so i was surprised at how many folks were requesting this video comparing the new
galaxy book 2 360 to the galaxy tab s8 there are surprising number of similarities here but there
is one big obvious difference in i'm talking about operating systems the galaxy book is a
laptop that runs windows it also folds back into a tablet like form factor and that's great for
drawing with the included s-pen the galaxy tab on the other hand is a straight-up tablet running
android with samsung's ui on it what muddies the water a little bit is that samsung with the tab s8
ultra is really going for that tablet slash laptop hybrid and when you look at the galaxy book 360
it's kind of doing the same thing by the way my name's brad i review tech for creative
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enjoy i think what's most important is you need to ask yourself what will i be using this device
for email web browsing social media illustration and drawing video editing graphic design
depending on how you're going to use it is really going to affect which one is probably
the best fit for you for example if we're talking about straight up illustration i kind of prefer
going with the s8 tablet line of things i just really like the touch-based interfaces
mainly because i think the touch-based interfaces work extremely well on a tablet whereas windows
really relies on a lot of those keyboard shortcuts and you lose those when you flip it around into
the tablet form factor now some of that earlier stuff i mentioned like browsing the web social
media emailing both of these can do those things extremely well but when you get into some of the
higher end creative tasks that's where i think a laptop tends to excel over a tablet i don't really
enjoy editing video on a tablet there aren't any really great 3d apps on a tablet but then again
i don't know if i would get this particular laptop i'd probably want something a little bit more
powerful if i was going that road samsung also has a feature on their android devices called dex what
what exactly is dex well what it does is it turns your android device into a windows looking kind of
device so whenever you open any app it's going to open up into a window very similar to like a
windows or mac desktop interface and you can move those around and you can resize them and it works
surprisingly well but at the end of the day it's just android that's running on top of everything
if you're using a tab s8 with a keyboard this really does have a very strong laptop vibe when
you're using decks now i'm gonna be completely honest here and i've said this in other videos
dex is a cool idea but for me personally i've never really gotten into it that much i think
there's two reasons for this one i really don't like the trackpad on the galaxy tabs keyboards and
the second reason is i just haven't spent enough time with it i think if i spent more time with dex
i'd be more familiar with it in fact for the sake of this video i ended up writing this script on
decks and using it a lot more than i have in the past just to get a little bit more familiar with
it and i still have some quirks with it that i'm not quite used to because dex looks like windows
i expect it to behave more like windows i have a folder open and i want to take an image from that
folder and drag it into an app that i have open and then draw on it that's how i'd work on the
desktop but it just doesn't work like that here you can't drag anything out of programs or drag
things from app to app everything is just sealed off the way android apps are because these are
android apps i would assume it's because the people who made the file app for android just
never expected it to be used this way so it doesn't work that way i look at these features
as a nice extra something that's cool to have but not the main selling point of what you're going
to be using these products for for my work i need a laptop mostly for video editing and design and
just keeping my website up to date i find that these tasks are easier to do on a laptop than
they are on a tablet you can use a tablet you can definitely use a tablet there are apps out there
that will allow you to do these things but i think it's so much easier to do them on a laptop
all right let's talk about hardware the galaxy tabs build quality is great now this is the best
android tablet out there full stop the amoled screen looks spectacular it's really pixel dense
it looks and feels like an ipad pro in all of the best ways you've got the squared off
edges and the aluminum feels really premium and nice the speakers they sound really good for a
tablet in fact they sound really good period the cameras on the front and on the back are both
solid this is samsung's top of the line phone blown up into this tablet form factor now the
galaxy book is pretty good too it feels solid for a windows laptop it's super light that's its key
feature i love that the hinges are a little bit floppy when you're tapping on the screen using
your hand to kind of move around things you're definitely going to see that screen move quite a
bit it's also not going to stand up all by itself at lower angles so you're not going to want to
draw on it like that now the screen on the galaxy book is it's pretty good it's another one of
samsung's amoled displays but it's only full hd so you are gonna see pixels on this especially if you
get up close to it when you're drawing that's the biggest difference you're gonna notice compared
to its android counterpart one of the things that makes the tab s8 feel more premium to me
is the battery life and the fan noise or lack thereof the tab s8 ultra's battery will last you
all day now the galaxy book will last you i'd say five to six hours when you're using most drawing
apps or creative apps now for a laptop that's that's pretty good but because the tab s8 is using
less power and because it has a more efficient snapdragon chipset you're going to see that
battery difference whereas the book is running intel so it needs better cooling that means fan
noise it also means you're going to notice the hot air kind of shooting out at you when it's
in tablet mode the book is also going to get a lot warmer than the tab the only time i noticed
the galaxy tab getting warm on me is when it was plugged in and the battery was charging and even
then it doesn't get hot just gets a little bit warm another thing to consider is typing how
much time are you going to spend typing on this and where are you going to be typing on this
the keyboard accessory that's available for the s8 ultra is pretty expensive it's 350 extra so that's
something you're gonna have to budget for and it's only okay it gets the job done i mentioned in some
earlier videos i'm not really a fan of how samsung has integrated the trackpad on this thing there's
this slight delay whenever you start using it which makes the entire process feel laggier than
it really is now the galaxy book keyboard is just better suited for long typing sessions it's also
better suited for using on your lap whereas the floppy keyboard that you find on the galaxy tab
is really a desk-based thing the typing experience on both of these is is okay i find that the key
treble on both is pretty low but it gets the job done it doesn't feel bad now what about drawing
both of these devices come with the s pen packed in nice performance wise it is the same exact
pen and it performs the same exact way these are very smooth pens i don't get a lot of wobbly lines
they have these tiny little rubber tips which work pretty well on these glass screens it
gives you a little bit of resistance samsung has been improving the palm recognition on android
in regards to the s pens over the last few years however on their laptops they've been pretty much
in the same place as far as palm rejection goes for quite a while now what this means is you're
gonna have to go into the settings of windows and many of your apps and play around and adjust the
palm recognition and that sort of thing to make sure that you're toggling it off so you're not
accidentally using your palm to select the wrong layer leave extra dots lying around on your canvas
you can make it work but it's just not as well implemented as it is on the tab how about software
specifically drawing apps there are a ton of drawing apps available for windows and many of
them are the more fully featured professional apps that you think of when you think of drawing apps
if you want to draw on photoshop go windows if you want a fully featured vector program like adobe
illustrator or affinity designer go with windows plus on windows you're going to have access to a
whole bunch of creative apps that just aren't going to exist on android blender for 3d work
windows what about premiere pro for video editing windows although to be fair and like i said before
this is probably not the computer i would go for if you're thinking about 3d rendering or video but
still in a pinch if you want to do a little bit of work here and there in those kind of applications
a laptop is probably the better choice now this is not to say you can't find 3d apps or video editing
apps on android you absolutely can powerdirector is a video editing app lumafusion is coming to
android that's a video editing app that's been available on the ipad for a while i've used both
of those and both of those are pretty good but i still prefer just being able to have folders and
just being able to drag files around i like using premiere pro that's what i'm familiar with and
that's what i like using now for drawing apps android is improving consistently we've had clip
studio paint for several years now which i just love and on the 15 inch screen of the tab s8 ultra
it is so good it is so good i have gone on and on about it before i probably will again i i think it
works so well on a tablet crit is also out there for android now too that also looks really good
on this large screen it's a free open source painting app really nice plus there's a whole
smattering more streamlined smaller apps out there like concepts or ibez paint x or infinite paint
all right so is there a winner well the winner is samsung because no matter which one you pick
samsung gets your money for me which one is better for drawing well like i said earlier
i prefer drawing on a tablet it's just it feels more fun to me it feels more organic and natural
just the way it's designed to work with touch screens and the pens are just very organic but
if you need those windows apps they're definitely there for you and that's where a laptop comes in
i think it comes down to if you need a pc but you don't need a ton of power this is a really
good choice and you can draw on it i was genuinely surprised how many people came out and said okay
brad which one should i get and my answer is i i have no idea because the real answer is
how are you going to use it and i can't answer that question for you only you're going to really
understand what you need it for so hopefully this video was helpful in that regard so let me know
down below in the comments what choice would you make or what things have hai not considered when
comparing these two devices thank you all for watching and i'll talk to you in a couple of days