Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro Laptop Review - Better than the new XPS 16

[Redaktion]

Samsung's new Galaxy Book6 Pro gets Intel's Panther Lake processors, Wi-Fi 7 as well as a new OLED touchscreen, which is finally brighter than before. Prices are very high, however, and the Galaxy Book6 Pro faces excellent rivals, so is it enough to beat the XPS 16 or Zenbook S16?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-Galaxy-Book6-Pro-Laptop-Review-Better-than-the-new-XPS-16.1257679.0.html

[jdrch]

I agree, especially with the 1800p resolution, which Dell seems allergic to.

[Crazy bad value]

PWM flickering with high amplitude

OMG first time see 100% amplitude at 240 Hz. Very good stroboscope.

Soldered 32 GB RAM for 2200, no dGPU and the iGPU is only a 4 cores Xe / not even the Arc B390? Crazy bad value.

[Crazy bad value]

Leme elaborate:

Apple MacBook Air 15 M5
Apple M5 10-Core GPU, Apple M5 10-Core   
1070 Points

Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro
Intel Graphics 4 Xe3 Panther Lake iGPU, Intel Core Ultra 7 356H   
622 Points

So the Air 15 is 71% faster. And an MacBook Air 13, that costs approximately only one third(!), scores 941 points.

Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro
Intel Graphics 4 Xe3, Ultra 7 356H, Samsung PM9C1b MZVL8512HFLU-00BLL   
460 ms *

Apple MacBook Air 15 M5
M5 10-Core GPU, M5 10-Core, Apple SSD AP2048Z   
238.6 ms *

Again the Air is almost 2 times faster (and one does notice this btw).

And the Air achieves this all without any fans.

[dumb_oems]

Apple fanboys used to be the ones overpaying.

Now the Windows kids pay double for a substantially worse product. What a time to be alive.

[John S]

Apple fanboys used to be the ones overpaying.

Now the Windows kids pay double for a substantially worse product. What a time to be alive.

The screen is bigger, can do higher refresh rates, and looks better (OLED), PWM aside (which most will not be bothered by if we're honest, because the PWM fill rate on this particular panel isn't a sine wave, it's a square wave with about 80% fill factor, as in it stays on 80% of the time, so the equivalent perceptible PWM frequency would be around 1200 Hz, I reckon those who are genuinely bothered by PWM would find this panel easier to look at than a 500 Hz PWM with 50% fill factor)

... other than that, you're right! I too am thinking to get an M5 Air, even though I really wanted 16" and not 15". Fanless and faster and cheaper has become hard to beat. Especially since over the past week most Windows laptop manufacturers have hiked up their prices overnight by 20% or so.

[Worgarthe]

Apple fanboys used to be the ones overpaying.

Now the Windows kids pay double for a substantially worse product. What a time to be alive.

The screen is bigger, can do higher refresh rates, and looks better (OLED),...

...

I too am thinking to get an M5 Air, even though I really wanted 16" and not 15". Fanless and faster and cheaper has become hard to beat. Especially since over the past week most Windows laptop manufacturers have hiked up their prices overnight by 20% or so.

Air + external OLED display (as most of us still use laptops as home), together for far cheaper price (and better overall performance of both) than this Scamsung laptop here 🙂