Samsung has announced updates to its flagship Galaxy Book notebooks for 2023, including a new addition called the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra. This is Samsung’s answer to the 16-inch MacBook Pro — a top-of-the-line beast of a laptop with as much as an Nvidia RTX 4070 and Intel’s 13th generation Core i9 processor.
Samsung has shied away from a larger, more powerful laptop, making the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra particularly noteworthy. It’s not a little though. The 16-inch laptop is 0.65 inches thick and weighs 3.9 pounds. That’s big for a Samsung laptop, but it’s actually more than half a pound lighter than a 16-inch MacBook Pro — to put things into perspective.
Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra Joe Maring/Digital Trends
There is much more of interest here than sheer size. These are the first Samsung laptops to accept the 16:10 aspect ratio, which allows companies to reduce the size of the bottom and top bezels. Samsung is among the latest companies to do so, having retained 16:9 in the Galaxy Book 2 Pro.
It’s nice to see, and the top bezel looks particularly polished here. Even still, the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra manages to squeeze in a 1080p webcam.
As you can probably tell, the Book 3 Ultra also has a curved display, which is something we’ve only seen on a handful of laptops, such as the MacBook Pro and Surface Laptop Studio. Speaking of the screen, the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra has an AMOLED panel with a 120Hz refresh rate and a resolution of 2880 x 1800. It’s rated for 400 nits of brightness or 500 nits for HDR content.
There is also a decent selection of ports. You get two Thunderbolt 4 ports, one USB-A, HDMI 2.0, a microSD card slot, and a headphone jack.
The keyboard also includes a number pad on the right and a massive off-center touch pad below.
But the performance is what really stands out here. Your graphics options are the RTX 4050 or 4070, with a choice of Core i7 or Core i9 processors and 16GB or 32GB of RAM. Storage options, on the other hand, are 512GB or 1TB, although one expansion slot is available.
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The Galaxy Book 3 Pro and Pro 360 also benefit from many of these improvements. They have the same AMOLED screens, which include rounded corners and small bezels. They also have the same 1080p webcam. The 16-inch version of the Galaxy Book 3 Pro and Pro 360 even includes a numeric keypad on the side. The port selection is also almost identical, except that the Galaxy Book Ultra is HDMI 2.0 instead of 1.4 on the Pro notebooks.
The main difference between Pro and Ultra laptops is performance. The Ultra gives you that discrete GPU, while the Galaxy Book 3 Pro and Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 only have integrated graphics. This reduced performance allows these notebooks to be significantly thinner. In fact, the 14-inch Galaxy Book 3 Pro is one of the thinnest laptops you’ll be able to buy at 0.44 inches thick, matching the M2 MacBook Air. The 16-inch version isn’t far behind with a thickness of 0.49 inches.
On the other hand, the Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 is slightly thicker and heavier than the flip version, but the main difference is that it has a 360-degree hinge and optional 5G support.
The Galaxy Book 3 Pro will start at $1,450, available in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes, and in graphite and beige colors. The Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360, meanwhile, starts at $1,900 in just the 16-inch size with the same color options.
Lastly, the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra starts at $2,400. The entire series will be available from February 17, although it is not clear when the Ultra model will be launched.
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Source: newstars.edu.vn