I Tried Samsung's Flagship Laptop (Galaxy Book4 Ultra Review) 

Best laptop ever but you use a macbook lol. what a fucking joke of a review

"MacBooks obviously don't do that." Other than the fact that macOS forces the installation of a half dozen apps that are paid (News, TV, iCloud, etc)

This was really helpful, thanks dude. I've got an M1 Max MBP 14 right now, and it's great, but I have an S24 Ultra and a Tab S9 Ultra, so I've been thinking about getting one of these - but it kinda sounds like I should stick with the MacBook. TBH, this comment was a more useful factor in the decision than the video was.

@MikeStevens Honestly, I'd have kept the laptop if I could, but the key deciding factor for me was simply the battery life. It was atrocious. Barely three hours SOT, and that's on Quiet mode. The hardware is all there. It's a 16" laptop that's lighter, smaller, and thinner than an equivalent MacBook Pro, with *much* more powerful GPU power, and simply _the_ best display I've ever seen on a laptop. All that means nothing though, when I pull my laptop out at the Starbucks and find it a dead brick. Apple sold me on Apple Silicon's battery life. I'll swap back to Windows the second an equivalent comes out.

​@skyscall What laptop would you recommend? I like the best of the best at a reasonable price.

@@Blinx777 For one, the 2024 ROG Zephyrus G16 is better in *every single way* than the Galaxy Book4 Ultra at a slightly cheaper price. Thinner and lighter, more GPU power, bigger batteries, more ports, more powerful CPU options; and so on.

@skyscall Thanks! I will look into it.

To my knowledge the screen is not anti reflective

@@tytownsend8219your knowledge is incomplete

​@@tytownsend8219 I have the GB4U and the screen IS anti-reflective and amazing.

Exacttly. Make it thicker. Put a larger battery. Remove that numpad. Haptic Touchad. Also, the touch pad is stupidly large. Six speaker system. That's how you make an ultra laptop. Also, air pulling down from bottom is the worst way of cooling for an ultrabook. Samsung should do airflow similar to how Dell XPS and Macbooks do.

The added thickness would also grant the Windows advantage of being to game on it, similar to a Razer laptop.

@@obviouspresmaga Yeah. I am not asking them to make it stupidly thick like MSI laptops. But certainly they can make it like Razer Blade and Asus G16 kind of.

​@@lostalraedythere is no need to remove numpad, it might not be useful while playing but it's always better to have it, especially in a laptop that you can bring to work

@@cunctator7622 Not really. Just look at Asus G16 and MacBook Pro 16. They just look more elegant than galaxy books.

Yeah the chin is a bit antiquated in my opinion, but at least the top bezel doesn't have a notch

@MikeOBrienMedia considering samsung is the company pushing screen to body ratio and thin bezels in smartphones, it's shocking they can't leverage that tech in their computing environment

Still betterthan notch

@theworldoffun8997 nah the thick chin on the bottom is worse than a tiny notch especially on such a large display, you don't even notice the notch. I have a tab s8 ultra and don't notice the notch

​@@theworldoffun8997Yes. I Never Buy Device with notch!!! I'm Anti notch Person!!! 👍🏻😎👍🏻

I have the same setup. Honestly, the screen, battery, keyboard, and touchpad on the MBP 14 are just way superior and this Samsung just doesn't compete.

U can use the personalizazed pen... bro didint do his research

@@koke6126 the what pen?

@@Han_Moz the S pen, if u go to the actual website of samsung theres 1 that says comes with the S pen

Would u say the Ultra 4070 is worth it?

​@@Blinx777 I'd say skip this gen of laptops if you don't need to upgrade now. I am rooting for Samsung to bring down the price of Apple's MacBooks but they are just becoming Apple themselves with these prices. If you need to, the 4070 base is great and make sure to buy on sale. The 3K OLED screen is great

Definitely should wait, the second hand market of my country have tons of book 3 ultra 16gb 1tb for about 2000ish

For the price it's not worth it, the value it has is the screen and the software, the cooling and power delivery is poor for the price.

​@@steveguy3 Cooling that 4070 under load is gonna heat that laptop up

Same, i also have book 4 pro ultra 5

You can remove McAfee. Windows defender is good enough.

@@themba_kazima i already did in my Galaxy Book 4 Pro

@@themba_kazima I did remove McAfee and went through all the "Are you really sure?" and "you are taking a big risk" nonsense. As the reviewer said, it should not have been there, Of all the bloatware, McAfee was the most annoying and obnoxious.

​@woofinu it's hella annoying

really？

I play some games on mine and it doesn’t overheat it makes a bit of noise at first but that’s pretty much it

​@@brandonmorales5123 I remember from using my father's Samsung Book3 They had buttons to set the laptop fans to Silent, Quiet, Balanced, and High Performance. Try setting on Quiet. Keeps quiet and keeps most performance

Book 5 Pro will be great with Intel Lunar Lake. Already leaked.

Absolutely what I'd do, too. I bought a MacBook Pro just because it was so glaringly obvious that ARM is the future of computers. If X Elite comes close or beats Apple Silicon, I'd switch back in a heartbeat.

​@@skyscallsoon whole world will see when Intel and AMD will launch their new chips in computex 2024.

Need tools for that with most, unless you've got long nails

@@steveguy3 Yeah I know, right?

Right on Samsung's website they boast about the cooling system in terms of using it for gaming so it is likely just fine, however you can easily find another laptop with a 4070 for less than half the price of Samsung's if you're going for a gaming laptop. Although generally I'm not sure who really needs a laptop of this caliber other than some specialty jobs or Samsung's ecosystem

They boast about their cooling system on every device. Doesn’t mean shit

Just set the mode to Silent or Quiet. Prevents overheating

Yeah I traded in a spectre for this. They are not comparable. Avoid HP like a plague. Plus if you have a samsung phone and tablet, it's a no brainer

OEMs and Intel have an incestous relationship fostered over many years, so who knows what deals are done. It means AMD do not get a look in. Thankfully MS has backed WOA so ARM chips look like thye may have a chance to prosper. I think even Windows OEMs are fed up with Intel these days!

I can't tell if your reply is irony. As a book3 pro 360 user and ex macbook pro user, the keyboard is amazing, numpad is a MUST HAVE on laptops and the trackpad is better than a macbook one.

@@Highest I disagree totally, but that is just my honest opinion.

I got my Galaxy Book 4 Pro ultra 5 125H for 1085 dollars including taxes. ₹108490 is the actual price. I am getting 11 hours of Amazon Prime video SDR video playback and 8 hours 22 minutes in HDR video playback using Apple TV "Foundation" series.

@@HDRPC That is a reasonable price, the equivalent of £1250 in the UK! We have to buy the Galaxy Book4 (non-Pro) to get that sort of price.

@@andyH_England it will be 1042 uk price. My price has 18% tax included.

To be fair, every laptop sounds worse than a MacBook.

When you say it like that, it does sound pretty crazy

I agree with your statements lol

No, there’s two separate lines. First is Galaxy Book, Book Pro, and Book Ultra. And second is the Galaxy Book 360 and Pro 360. You’d need an Ultra 360 if you wanted what you’re looking for. And I guess the people who want a video editing/gaming machine wouldn’t care as much about the 2-in-1 functionality. Like, you wouldn’t complain that the S20 Ultra didn’t have an S Pen, since that’s what the Note 20 Ultra is for. The S and Note series are different, just like how the Book and Book 360 series are different

@@IceBlueLugia They Released s20 ultra and then Note 20 ultra and then realised that an ultra means, can do it all device, has all the features device but s20 didn't have all the features unlike note 20 ultra which indeed had all the features which is why the true ultra, the note ultra got merged with fake ultra the s ultra and thus become a s ultra with all available features and capacities thus a true ultra I guess you are not getting the definition of the ultra, which means can do it all because if has it all by your 2 line logic they can create an another fake ultra where one line of ultra will have high end cpu's only like samsung book cpu ultra where it will have all ultra 9 processor while an another lineup of samsung gpu ultra where it will have nvidia 4090 gpu's, did you see here how ultrs name has become useless if we have to keep the prefix of cpu ultra and gpu ultra the job of the word ultra is to say, ther is no need to think about does this device has all this features or not in his name or in this specifications a prefix ultra to a device says it all that it has all the features available and so it has it all and can do it all if the prefix ultra need to have a one more prefix of 360 ultra according to you, then my friend you don't know the meaning of the word ultra 🤦‍♂️🤣

@@Manikanta.Rapolu​​⁠​⁠You wrote out all this bullshit based on what you assumed the Ultra means. You provided no source or anything that Ultra means “do it all” lol. You have zero evidence to believe that Ultra means that, yet the S, Note, and Book naming schemes all say otherwise; you aren’t Samsung, your idea of what Ultra means is meaningless. Your rant about a CPU and GPU Ultra is just hilarious lol, that’s never been a distinction between types of Ultras. The Note line was killed to make room for the folds as their alternate flagship and because it was generally redundant. Not because Ultra means “do it all” or whatever you imagined There are even rumors about a Fold 6 Ultra. I guess the S24 Ultra will be a fake Ultra then lol

It’s so you don’t need an adapter to connect to a projector.

I agree. USBC/Thunderbolt is universal and it is dumb to waste a port on ancient HDMI. The EU has requested laptop makers to move away from proprietary ports like HDMI, so they will eventually cease.

😂

@@MikeOBrienMedia just giving ya 💩 😉

McAfee Bloatware going ham. But, I am certain that your issues aren't from Samsung themselves. Well unless you dissprove me. Samsung's build quality is usually one of the best and same goes for their laptops. Either you were buying from the local Samsung store which didn't handle the laptop with care, second hand seller which might have done the damage, or you done the damage yourself

​@@ImJustSomeoneNamedLucas I bought it directly from Samsung. My issues were common and I even sent it in twice for repair. I've had zero issues with other Samsung products: s23 ultra, tab s9 ultra, tab s8 ultra, s6 lite, pro5 watch, s21, zflip4, watch4. I can't blame Windows either. I moved on to a legion Laptop and it was smooth as butter.

@@TechAfterThoughts Shit Samsung issues in their quality control then

Gift would like to get iphones15pm

are you a skibidi sigma with rizz in ohio

nope it was me

FISRYT

True but Macs can't run a lot of engineering programs and games so.

Opinions are opinions. They both have different advantages and disadvantages

Yeah dude I love my Apple products. My Galaxy S24 Ultra that I use everyday, my Galaxy Buds2 Pro, my Galaxy Tab. All made by Apple. I'm a hardcore fanboy

nah his review is acc pretty nice, i would say even biased towards samsung cause i wouldnt advise for this laptop tbf

@@MikeOBrienMediaI think you forgot about the galaxy watch 6 by Apple Inc

Never buy a laptop from a washing machine and TV manufacturer 😂

I would have said that a couple years ago, but the Book 3 line showed that they were becoming serious contenders, as far as premium work laptops are concerned. I wouldn’t pay a premium price for their lower end models, but I think those ones are priced reasonably. Samsung also has great trade-in deals.

My Book Pro 1 is still running really well today, never had a problem with it...

@@adequatequality Well that washing machine and TV manufacturer also makes phones, tablets, tanks, ships, hospitals,roads,the fucking bhurj khalifa, military guns, etc

@@shivanshshivi811 Which is why I avoid buying any portable tech from them. They make good appliances but that’s about it

wtf no.