you want a freaking amazing looking tv
it's gonna be oled
same with like the phone that you're
watching this on right now
probably also an oled and it looks
friggin amazing but for whatever reason
on laptops oled screens just
suck for whatever reason they give me
really bad headaches when i look at them
and just like white backgrounds and text
not good
samsung though thinks that they have
fixed that so this guy right here
apparently has
the same oled screen as they have on the
s21
wait is it s21 s-21
ultra oh it's not the same screen it's
using the same technology
wow this is one of the most engineering
sample laptops that i have received in a
while normally they at least like half
try they just threw this in a box look
at that
great packing job guys there we go
wait this doesn't look right i asked for
the 13-inch model um i think we got the
15.
now before we open it up let's just do a
quick tour first of all
this thing is super small especially
given it has
full size hdmi right there along with
what
two thunderbolt fours and on the other
side we have
full size usb type a and what looks like
a little sd
card reader so like dell what are you
doing why does everyone else say like oh
yeah we can't have full size
usb type a when like this thing's
thinner than everyone else's laptops
build quality feels pretty good this
bottom here is
very very plastic
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the overall look like it's very plain
it's just blue but it does have a real
premium
look to it that's something that like i
don't understand it's like samsung makes
these
exceptional looking phones and many
other things that are good
but until now their laptops have really
fallen behind everything else
but let's open her up
i wasn't planning on starting it right
yet but oh geez
uh so my initial impressions of the
chassis are
not the greatest ever there's a big
squish zone
right about here yeah that's a lot of
deflection and i'm not pressing very
hard
because it's on the map john west if
it's because it's on the map it's not
this is 100 the laptop
also ah dang it samsung i asked them for
the one with the touchscreen because
there's always a problem where
so you have to have like your actual
screen and then a touch screen layer
that goes over top of it
some of the oleds that don't have touch
screens look way better
on laptops than the ones that do because
it has this little like grid over top of
it that
isn't designed perfectly for oled
screens well
windows says we're almost there which
means oh wow
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i want to check out the keyboard first
just because
it feels snappy
keyboard's a bit of a disappointment
because whoever did
these switches did an exceptional job
they feel great they're super snappy you
can probably even hear it like
awesome unfortunately again the chassis
is just
a bit too flexy so getting a really good
consistent key feel is difficult when
like over here you're getting like
a millimeter or so of deflection every
time that you hit it anyway
wire actually here is the display so
let's turn this up
apparently it's display hdr 500
certified
yeah that look dave can we turn off the
light that's back there very glossy
display
wow okay there we go so if you're going
to be using this
in bright environments as we just found
out don't buy it
it's terrible i've never noticed that
there's a light back there before
when doing laptop stuff in the top down
here
my hands are reflecting in the display
and it's just
mirror-like that said if you plan on
using this
in a dark room this looks exceptional
this looks so freaking good
i shouldn't be surprised it has like
something stupid like a million to one
contrast ratio
and it's an oled display but at the same
time damn
actually where is our charger i just had
jono plug in the thing because
it looks like that the brightness is
dropping when you're going to
a full white display so like right now
it's clearly not giving me 500 nits of
brightness
whereas it pops a lot more when we have
a lot of
darker stuff on the display
nah just just wait we'll get to crab
rave john just a second i need to talk
about the screen some more
so so although you might be kind of
bummed out that on a whole
white display you aren't getting the
full brightness searing your eyeballs i
kind of like it because
in the past some oled displays have just
been too bright when you have
a full white background and it can kind
of give you headaches so it is nice that
it dips a bit but at the same time
don't use this outside ever the
uniformity
looks pretty good that's another
complaint that i had before
on oled displays on laptops like you get
kind of just this
grainy look over the whole thing when
you have
one color this looks really good there
is a tiny bit of
i guess you could call it oddness but
it's not too bad
let's watch something okay i'll do crab
rate for you jonna we'll we'll do the
speakers at the same time
so this is only a 1920 by 1080p display
so that is one of the things that i
am kind of bummed out i wish that it was
16 by 10 instead of 16x9 but like
this panel is awesome
oh my god the black levels look at that
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speakers don't have much for balls
though
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okay so the speakers are like fine on
that
but i'm actually getting the xps out
here because its display is so freaking
good
ips versus oled i believe they're both
500 nits as well so
yeah there's way more saturation on the
ips
i'll give you a quick little speaker
test here as well
this is the samsung
it's not even a competition for display
it's a hard one i'm really surprised i
figured that you'd have a noticeably
better black levels on the oled but
the ips that dell has here looks
exceptional i feel like that
just general display tuning will be the
difference between which one of these
looks better
but i am very curious about what's
actually going on in the samsung oled so
that it doesn't
look like trash other oleds on laptops
they didn't look good
this one looks exceptional let's have a
little look shall we
now it's freaking nerd out time so grab
your new microscope
which for one is way better than our old
one but also the software is hot garbage
from like 2005 so we'll see how that
goes
so first of all we're going to look at
the xps which has an ips display
we're at 90 times magnification and this
thing is
hair trigger for focus oh my god
absolute piece of junk
yeah we're seeing about 1.6 fps whoever
made this software um
am scope hello uh fix it please
but that's basically what it looks like
and now
i want to take a look at my phone which
has an oled display
and i think that it uses the kind of
cheatering method
oh no it isn't a cheatery one on old
school kind of like oled stuff
they would have it so that the blue sub
pixels were bigger
than the red and the green because it
takes way more energy
to create blue light because like
wavelengths that crap
you burn out your blue pixels way faster
than the red and the greens
so it makes sense that you would want
them to be a little bit bigger
but it can be really hard on your eyes
especially if you have like a slight
stigmatism in one of them
but as you can see the red green and
blue pixels
are all the same maybe you can't see
because this thing is having a lot of
trouble
okay that's as good as we're gonna get
on this but you get the picture
whole bunch of little dots they're all
very uniform
that is what we are looking for on the
samsung one here because if it has that
similar kind of pixel arrangement
that means they're not cheating for this
generation and i am very excited
to find out whoa this is
so weird what the
this is one of the weirdest subpixel
arrangements that i've ever seen
i feel like that they kind of took the
pixel size of a 4k display
yeah so you get the same number of red
and green and blue pixels
but it's so weird because the blues are
much bigger
and they're also sort of in a row so you
get alternating
red green red green red green red green
and then there's rows of blue
so they can be bigger and presumably
less bright in the past that's made
me feel terrible like it's given me
headaches but for whatever reason
it doesn't with this one and it must
just be because it's a 1080p resolution
4k i don't know
but i like this one and judging by the
subpixels i don't think i should
wait what
so do you remember how i was complaining
about the chassis stiffness
you can click the trackpad by pushing
the bottom
oh samsung come on
but the good news is is that samsung's
displays go into
everything like every single oled screen
in a laptop that's on the market right
now
samsung makes it this right here despite
me not really wanting to recommend this
laptop
it's not terrible it's pretty light
what's the price on it jono
this one right here has uh let's see
oh see i can't click the touchpad when
i'm holding in my hand
because it's already clicked can you
take the touchpad by just pressing down
on the body
yeah i can click the touchpad by just
pushing here
i don't have a price so we don't have a
price on this yeah if we have a price
it'll be right here
if it's like not all that expensive then
sure go for it i guess
oh it's so frustrating okay
let's have a little chat samsung this
laptop is infuriating because you got so
much of it right
this trackpad the size is great the feel
is awesome
it's really good whoever designed this
trackpad give them a raise
same with the keyboard this keyboard is
awesome the click feel
exceptional overall besides it being
french
really like it this display it's one of
the best that i've ever seen
in a laptop this chassis
it's terrible i didn't expect it to make
that sound but it really
it really brings it home just
invest in like even just a good stamped
aluminum chassis
and i would daily drive this laptop
because otherwise
it is freaking awesome this is in many
ways one of the best laptops that i've
looked at in a really long time it is so
light this display is awesome
i would daily drive it but i can't you
can't use the track pad when you're
holding it because it's clicked
that's where they're at um i don't know
if i went over the specs it has an i7 16
gigabytes of ram
uh oh this one right here actually has
5g which is freaking awesome another
thing you did great oh and jono just
told me that it's 68 watt her battery
with this processor that is going to
give you so much battery life
it's probably like 12 hours plus
then again it's an oled display but it's
1080p on a display i don't know there's
a whole bunch of different things but
you're gonna have good battery life with
this thing samsung you are
so close to creating the best laptop on
the market with this thing right here
it's like everything that the lg gram
should be minus
the good feeling of the lg gram i hope
that you enjoyed this um i want to break
up the microscope more
and am scope if you saw this fix your
webcam i will use this all the time
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