Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge Unboxing and First Impressions 

Thank you so much 😀

it has been a long day! I am ready for bed 🤣

On a tablet that would bother me but on a laptop no chin would put the screen lower and I feel like the less I have to tilt my head the better.

Probably best for the time being but the translation layer seems to be doing better than I expected so far!

which laptop did you buy :)

@@MashITTech i had bought g16 even though it's heavy it's great as hell but hella expensive in india either way thanks it was in my budget so went for it

Thanks mate

yeah, I ordered the 14 before I realised that :(

Yeah, I want to see a review on that one

Sadly I havent bought the book4 ultra :(

Just wait the next lunar lake from Intel, it's manufactured by TSMC, so it's a huge leap compared to Intel in efficiency (in desktop that doesn't really matter, you only need a bigger cooler, but in laptops you need a bigger battery for the less efficient chip)

This has a much better screen and is a great package plus an HDMI 2.1 port, the surface has better speakers, keyboard and performance at the moment so I would probably get the surface

I don't think it has pen support, unless you mean with a graphics tab. Probably check out the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360.

They have but I dont think users have received them yet. Sadly I ran out of money and couldn't afford to add the Yoga to me list :(

Yes. Just Josh is testing it live at the moment.

If you need it right now, go for book 4 ultra. The book 4 edge isn't optimized well like x86 does and can't run many apps. It will improve in future but you don't know how long it will take. The only disadvantage of book 4 ultra is weight so if you are "only" using it for general work, i recommend going for book 4 pro.

@@QUAD4600 battery life on the X86 intel is surely a factor, OP sounds like they will be commuting and using the device in varied locations

I believe it's a video issue - as in the refresh rate of the monitor can't be evenly divided into the refresh rate he's filming at (which is 60). If I had to take a guess, the refresh rate drops very low on the AMOLED panel when no content is moving on the screen - phones do this too. It saves battery but would cause flickering when looked through a camera

It seems the PWM is flickering at a slower speed on the Book4 than on the SP11. I will try and take some recordings of both panels at 240fps (the fastest my camera can manage) whilst the screens are set to 120 to test further.

Would be interesting to know what is PWM frequency on Edge vs. Surface Pro.

It was a low volume server specific SoC design by ex-Apple employees under a license agreement from ARM. Qualcomm bought their company, and converted the designs to portable/laptop applications... and got sued by ARM over allegedly breaking their licensing agreements. The niche that ARM SoC's have in portable device efficiency combined with Apple's purported reluctance to allow those engineers to develop for server applications followed by Nuvia selling out to Qualcomm and the resulting lawsuits from ARM.... it all seems fishy to me. Especially when you consider the literal BILLIONS involved and how much those ex-Apple employees profited from ARM technology ending up in Apple's competitors' hands The Snapdragon single core performance doesn't appear to be on-par with Apple's SoC's. They make up for it by simply adding more cores to improve the overall multi-core performance, but this also comes at a cost of efficiency as they also don't utilise efficiency cores, etc. Benchmark tests are also showing more heat, so I don't see how they advertise competitive battery life to the Apple products. I guess we'll find out now that they're hitting the market!

Probably this one because of the OLED screen! it is beautiful

Ok. Thanks

if it is easy to get into I will certainly open it up for you

Im heard that only the X1E-84 model hava a soldered storage, the X1E-80 have a replaceable one (also it's should be different by manufacturers, so maybe you should check some other X Elite laptops too, since there are a few one with aso 32GB RAM options, what is also doesn't exists here)

Samsung Galaxy Book 4 utilises eUFS according to the website, so it's not upgradeable Strangely, all of the reviewers make a point of chastising Apple for this and are not mentioning it for the Snapdragon products

haha thanks mate. But the auto frame just wasn't working well, I think its a bug with snapdragon as the eye correction also isn't working but these features worked well with Intels new NPUs

They announced the chip 8 months ago.. they did nothing just optimizing the things in that 8 months.. and the faster than a Macbook is a bit funny, just pick random 10 apps, and check how many cores they are using.. and face the reality, if they use only one core, the multi core score result have nothing to do with that, there are only the single core score count, which is about in pair with just M2.. but already the M4 on the market..)

I will do a proper head to head comparison soon but on initial impressions, the screen is much better on the book4 but I prefer the keyboard, trackpad and speakers on the SL7. On this alone I would take the SL7.

​@MashITTech Thanks for a quick response. Looking forward to a new comparison video.

​@MashITTech did you tey the oled sl7 or ips?

None. Just got mine yesterday and found none

@@cerioo I rewatched the promotional videos and as I understand you have to have Samsung phone with One UI 6.1 connected to have the so called Galaxy AI. Then you get to ask phone to do task using the Copilot. For example send someone a message or ask what is Lucys phone number. What Samsung's own apps are included. The Gallery, Bixby?

@@martinmagija I have a Galaxy S23 updated with the 6.1. However, I don't know how to access Galaxy AI on the PC. Maybe is not available yet? But yes it has all the Samsung apps (gallery, notes, device manager, phone, ...) PS: the problem might be that I live in Europe. So Copilot is not really present.

@@cerioo I wonder if the Gallery app on this PC is capable of upscaling photos like I can on my Fold3. I am happy the way Fold3 does it but it takes over 30 seconds for each photo and as I plan to upscale thousands of photos, it takes too much time. I wonder if the Book4 Edge can do it faster. By reading the fine print under the promotional videos I understand that what they call Galaxy AI on this PC is just phones AI features mirrored to computers bigger screen. I also wonder if you can enable Copilot by changing your region to United States and language to English. For my x86 PC this trick worked for Cortana but it does't work for Copilot.

@@martinmagija no. In the gallery on the PC there isn't the upscaling feature. As far as the region, I need to keep my country for work reasons. But I was in Australia some week ago with my Surface Pro and Copilot did not work even if I had English settings and Australia as a region.

will do

they seem to be back ordered but I will try

Haha, well if I break it then that shows it is not fit for heavy usage 😂

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there is a lot of advantages to the edge, it runs cool quiet and has amazing battery and standby but you may get the odd issue with software. The book 3 360 is also a solid laptop and if you dont need the amazing battery then this could be a sensible alternative

this is expensive because of the AMOLED screen and 512gb SSD as default (M$ start theirs with 256gb). Build is very good and it's a great overall package. Personally other than the screen I prefer the surface laptop 7. I also love Apple hardware but hate being locked into the apple upgrade prices and soldered RAM + SSD, at least with these snapdragons you can upgrade the SSD later if you wish

There is a coupon and discount for like $200 in canada, and I believe its cheaper than the Macbook Air M3 because it has more ssd storage and memory. And yes, you could have Windows on macbook air using Boot Camp.

@@thatsverysmart1535 Bootcamp only works on intel macs´, not an macs with m1/m2/m3

I just switched from Macbook pro 14", and just got my book4 edge 14" today. The screen is way way way better than Apple's super retina display, and I feel like the build quality is solid too, compared to the other Windows laptop. When I pre-ordered mine, I got $200 off and also a 65" 4K TV which is quite a deal for me.

@@thatsverysmart1535 Apple in the US currently offers up to $350 off most of their Macbook M3 lineup. Making them very competitive. This includes 16GB variants. On Amazon as Apple rarely discounts on the Apple Store.

Because I hate AI 😂 I will cover it in the full review

I hope to have the complete review done next week🤞

@@MashITTech will be waiting for it

This is a review video

... and storage is eUFS, so it's also not user-replaceable, which the reviewers are not mentioning

Don't let the marketing team fool you.. it's only better in multi core score, but 99,9% of the apps are single core, where is slower like a Macbook (also you can guess which one can drain more battery the 4 power cores or the 12 power cores..? That 12 power cores actually close to the M1 Ultra what had 16 power cores.. and they needed almost the same amount of power cores just to compete the basic chip with 4 power cores.. so this faster than a Macbook is actually a big fat lie, even your games are running on single core, so which one is faster the 2400-2700 or the 2900-3100..?)

@TamasKiss-yk4st well idk about m3 pro but seems like x elite 84 can beat Apple M3 in multi core both in cinebench and geekbench and slightly worse in single core but tbh not reallly big gap like the multi core. And yes i agree on that m3 still does perform better in battery life but book 4 edge is more optimized to most apps or games than macbook do.

These chips are always massively over hyped which is a shame as it often kills them on launch. Once I have had a few days hands on time I am hoping to be able to provide a bit more insight as to whether these will actually be useful on windows. I dont think its going to be the apple silicon's success story thats for sure

Saw a youtuber use a asus vivobook s15 with the new snapdragon chip use it for almost 10-11hrs on a flight and it did pretty well without any charge. Dont think any other powerful processor can even come close to that in windows rn

@@rrahul8585 All intel core and AMD U chips can do the same if they are not paired with Nvidia dGPU. The core problem in the windows world has been iGPU performance, this meant most laptop manufacturers paired it with a NVidia dGPU. and NVidia has been notorious in refusing to fix their power issues. Here is the problem I see with X-elite, the iGPU is not at all impressive even compared to current gen intel core or amd. Yes, the CPU is better, but CPUs have been good enough for a long time. The bottle neck has been GPU and efficiency. X-elite improves on CPU that is not needed but falls behind GPU. While also lacking video encoding accelerator you can find in Intel. It feels like a very unbalanced Chip to be asking for that premium. Same battery life, worse GPU, no encoding hardware accelerators, compatibility penalty/issues, but very good CPU. I think lunar lake has a better balance, it would be much behind in CPU probably only competing with AMD U series chip, but much better GPU and likely will be just as efficient in CPU and battery life if not better given the on-package ram.

​@@rrahul8585 Exactly

Apple still hords the most advanced nodes from TSMC. TSMC will eventually plateau and everything will be on lets say 2nm. Once that happens, M chips, Ryzen chips, Intel chips, and Qualcomm chips will all be about the same. No one will care whether you are getting 18 or 20 hours of battery life. I agree Lunar Lake will probably be close enough in battery and performance without the need for emulation. Imagine next year Microsoft selling a Lunar Lake Surface Pro for Business and a Snapdragon Surface Pro.

No

Compared to what? There are many X elite laptops. Choose the best and compare with Mac book

@The_Idea_of_Dream_Vision when you understand the difference between the fan noise and the fanless device, you will know where is the M3 better, but a hint for you, the cooler is required to cool down the even hotter chip, and why is hotter? Because it's use more power, alias deplete the battery noticeably faster, with about the same or even less performance (you know that if the 99,9% of the apps are single core apps, so you need to compare the single core score not the multi core score..? 😂)

@@TamasKiss-yk4st using M1 now but again you have to try as many models first from different brands before concluding.

hahaha so true

Yes, I have bought three Galaxy Book devices, all new, at around half price on eBay over the last few years.