Hey guys, how's it going? So, I got a

big one for you today. This is the

Galaxy Book Ultra 2026 model. They've

completely redesigned this laptop

compared to when I used to compare

Samsung laptops. And if you've seen

those videos, I was a little bit iffy

about them. I was under the impression

that unless you really care about the

Samsung ecosystem, I would skip those

laptops. But man, Samsung has crushed

it. And I am afraid to say this, but

this is probably one of the best laptops

I have ever used. Though it is

expensive, way too expensive. Hopefully

there's sales in the future. Anyway,

let's get right into it. One reason is

the build and the design. You guys know

I always start off my videos with the

build and design because that's

incredibly important to me. I tend to go

for more premium options and because of

that, I expect a lot and this delivers.

Man, Samsung really crushed it with the

build. It is wonderful aluminum among

the best I've ever felt. MacBook level.

I know a lot of laptops have aluminum,

but they're not all created equal. This

one uses a thick gray that feels almost

always cold to the touch. And because of

that, there is not any flex at all, even

on the center of the lid, which is

really difficult for a lot of laptops to

pull off. And this one does it

fabulously. The back is the same

aluminum, and it's got a nice texture to

it, too. The texture is the same

throughout. Even on the keyboard deck,

the only time where things start to

differ is the keyboard deck area. It is

black and it is different, but this is

also aluminum, too. You can feel the

cold metal, even though it is a

different color. And it is a cutout. It

is still the same high quality aluminum

with no flex at all to the keyboard.

I'll come back to the keyboard deck and

the trackpad a little bit later on, but

just wanted to tackle the build.

Incredibly well done. I I want to come

to the back here. There's no visible

screws. I haven't really messed around

with that. In terms of opening up this

laptop, I'm assuming you may have to

remove these rubber feet to do so.

They're going for a clean look that

doesn't have any exposed screws. You may

like that or you may not like that, but

it is a very clean look even though you

do have these intakes because this does

push a decent amount of power. This does

have an RTX 560 in it. And I'll talk

about performance a little bit later on.

But one thing I will say though, and I

know Macs do this, I don't like these

rubber feet in particular. I like when

there's more of like a bar across the

entire laptop. It just provides more

grip. Like when it's on your lap, it

just seems to slide down less. The Max

do this, too. And I really hate on the

Max. At least these do provide a little

bit of grip. Part of the build is the

hinge. And you already saw me open it.

It's incredibly easy to open. One hand,

no problem. Despite there's not being

too much tension. It's really easy to

open and close. This is a touchcreen and

even though it is a touchcreen, there's

not much wobble as you are using it. A

little bit that you able to pick up on

the screen. It's just because of this

angle, but from my viewpoint, I am not

seeing any wobble at all as I use this

touchcreen. Maybe a little bit when you

press too hard, but much better than

most other laptops. All right. And now

to the design aspect of it. This Samsung

logo, I find it to be weird. I saw a lot

of other reviews praising this. It just

seems off-putting that it's on the

bottom of the laptop when you're looking

at it. I guess I would have just

preferred it in the center or maybe not

even at all. But thankfully, I can just

cover it up with a sticker if I do end

up keeping this laptop. And I'm and I'm

very much considering it. And another

thing that's done very well, let's see

if you could hear this.

Oh man, even when you close the laptop,

it sounds incredibly satisfying. You go

from the very smooth tension of the

hinge to where it just automatically

snaps in place. I mean, this is the kind

of stuff that Samsung is really good at

when it comes to their foldables and

their phones, etc. So, really, really

good attention to detail throughout.

It's unbelievable how better the build

and the design is overall compared to

Samsung's previous attempts at laptops.

All right, enough gushing over this

stuff. Let's talk about the actual

practicality of using this laptop. And

we'll start off with the keyboard. This

is where things might not be perfect.

Even though this is an overall great

laptop, the keyboard is just fine. It's

good in many ways. So, I don't usually

script my videos, but there's a lot of

little details I've noticed about this

Samsung. I usually put them in a whole

bunch of bullet points and I tackled

them, but by the time I was done, I

pretty much had an entire script. The

reason why I'm mentioning that is I did

that entire thing on this keyboard. And

you know, at first the the the keyboard

travel is very shallow. I don't know how

much millimeters it is, but it is very

short. Might take some getting used to,

but once I did, I found myself typing

away. No problem. I've always felt that

Samsung keyboards felt cheap or they

felt like mushy and almost like rubbery

and membraney, like when they felt kind

of rubbery or siliconey. This actually

requires a good amount of force to press

down which does help with the travel

kind of offsets it to make it feel a

little bit more premium. I have found

that when I was typing for a long time

over time the actuation force is a

little bit stiff. I did find my fingers

getting a bit fatigued after a while but

I'm sure that's something that I can get

used to over time. Overall the keyboard

is fine. They did lose the number pad

which I know a lot of people might like.

I deal with numbers for a living, so I'm

not a fan. But by doing that, they're

able to have these big girls to the

side, and wow, do they sound good. Among

the top five in last place, but still

manages to be top five. Let's take a

quick listen.

>> Okay, first of all, it gets incredibly

loud. One of the loudest out there,

which I'm really happy about. It does

use Dolby to process the sound and Dolby

is among the best out there. When you're

playing games, especially when you use

the dynamic mode or the movie mode, the

surround sound effect is incredibly wide

and sparse. It almost makes it seem like

there's sounds coming from all around

you. If you've used any laptop with

Dolby Atmos in it, then you know what

I'm talking about. This one is a very

good representation of that. All right,

really quickly. We got to spend some

time talking about this trackpad. It is

gigantic, very, very large, and it does

not need to be this big. I'm probably

using like 80% of the trackpad at any

given time, but there's no way I'm using

it at all. And not many times, but it

has happened a few times where I've had

some mishaps where the palm rejection of

the trackpad wouldn't exactly do its job

and the mouse will start to click

around. Not that much though. Not enough

to really bother me. I'm just mentioning

it because it happened a few times. I

mean, that could be offset with some

future firmware revisions. And Samsung

has been constantly updating this ever

since I got it over the past few weeks,

but it could have just easily been

handled better by not having such a

large trackpad. And by having such a

larger trackpad, the entire keyboard

deck ends up being large. And as a

result, and I'll talk about this a

little bit later on when I get to the

display section is the bottom bezels are

end up being very tall. So in terms of

the design, I should have probably

mentioned that earlier that the bezels

overall aren't especially thin. And that

bottom bezel, oh man, a bit a bit of

sore eyes there. Coming back to the

trackpad, even though it's large, this

is the best trackpad that Samsung's ever

made. It is haptic and it does a good

job of simulating a press with this

vibration motor. Very happy about it. It

does feel a little bit shallow though. I

know there's no real travel, but the way

the motor is designed, it just feels

like it's a very shallow press. I guess

it helps match the shallow keyboard, but

overall tracking is very good and fast.

It wasn't at first. Thankfully, there

were some day one updates from Samsung

that address that. And the overall

latency of this trackpad is very fast

and I find I could be very precise when

I need to with this. Okay, ports. I

don't want to make this too boring.

You're covered with just about

everything you will need. I do like to

see one USB type-C port on each side

depending on if you dock from the left

or the right side. That would make

things a lot more convenient for you.

And one thing you may be noticing is

there is no proprietary charger. So,

that means this entire laptop has to be

powered by 140 watts because that's all

that these USB type-C ports allow, which

is nice, and I'll tackle that a little

bit more in the performance section.

There are some trade-offs with that. The

good thing is is you don't have to bring

a proprietary charger, and you're not

going to get a lot of performance loss

by not using that dedicated charger, but

then as a result, you're just naturally

not going to get as much performance as

you would with a higher watt charger.

And again, talk I'll talk about that

more when I get to the performance

section. One thing to point out is there

is no Windows Hello with the IR cameras.

We everything is done through the

fingerprint reader. And after using

both, I definitely prefer the

fingerprint reader cuz I'm not always

looking directly in front of my laptop.

And just being able to press my finger

on it really, really makes things handy.

And it is incredibly fast, too. I think

this is the best implementation of a

fingerprint reader I've ever used on a

Windows laptop. Okay, software, which is

not something I typically cover in my

laptop videos, but I do want to spend

some time with this one because it's a

very good implementation of it. There's

a quick settings in the system tray.

Almost looks like it's a Windows

settings, but they're specifically

related to Samsung. So, you can turn on

that Dolby Atmos. Like I mentioned,

there's different options. But what I

really like is you can change the

different performance modes on the fly

without even having to open up the

software. I feel like every single

laptop should do this. So you could

block the camera. Yeah. And there's just

some other cool stuff there. Really,

really, really good idea. So, let's just

look at the rest of the settings really

quickly. I'm not going to spend too much

time on it because it it's just very

simple. So, because I have Galaxy Buds,

they are paired to this device. So,

really good integration with some of the

systems. I've done a Samsung Eco video

system in the past. If you want to check

that out, I'll leave it down below. But

so yeah though the rest of the settings

are very standard if you've used a

Samsung product in the past a good

amount of features and a very easy

software to use. All right since we're

in this section let's talk about the

display really quickly. Since I started

this channel I probably said this a

total of maybe five or six time but this

is the best display I have ever seen on

a laptop. The resolution is super high.

It's 2880 by 1880 at 16 in. And even

though this does have an unusual

subpixel layout, which most OLED laptops

tend to have, because the resolution is

so high, I'm not able to visibly see any

type of text fringing. Everything still

looks very sharp and fine details are

still presented nicely, which is

something that OLED laptops tend to

suffer with. So, I think this is the

perfect resolution at 16 in. the colors

and the calibration is spoton, but for

me, I did have to go into the settings

and crank the color tone all the way up

to the warmer setting. And once I did

that, I got a very accurate profile. So,

accuracy was very nice. And Samsung

offers several different presets

depending on what you're doing. There's

a DCIP3 movie mode, Adobe RGB, sRGB, and

the native. And also, there's an auto

mode, which is supposed to switch things

over. I just been leaving it in auto

mode. And yes, the colors are clamped

depending on which profile you use. So

very nicely done. But anyway, coming

back to the quality of the display

itself. The colors are very nicely

presented. This is definitely Samsung's

best implementation of their OLED panel.

I don't know if all their laptops are

going to be getting it this year or

Samsung Display is only giving Samsung

electronics their best stuff yet. But I

wouldn't be surprised if you're seeing

the same display in all the laptops. And

it just gets incredibly bright, too. I'm

going to assume that in SDR it goes up

to close to 500 nits, maybe a little bit

more. But there is a special mode. When

you take this outside, there is an

ambient light sensor on it. And the

moment it detects sunlight or incredibly

bright lights, it goes up to over a,000

nits. You can see me taking this

outside. I'm in the shade. that when I

get into the sun, the laptop almost

turns black. That's because even 5 or

600 nits isn't good enough to combat

bright sunlight, especially with a

reflective display, which I'll talk

about in a second. But you can see all

of a sudden Samsung flips on this mode

where the display gets incredibly

bright. And I know there's a bit of

flicker on my footage there because it

was such a bright day. I had to have a

high shutter speed to be able to capture

this. But because of that, I can

actually use this laptop just about

everywhere in every situation in dark

rooms, medium rooms, and and even

outdoors, which is something that I

could have only done on the Mac. And I

know I keep on comparing this to the

Mac. I spent most of last year using a

Mac, even though I don't like Mac OS,

but their hardware was just so good.

It's really nice to see Samsung and

Windows in general catching up in so

many of these areas. And the display is

fairly anti-reflective. It just does a

very good job of bouncing away bright

lights and it still manages to be

glossy. So, it's the best of both

worlds. Really, really awesome panel

overall. All right, so let's talk

performance. If you are looking for a

performance workhorse, this isn't your

laptop. And that's okay. The good thing

about Windows is there's just lots of

options because Samsung went for a

lighter package. This thing only weighs

4.1 lbs. one of the lightest laptops out

there with a dedicated GPU. And on top

of that, like I mentioned earlier, the

USB port only supports 140 watts of

charging. So, you're not able to push

120 watts to the RTX 560 in this and

then another 3040 watts to the new Intel

Core Ultra 3 series chips. There's just

going to be tradeoffs. And but as a

result, I still found the performance to

be very good. So, let's just start off

with Cinebench single core. The Samsung

is holding its own in terms of the CPU

performance compared to everything else.

Yes, of course, the HP Omnibook X is

destroying it, but that is a that is a

much thicker and heavier laptop that

almost deserves a dedicated GPU in it.

But the Samsung's not losing by much. I

know. Okay, fine. But if you're going to

compare it to the MacBooks, those are

just better chips when it comes to

running Cinebench in single core. So

there's nothing that Samsung could do

about that. That just requires these

chipmakers to get better. Now let's look

at multicore, which is important for if

you're doing more intensive tasks like

even me running my spreadsheets and

stuff as an accountant. I notice myself

using the multicore a lot and also if

you're going to be using this for

creative tasks and the Samsung is

actually beating out the HP Omnibook.

It's beating out the Razer Blade 16 from

last year. Remember this is just a CP

only test. is beating out just about

every single thin and light laptop out

there obviously except for the Ryzen 9

395 AI which uses about 70 70 to 80

watts on just the CPU alone and same

with the MacBook Pro. These Intel Core

Ultra Series 3 chips are meant to only

go up to 45 watts. So Intel doesn't make

these chips to use double the amount of

power that the top leading laptops here

are. But in terms of Samsung, it is

doing incredibly well. So now let's look

at the GPU. And this is using a 5060.

And this is when you might start to see

other laptops do better. The Samsung is

in close to last place here because that

RTX 560 just isn't able to get as much

power as the other laptops out there.

But you know what? It still does fine.

And now let's look at a gaming

benchmark, which is just Steel Nomad

Light. has become my favorite one

because I find it to be very

representative of what actual laptops

would perform like and I have a lot more

devices that I've tested this on and the

Samsung has done a good job holding its

own. One thing I want to compare this to

especially is the new Lenovo Legion 7A

and I need to do a review of that. Get

subscribed if you want to see it. that

also has a 5060, but because that ships

with a 245 watt charger, the GPU is able

to do a good amount better and it is

noticeable in games. Speaking games,

I've been using this a lot to game with,

and it's been such an enjoyable

experience. The overall system latency

is very low, so it's just as immersive

as playing with a dedicated gaming

laptop. The performance again isn't as

high as you could possibly get, but man,

I'm I'm able to play all my AAA games

that I'm playing through right now.

Resident Evil Reququum with Path Tray

enabled at high settings, messing around

with different DLSS options, I'm able to

get like 45 to 60 frames per second,

depending on how much you want to mess

around with the different settings. And

I find 45 frames per second to be very

suitable for me. Everybody's different.

One good thing about this display is it

does support a variable refresh rate

from 30 all the way up to 120 hertz. So

that's why 30fps can start to seem very

smooth on this laptop because it is

using variable refresh rate. A lot of

them go from 45 Hz or higher, even 60 Hz

or higher. So being covered with

variable refresh at only 30 FPS just

makes this entire system feel a lot more

smooth. If you're somebody who does not

need to play at 120 fps, 200 fps, and

you're somebody like me who's actually

very fine with playing most games at 45

fps or higher, you can run everything in

high settings, and I think you're going

to have a good experience with this. The

battery starts to go down really fast

once you start pushing it. But USB

charges it just fine. So like I can just

have a whole bunch of USB chargers all

around the house cuz they're fairly

inexpensive. a dedicated proprietary

charger. For most other laptops are like

200 bucks plus. So everywhere I go, I

have easy access to a charger and I'm

just bringing control with me and I'm

gaming all over the place. So this makes

this a lot more portable of a gaming

laptop than a lot of the other ones out

there and I really appreciate that. And

in terms of the overall surface

temperatures, they haven't been too bad.

when I'm gaming on my lap, like the back

of the laptop here would get a little

bit hot and I would just have to

reposition a little bit, but it is not

unbearably hot as most other laptops

I've used. The keyboard deck doesn't

really get that hot either. So, it's

just a very good immersive experience.

And coming back to those speakers, wow,

gaming on these speakers has been

incredible. I haven't been needing to go

to a gaming headset as much. I so I

start off this video by saying that this

is one of the best laptops I have ever

used and I just and and it's and I don't

know how much I portrayed that here. I

went through a lot of objective findings

in this video, but the overall package

just makes this a very compelling

product. It's one of those things where

the sum of the parts is greater than the

whole. You're getting among the best

build in the industry. A good keyboard,

haptic trackpad, which you don't see

much on Windows laptops, the best screen

I've ever seen, good thermals, good

performance, just it's just too

expensive right now. This is This is

like $3,000 on Samsung's website. You

got to wait for a sale. This should this

should honestly be like a 2,00 maybe 222

20 maybe 25 or $2,600 laptop because of

the premium build quality. But once the

price on this goes down, I have no

problem recommending this. And I've

never really said that about a Samsung

laptop. So there's probably a lot I

didn't cover. This video is going to be

longer than my other videos because

there's like a lot of little notes that

I just had to take while using this

laptop. There's a whole there's so much

attention to detail. All right, enough

gushing over this laptop. I absolutely

love it. And because I am gushing over

this laptop so much, I may or may not

use affiliate links cuz I don't want you

guys to think that I'm trying to sell

you a laptop. So, I just want you guys

to know like I'm just trying to be

honest here. I bought this with my own

money. Samsung did not send this to me.

This is just my real opinions. And if

you go back and you look at my other

videos, I don't really I don't really

get that excited these days over a

laptop, but this just does so much right

and I can't wait to continue to use it.

All right, thanks guys and I'll see you

guys in the next one. by