of 1.2, 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:50.240 which is absolutely fantastic. We expect less than two, 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:54.080 if you want to do professional color work, so you can do that on here. 00:04:54.080 --> 00:04:57.760 Also in HDR, the content on this looks fantastic, 00:04:57.760 --> 00:05:00.800 and we measured an average Delta E of 13.4, 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:05.120 which is really quite good, because HDR, you're getting both the color 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. 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:14.080 Look at this for a second, Andrew. Like just the background. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:18.000 These little details right here. One thing I did miss before, 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, 00:05:22.880 --> 00:05:26.560 which is quite good, but I do wish that I had Wi-Fi 7, 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.560 given that this is a very premium device. Is the keyboard good, though? 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, 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, 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:40.400 but oh, I'll deal with that. 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:49.040 I don't know how I feel about this keyboard, if I'm honest. 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:52.240 Objectively speaking, it seems pretty good. Like if we look here, 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. 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:01.920 Also, key to key, the force is really quite good, 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.840 and the chassis is nice and stiff, so it's really nice and consistent. 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, 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:15.280 but it's not too bad. That said, though, the actuation profile is super weird. 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. 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:24.320 I think part of it is that now that I've touched it more, 00:06:24.960 --> 00:06:28.400 there is definitely some inconsistencies in the switching force. 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. 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:37.520 Like, I don't know, you feel like you're really thonking. 00:06:37.520 --> 00:06:41.280 You're thonking the keyboard. Overall, though, I'm going to give it an A minus. 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:45.520 I think it's a solid keyboard. You can type on it. 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, 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. 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, 00:06:57.840 --> 00:07:02.560 given that it's an Ultrabook, and it's not particularly large, 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. 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.240 So if you're looking for actual just raw performance, 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, 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.560 and two tweeters that are reached two watts, which should be very good sounding, 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:23.840 especially since they were tuned by AKG. It's clear. 00:07:23.840 --> 00:07:25.360 The mids seem pretty decent. 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.840 Okay, that's not too bad. That's not too bad. I can jam to that. 00:07:33.440 --> 00:07:36.720 All right, let's see how it compares to a MacBook Pro 14 inch. 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:42.800 It's good. Killed, murdered. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:47.040 Nice and clear. Nice and clear. 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:50.800 Not even close. 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, 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. 00:08:06.320 --> 00:08:09.360 This is having a bit of trouble directly into the lights, 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.480 but it still is exposing for my face. We turn around here. 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. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.200 Do we have facial recognition? No compatible camera. 00:08:23.200 --> 00:08:27.200 Oh, sadness. Will you have a fingerprint reader up here on the right hand side, 00:08:27.200 --> 00:08:30.560 which is on top of the power button? Best spot to have it. 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:34.080 But that said, I do wish that there was facial recognition, especially at this price. 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 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, 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:44.400 where we have to remove these. Oh, that actually came off really easily. 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, 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. 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. 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 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:07.200 out of the 4050. I see a replaceable SSD right here 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:10.880 and an upgrade slot right there for a second SSD. 00:09:10.880 --> 00:09:14.880 Love to see that. Sadly, the Wi-Fi card is soldered down, 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. 00:09:18.880 --> 00:09:23.040 And for the battery here, it is 73.8 watt hours, 00:09:23.040 --> 00:09:27.280 and the battery life they were able to extract from this thing is incredible. 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, 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.840 and especially given this has an OLED display, that is incredible. 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, 00:09:43.520 --> 00:09:48.320 and I do really appreciate that. I misread the spec sheet. 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:51.680 I thought this was $400 less and still a bad value, 00:09:51.680 --> 00:09:55.040 but this right here, with 16 gigabytes of RAM, 00:09:55.040 --> 00:10:00.040 a one terabyte SSD, and RTX 4050, is $2,400. 00:10:00.520 --> 00:10:04.680 That's a bit of a sin, because this overall, 00:10:04.680 --> 00:10:09.240 quite a good laptop. I could see a lot of people really enjoying this thing 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:12.840 if they didn't just have every single other laptop 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:19.800 as an option at that price. You could instead get a Zephyrus G16 for $2,000 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 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, 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:35.360 and that config is $3,000, so I just don't get it. 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:40.000 It simply makes no sense for the price that they're asking to buy this laptop. 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.160 It's got a couple medium compromises, 00:10:43.160 --> 00:10:46.440 like the keyboard's okay, trackpad's kind of weird, 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:51.360 speakers are fine. For that price, it needs to be brilliant. 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:55.880 For comparison, the brand new Spectre X360 from HP 00:10:55.880 --> 00:10:59.640 has, as far as I can tell, the exact same OLED panel, 00:10:59.640 --> 00:11:02.920 which is a touchscreen, 4050, same specs. 00:11:02.920 --> 00:11:07.920 That one is $1,660, compared to 2,400 for this. 00:11:09.920 --> 00:11:13.440 So overall, I have no clue where that price comes from. 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.440 Samsung has made the battery, they made the SSD, 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 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:24.760 a good price on all of those things, but you certainly do not. 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. 00:11:28.900 --> 00:11:32.280 Hit like, get subscribed, and have a great old day. See you later.