during the Samsung event that revealed the Galaxy Note 10.1 was really
expecting and honestly it's probably the most exciting announcement for me
personally and that's the galaxy book s if you've been following the channel
you've heard of us talking about mobile chips getting big improvements
year-over-year while Intel has been lagging behind and how Apple is paving
the way to switch to their own CPUs and Mac books
well now it's officially here but Samsung beat them to the market with an
ARM chip designed for a full OS instead of just being repurposed and to be
honest it could give a lot of thin laptops including MacBook Airs are run
for their money before we dive into performance and
special features along with one big disappointment
let's talk about the exterior the laptop has a very simple design which is a good
thing but it also has a curve by the hinge which i think is a nice addition
the top and bottom look to be aluminum but I'm uncertain about the pomace the
keyboard is a low-profile chiclet design and we also have a fingerman scanner and
a large trackpad at the top we have a 720p webcam but unfortunately no windows
slow facial recognition overall it is slightly thinner and smaller than the
MacBook Air and weighs just 2.1 pounds compared to 2.75 pounds
that may not sound like a big difference on paper but if you remember the 12 inch
retina macbook which was 2 pounds that felt much lighter than the MacBook Air
but of course that only had one port and really poor performance with thermal
throttling the galaxy book s will be much faster with a larger display and
just slightly heavier on the sides we thankfully still have a headphone jack
unlike the note 10 and 2 USB type-c ports which seem to be USB 3.1 gen2 for
up to 1250 megabytes per second bandwidth and they can also support two
4k displays on the bottom we have a nano sim and micro SD card combo slot would
support for up to one terabyte SD cards we've had LTE connected devices like
iPads and smart watches for years so I've always wondered why laptops have
been left out but recently we're starting to see this push which is great
for those who are on the go and need to be connected on the inside we have a 42
watt hour battery which is smaller than the MacBook Airs 50 but the battery life
is rated at a massive 23 hours of video playback compared to 13
hours on the air of course these numbers are usually
overrated compared to the real world since the brightness is usually turned
down as well as other things but even if it is within the 18 hour range it will
be very impressive and I do think that's possible since at the heart of this
machine we have the snapdragon 8c X which is a seven watt chip the i-5 in
the air is a dual-core model where the hcx is an 8 core using four powerful
cores and for power efficiency cores during the reveal of the 8 CX Qualcomm
compared it to an 8th gen 1.6 gigahertz quad core i5 that's available on many
current Windows laptops and said that it was slightly faster while using much
less power of course we will be doing a bunch of tests when we get the galaxy
book essen by the way make sure to subscribe so you guys don't miss out on
that but at this time there is very little performance info on the CPU and
even less on the graphics we do have some numbers from PC mark which you guys
can see right here and we also found some tests for the MacBook Air as you
can see the HDX is a fair ways ahead realistically estimating the performance
and Geekbench for it should get at least 12,000 in multi-core compared to 7400
for the MacBook Air even though this laptop is fanless throttling shouldn't
be an issue like the retina MacBook was due to the HD axis efficient 7 nanometre
design on the graphics side we have the adrenal 680 which is a more powerful
version of the 640 in the galaxy s 10 and the note 10 and compared to the
Intel USC 620 that's in that quad core i5 the adrenal 680 is about 20% more
powerful meaning it should likely be at least 40 percent more powerful than the
617 in the MacBook gear and there'll be an even bigger difference if you want to
please some like games not only do we have great battery life and respectable
performance but the HDX packs in a ton of other things into one chip we have
the same amazing x24 modem that's in the galaxy s 10 plus and note 10 which gave
me much better speeds in reception than my iPhone 10s max and along with that we
have the latest Wi-Fi chips and Bluetooth 5 one big benefit of using an
ARM chip as the built-in hardware designed for specific tasks for example
we have negative h.265 and vp9 decoding and encoding and it can even handle up
to 4k 120 frames per second another selling point that is being
marketed is the galaxy book s being and always on design just like your phone so
you're not to wait for it to start up it should be instant as for memory we have
256 gigabytes of storage which we will test the speeds up when we get it in and
eight gigabytes of new LP ddr4 Ram whereas Apple is still using lpddr3 but
that could be just an Intel restriction sound is another thing that I'm curious
to test out Samsung lists sound by AKG which is a brand that they own and it's
also labeled as Dolby Atmos technology but we've seen those labels on other
machines where the speakers are fairly weak whereas Apple always does a
fantastic job with their speakers now I mentioned one disappointment with the
system and that is the display it's a 1080p panel which makes sense because
they are focusing on battery life but what gets me is that it's labeled as a
TFT display not an IPS I read through a bunch of hands-on content and looked at
some videos and no one mentioned the display quality for some weird reason
TFT panels typically have worse color accuracy and viewing angles so that may
be the biggest downside of this ultra light machine the brightness was also
not mentioned so that's something that we will be taking a look at once we get
it in overall the galaxy book s looks like an intriguing laptop with a nice
ultra light design and a usable amount of RAM and SSD in the base model it
starts at $9.99 compared to the $12.99 for a similar respect MacBook Air but
with more performance and battery life of course a huge selling point for
macbook buyers is mac OS so if you need that no windows alternative will steer
you away but for those open to Windows this may be a great option let us know
your thoughts on the galaxy book s down below I would love to hear you guys's
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