Samsung Galaxy Book Pro

since there is still no thread here, nobody is buying samsung notebooks anymore??

i have the normal 15" pro model, not the 360.
mostly i bought it because of the weight and the amoled display.
both dont disappoint. what does disappoint is again with this model the ****ty fan, even when you do little to nothing or just a movie it starts spinning. and when it spins there is a totally annoying high pitch whistle sound. no idea if this i by design or just my samsung.
absolutely inacceptible, cant believe this. how can this go into production if that is not only my specific nb!

otherwise i would be okey with this for now.

also charging via usb-c is somehow capped at around 30w it seemes?
somebody knows a solution for this? is it the driver maybe?


also there are no drivers or firmware on the webpage.
anybody knows if one can get all the drivers, especially for config software/keys/fan modes seperately?

edit: starting the samsung update lets you also download the drivers to a folder first..

 

I was considering buying one simply because of the screen but after my experience with Chrome OS, I will never be touching anything which has Chrome OS on it. Basically, it's just a big phone with a keyboard, you can't really use it for anything productive other than watching some movies and browse the web and some social media this is my experience only so....

Chrome OS - What a disappointment

 

this is a normal windows model, nothing to do with chrome!

 

ohh my bad

I just checked Samsung's website, they haven't listed any drivers yet, just the user manual.

 

Samsung hasn't posted drivers on their website in many years. You have to download them using the Samsung Update utility (formerly called SW Update). Check the following from our Samsung sticky:

Admittedly, I am far behind as my last Sammy is now very old (but still in service). I don't know if the linked Samsung Update utility also works for the latest models. The fact that it isn't listed on their website makes me suspect you have to use a pre-installed app to download drivers and updates.

Windows Store also lists a Samsung Update app, maybe it is the same as the linked utility.

 

I was reading a review which suggests to opt for the 13" model, which apparently is not affected by a pixelation effect due to a "low" resolution 1080 and large physical display.. I am not sure if the reviewer was only complaining for a lack of 4k support or?
My current good old laptop DELL Latitude E6520 has same screen size and same resolution.... no pixelation at all.

Your thoughts?

 

I am considering the 360 5g model when it comes out but can't find any information on which 5g bands the laptop will be using to make sure my cell providers service is fully supported. Does anyone have any ideas where I might find this information? It doesn't appear to be on Samsung's US website.

 

I picked one up on the weekend (15"). Was happy enough with my xps13, but a family member has requested a new computer and initiated a hand me down procedure that see me ending up with one of these. The fan is a bit noisy especially plugged in, but I seem to have calmed it down after installing latest drivers from Samsung Update, selecting balanced fan in Samsung Settings with the audio mic box ticked and using it mainly on battery power.

I've only charged it once since it's been out the box, did seem a bit slow, but can't really comment just yet.

I'm happy enough with the screen, the vivid colours outweigh the pixel count, especially on a screen this size.

Overall though I'm happy to back with a Samsung, its very light and thin for a 15" and reminds me of my X3C days

 

Another little helpful update, the most recent bios update bricked the display brightness keys giving only 3 positons on the scale, so booted into the bios on startup and rolled it back from there. All has been well since.

Also holding out on windows 10 as I can't function without never combine on the taskbar

 

i bought also one, but i had a colorful "aura" around letters..
no idea if thats typical for oled or just that particular screen.
do you notice this too on yours?

also the opening angle with 140° is also really not my cup of tea.
and the fans were active too much when just surfing etc.
at the end i didnt keep it..

 

I've not noticed any auras no. I did think I might have had a bit of screen flickering early on, but that was just me using it in a dark room with a tv on in the background throwing my senses off.

I needed to revert back to my old laptop the other day to do something quickly, plugged it in as the battery was low and the old Dell sure did whir into life, so much so that I'm sure its actually worse than this new one. Granted the XPS runs in max performance mode vs the Sammy's optimised.

It's definately quieter now compared to how it was out the box, mostly silent as I'm running on the battery alot of the time, even plugged in now its quieter, occasionally spinning up for 30 sec's then calming back down. Out the box its was constant full speed plugged in. I've not really given it a hard time program wise. Ran a few CAD and 3D printing programs without issue, but one of the reasons for upgrading was I seem to be doing alot more video editing, although i've not had any new footage recently to give it a hard time and see what she can do! Not expecting something for nothing though, doing something like that I fully expect it to chime in and spin that fan as best it can, but at the same time as I sit here typing this its providing me with silence which is ultimately what I want from a computer: quiet but able to be powerful when needed.

 

I am 100% with you on that. I ended up moving to an HP desktop computer earlier this year, relegating my old Sammy notebook to backup use. But that's exactly my priority as well: Quiet most of the time, but have the power when I need it.

I have nothing to contribute about the Galaxy Book Pro. But please carry on the discussion and your postings

 

I've just bought a used/returned Galaxy Book Pro 13.3 and am impressed with it. It's amazingly light (885 grammes) and thin and the AMOLED screen is a pleasure to look at. The different fan profiles can be quickly accessed using Fn+F1 (Samsung Settings) or the Fn+F11 shortcut which steps through the fan options (which are Performance, Optimised, Silent and No Fan). The wPrime 1024M times for those four modes are 268s, 315s, 419s and 604s which show the relative effect of the thermal constraints associated with the different fan modes. wPrime 32M takes about 7.6s in all modes. The CPU is the i5-1130G7 although the advertised specs showed it as i5-1135G7 which is slightly faster but has a much higher power rating and likely to perform worse within a thin notebook.

The maximum power consumption I've observed during some CPU benchmark test is 37W so there's plenty of power headroom if using the supplied 65W charger but the computer will run on any Power Delivery-enabled phone charger which reduces the baggage.

John