Samsung has announced the Galaxy Book3 Ultra, a 16-inch workstation laptop with a 120Hz OLED screen, an H-Series Core i7 oregon Core i9, and an RTX 4050 oregon 4070 GPU.

Samsung makes a fig of Galaxy Book models, but this is the archetypal 1 of the past fewer years that has truly targeted the deep-pocketed nonrecreational idiosyncratic — that is, the halfway assemblage for Apple’s high-powered and wildly costly MacBook Pro 16. It’ll commencement astatine $2,399.99 ($100 cheaper than the basal MacBook Pro 16), with a merchandise day inactive to beryllium announced.

Like its siblings in the Galaxy Book3 line, a large gully of this workstation volition beryllium its screen. It’s got a 2880 x 1800 120Hz 16:10 OLED show (a invited alteration from the 16:9 panels that adorned past year’s Galaxy Book2) rated for 400 nits of brightness, and it looked rather bully successful Samsung’s demo area. I watched assorted YouTube videos, and the colors looked unusually agleam and vivid. There was a just spot of glare (it was a agleam room), but I inactive didn’t consciousness that I needed to crank the sheet up to afloat brightness successful bid to get a bully experience.

Elsewhere, utilizing the instrumentality felt beauteous akin to utilizing immoderate fig of different Samsung Galaxy Books, with a satisfyingly clicky keyboard, a creaseless finish, a high-quality build, and a compact chassis. The Ultra is 0.65 inches heavy and 3.9 pounds, which is somewhat thinner and adjacent to a lb lighter than the 16-inch MacBook Pro that Apple conscionable released — and each other being adjacent (which, of course, it is not), I’d overmuch alternatively person Samsung’s instrumentality successful my backpack.

I was capable to usage a fig of Samsung’s continuity features, including Second Screen (which allows you to easy usage a Galaxy Tab arsenic a 2nd monitor) and Quick Share (which allows you to rapidly transportation images and different files betwixt Samsung devices). For Samsung enthusiasts, those look similar useful features that aren’t excessively overmuch of a hassle to acceptable up.

The 1 diagnostic I had issues with was the touchpad — it registered immoderate of my two-finger clicks arsenic one-finger clicks and wasn’t rather picking up each of my scrolls. The units successful Samsung’s demo country were preproduction devices, truthful I anticipation this is simply a kink Samsung tin robust retired earlier the last release.

The Book3 Ultra is priced reasonably likewise to a MacBook Pro; the basal Book3 is $100 cheaper than the basal MacBook Pro 16 with the aforesaid RAM and storage. Potentially, I tin spot this slotting successful arsenic a somewhat cheaper alternate enactment for professionals with graphics-heavy workloads who are looking for thing a spot much portable than a MacBook.

Unfortunately, we don’t yet cognize however it volition stack up erstwhile it comes to artillery life. The M2 procreation of MacBooks is precise beardown connected that beforehand — and fixed that the Galaxy Book3 Ultra is moving a high-resolution screen, a power-hungry H-series processor, and a very power-hungry RTX GPU, I’m a small spot tense astir that. If Samsung tin propulsion disconnected a instrumentality that lasts astir arsenic agelong arsenic Apple’s do, fixed those factors, hats disconnected to them.