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Samsung Launches Galaxy Book3 Ultra With OLED Display, S Pen and 2-in-1 Form Factor

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Alongside new Galaxy smartphones, Samsung today introduced the Galaxy Book3 Ultra, a new premium PC with a 2-in-1 convertible form factor and included S Pen. Samsung says the Book3 Ultra is the thinnest clamshell device in its class, featuring a lightweight aluminum frame.

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The Galaxy Book3 Ultra includes a 13th-generation Intel Core i9 processor and an NVIDIA RTX Geforce 4070 GPU, and it features Samsung's Dynamic OLED 2x display, previously used for Galaxy smartphones. The display has a 3K resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate, and it is available in a 16-inch size.

There's an AI Noise Canceling feature to reduce background noise on calls and Samsung's Studio Mode offers lighting correction, auto framing, and eye contact correction for video meetings. The notebook also features a quad speaker system.

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Samsung is also introducing the Book3 Pro 360 and the Book3 Pro, two more affordable PC options. The Galaxy Book3 Pro also includes the same OLED display technology, and it is available in 14 and 16-inch sizes, while the Book3 Pro 360 has a 360 display and a 16-inch display size.

The new notebooks include Samsung Multi Control, a feature that is designed to allow Samsung users to control a PC, Galaxy Tab, and Galaxy smartphone with the Galaxy Book3 keyboard and trackpad, similar to the multi-device control that Apple offers between the iPad and the Mac.

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The new Galaxy Book3 Ultra, Book3 Pro, and Book3 Pro 360 are available for pre-order starting today, with Samsung set to launch the new machines on February 17.

Pricing on the Galaxy Book3 Pro will start at $1,450, while pricing on the Book3 Pro 360 will start at $1,700. The high-end Ultra model is priced starting at $2,200. If you're also purchasing a phone from the Galaxy S23 lineup, you can use your bonus Samsung Credit from that purchase an apply it to a Galaxy Book3 order while earning additional Samsung Credit for the Book3 purchase.

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corinthos said:
Macbook air just got blown out of the water. Samsung really dropped the hammer this time!
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13" vs 16" ??
or we dont understand you...like i said, we already know how an medium to high dGpu perform in a thin laptop with Core i9-13900H 45W
So probably even the entry level M2 Macbook air (not the 16" Mbp) after 1 minute it will be far better
Not to mention that samsung book with 4070 in use it will top 1.5h on battery....so its an laptop towards to a desktop but with laptop components in it
 
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MayaUser said:
that 4070 in that thin laptop...it will perform like an 4060
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Even if that’s the case, it’s awesome that they packed a GPU like that into a thin and light. Great gaming performance and multimedia creation performance. You really can have your cake and eat it too if you want a portable laptop that can also game on the side.
 
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Samsung is a technological pioneer, and OEM supplier to Apple.

Often Samsung tries to out-Apple Apple, in that they try to introduce new tech that Apple might be interested in before Apple does.

But being first isn't always best in tech. In fact, it rarely is nowadays.

The whole message from Apple is that it's not about being first. It's about implementing technology well, at the right time. Apple gets the luxury of picking through Samsung's "breakthrough" tech in products like this to see the stuff that's actually any good.
 
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v0lume4 said:
Even if that’s the case, it’s awesome that they packed a GPU like that into a thin and light. Great gaming performance and multimedia creation performance. You really can have your cake and eat it too if you want a portable laptop that can also game on the side.
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everybody can do that...remmeber the days with 16" Intel Mbp? but in Maya 3d modelling project that dGpu after 1 minute, started to perform like a entry level gpu
Is not worth it, and place that 4070 with that 45W intel and you got a unbalance laptop, you pay more for less performance compare to the mid spec 16" book 3
 
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I was looking at picking up one of these Galaxy Books last year, but their fatal flaw (for me) was the number pad. I use a number pad for my work, but I typically do that at my desk which has a full size keyboard. I don’t want the off centered keyboard on a laptop.

Does anyone here use the number pad on their laptops?
 
So predictable with the negative Samsung comments. Yet people will check to see if they have the better Samsung panel


or hope the rumored BOE displays are as good as the Samsung ones. Or better yet, hope the iPhone 15 they plan to buy uses an actual Samsung display.



Thanks for the 🤣
 
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MayaUser said:
everybody can do that...remmeber the days with 16" Intel Mbp? but in Maya 3d modelling project that dGpu after 1 minute, started to perform like a entry level gpu
Is not worth it, and place that 4070 with that 45W intel and you got a unbalance laptop, you pay more for less performance compare to the mid spec 16" book 3
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I guess we’ll have to wait and see what the performance numbers are. Some brands, like Lenovo, seem to have it figured out. Great performance and great thermals in a thin and light with a ~45W CPU and GPU. The competition from Windows manufacturers is really good nowadays.
 
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I guess we’ll have to wait and see what the performance numbers are. Some brands, like Lenovo, seem to have it figured out. Great performance and great thermals in a thin and light with a ~45W CPU and GPU. The competition from Windows manufacturers is really good nowadays.

I, for one, like the laptop.
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i understand, but in your link that Lenovo Intel is with a NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX™ 3050 4GB GDDR6, and that is a proper dgpu in that thin laptop
I even had an windows thin laptop that they place 4 fans in it to keep up with an dGpu 3060 and it kind of did
But like you said, we have to wait...but in general my experience is what matters in my applications and projects...and i dont know if i can test this..but i could do it and return it...but it will be nowhere near an 16" M1/2 Max Macbook pro, and that starting price as the 16" Mbp is ridiculous...or you can get a far better workstation laptop from Lenovo or Dell or an better cooling gaming laptop (depending for what are you stuck on windows)
 
Interesting that Macrumors is affiliate (advertising) partner with Samsung now. I would have thought the sheer amount of effort Samsung have put into bagging Apple on the MR Forums via Astroturfing campaigns would have left a bad taste in MR's mouths. I know it did mine as the forums became a crap show a few years back. But I guess this is all normalized now and par for the web these days, we move on.
 
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Im so glad to see Samsung "innovate" and release a drastically different phone and laptop, rather than just an iterative phone and laptop. I bet Samsung wont "throttle" the CPU and/or GPU either. 😉
 
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ducknalddon said:
I wouldn't trust a PC from Samsung.
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That's what everybody said when I got mine. The machine lasted solid 8 years with no problem. It is still around in the hands of a young cousin.

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Plus Windows is garbage now.
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Why do you say so? Windows 11 is kind of annoying compared to W10, but I would not call it garbage, it has gotten pretty good actually.
 
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MayaUser said:
i understand, but in your link that Lenovo Intel is with a NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX™ 3050 4GB GDDR6, and that is a proper dgpu in that thin laptop
I even had an windows thin laptop that they place 4 fans in it to keep up with an dGpu 3060 and it kind of did
But like you said, we have to wait...but in general my experience is what matters in my applications and projects...and i dont know if i can test this..but i could do it and return it...but it will be nowhere near an 16" M1/2 Max Macbook pro, and that starting price as the 16" Mbp is ridiculous...or you can get a far better workstation laptop from Lenovo or Dell or an better cooling gaming laptop (depending for what are you stuck on windows)
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Oh, shoot, great point. I watched that video late last night, So I had forgotten I was only a 3050 in that laptop.

But nonetheless, on the GPU side of things, if I am not mistaken the M1/M2 chips don’t have particularly strong GPU offerings compared NVidia’s 30 series. I can’t recall the benchmarks off the top of my head, but I think some of the higher end M1 chips are comparable to a desktop 3050/3060? Something in that arena? And now, like in the case of this a Samsung laptop, we’re moving into the 40 series. I wonder if the GPU performance will leapfrog the higher end M2 chips.
 
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