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Posted by Dorby

- January 23, 2021, 06:36:35

What happened to the good old Notebook 9 and Notebook 9 Pen series with some of the best in-class keyboard, variety port selection and the nice curved design?

The current Galaxy Book lineup is practically unusable with unnecessarily shallow keyboard, USB-C only, soldered components (13" is 8GB only and 15" limited to 16), very sharp edges, and a serious screen wobble that is present on all Samsung laptops.

Their screen is advertised as QLED 600nits for easy outdoor usability yet I found that you cant' manually crank up the brightness all the way for some reason. And While Samsung's Galaxy Tablets sound better than iPads, these Galaxy Books sound nowhere close to the base MacBook Air, or even good Windows laptops. Samsung acquired AKG, but these laptop speakers are definitely not AKG.

Wacom EMR on a laptop that doesn't cost $3k+ is the only reason to buy them, but they're far from the best with little support outside of Asia Pacific.

Posted by James ck

- January 22, 2021, 23:41:16

Where is the AMD ryzen version? Intel means low efficiency nowadays.

Posted by capnkimo

- January 21, 2021, 21:30:09

hopefully they got the 90hz OLED displays

Posted by Redaktion

- January 21, 2021, 19:52:14

Samsung has certified a new line of products with the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). They are called the Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360. By the sound of it, they are new PCs of the laptop or convertible form-factor.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-has-a-new-Pro-series-of-Galaxy-Books-in-the-works.516256.0.html