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The GoodVery nice (and very familiar) build and designBright and contrast-y OLED displayGood Intel Panther Lake \/ Nvidia RTX performanceThe BadBad keyboard with short key travelPoor webcam qualitySo pricey for such glaring faults<\/p>\n
The Galaxy Book6 Ultra starts at $2,900 with a 16-core Core Ultra X7 358H chip and integrated Intel Arc B390 graphics. Our review configuration has a similar Intel Core Ultra 7 356H chip paired with an Nvidia RTX 5070 Laptop GPU. It also has 32GB of soldered RAM and a 2TB SSD. It cost $3,200 before RAMageddon<\/a> drove prices up.<\/a> Now, it\u2019s a whopping $3,800<\/a> with a 1TB SSD. At that price, it\u2019s just $100 shy of a 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Max<\/a> with 36GB of memory and a 2TB SSD. (Let\u2019s keep that figure in the back of our minds.)<\/p>\n Screen: AWebcam: DKeyboard: DTrackpad: CPort selection: BSpeakers: BNumber of ugly stickers to remove: 4 (one underneath)<\/p>\n As expected from a high-end Samsung device, the display is gorgeous. The 16-inch, 2880 x 1800 OLED touchscreen is bright and sharp, rendering vibrant colors and perfect contrast. And the 120Hz adaptive refresh rate makes motion nice and smooth.<\/p>\n Like a MacBook Pro, the Galaxy Book6 Ultra has Thunderbolt and HDMI 2.1 ports and an SD card slot. While the MacBooks have three Thunderbolt 5 ports, the Samsung has two Thunderbolt 4 and an old-fashioned USB-A. Regardless of USB preference, it\u2019s a good port selection that\u2019s fit for demanding users and content creators. It\u2019d be nice if it were Thunderbolt 5, given the price, but Panther Lake doesn\u2019t have native support for Thunderbolt 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n When it comes to performance, the Book6 is fast. It\u2019s speedy enough to handle busy multitasking and tackle hefty edits in Lightroom Classic. It slowed down a touch when I made chunky edits using subject and background detection masks, then copied and pasted them across batches of images, but I expect that in most laptops other than high-end Macs with Pro and Max chips.<\/p>\n On the right are the USB-A port, 3.5mm audio jack, and SD card slot.<\/p>\n On the left is an HDMI port, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, and a power \/ battery indicator.<\/p>\n On the keyboard deck is a terrible keyboard and an okay trackpad.<\/p>\n Thanks to the discrete graphics, I could even play games like Battlefield 6<\/a> and Marathon<\/a> reasonably well (two games you can\u2019t run at all on macOS). In BF6, I typically got a solid 70+ fps by keeping settings modest: medium presets at 2880 x 1800 resolution with DLSS set to Performance. Marathon mustered a passable 50+ fps using Nvidia\u2019s optimized settings. The fans don\u2019t even get super loud, but, in exchange, the underside of the Galaxy Book\u2019s chassis got very hot near the back.<\/p>\n The Intel Panther Lake CPU and Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU combo makes the Book6 a bit of a sleeper gaming laptop. It\u2019s miles ahead of either MacBook for that. But for $3,800 you can get much better performance from the more straightforwardly gamer-looking laptops<\/a> out there. Or you can remain somewhat stealthy with a Razer Blade<\/a> or Asus ROG Zephyrus<\/a>, and get similar gaming performance for a lot less money.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, gaming performance isn\u2019t enough for a laptop that costs almost $4,000. In benchmarks the Galaxy Book6 Ultra is closer to the $1,700 MacBook Pro<\/a> with the base M5 chip. Benchmarks aren\u2019t everything, but Samsung is charging so much money for a laptop that gets outpaced by one that\u2019s half the price. Where the Book6\u2019s discrete GPU gives it an advantage in some graphics-heavy tests, the much cheaper M5 MacBook Pro isn\u2019t far behind. It even handily beats Samsung\u2019s machine in our 4K video export test.<\/p>\n 1\/10Just because it copies some of its design doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t sleek and nice looking.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t really Samsung\u2019s fault. Windows laptop makers can\u2019t compete with high-end Macs in raw speed. Intel and AMD don\u2019t have any laptop CPUs that get close to Apple\u2019s single-core performance, which is why a 10-core M5\u2019s multicore performance can beat a 16-core Panther Lake chip.<\/p>\n In related news, battery performance is uneven. I\u2019ve had days of light usage (many Chrome tabs, some stints of music listening, and a bit of photo editing) where it lasted over 10 hours, and then similarly light days where I only got seven. Other Panther Lake laptops<\/a> I\u2019ve tested have better battery life, but the Nvidia GPU uses more power than integrated graphics. Even though the laptop is supposed to switch to integrated graphics outside of demanding tasks, laptops with both tend to have worse battery life even outside of games.<\/p>\n I love discrete graphics for gaming, but Macs have an inherent advantage in battery life consistency because they sidestep that power dance entirely with integrated graphics going up to a wildly high number of GPU cores. The much cheaper 14-inch MacBook Pro is in \u201cEh, who cares if you forgot the charger at home\u201d territory \u2014 often lasting me 12 hours or more. (Speaking of chargers, Samsung\u2019s chunky 140W power adapter even looks like Apple\u2019s. But its prongs don\u2019t fold down, and the included cable is a little short at 70 inches \/ 1.8 meters. Who decided less cable is better?)<\/p>\n As for the speakers, they\u2019re good. But they lack a little depth and bass compared to the equivalent six-speaker setups on the MacBook Pros or even the 15-inch MacBook Air<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1\/12Here\u2019s the Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra side by side with a 16-inch MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n But the most egregious misstep is the Galaxy Book6 Ultra\u2019s keyboard. The keys are very flat, with minimal separation from the deck. Samsung claims there\u2019s 1mm of key travel, matching the current MacBook keyboards, but it somehow feels shallower and much worse. Typing on this keyboard gives me flashbacks to the old Apple butterfly keyboards,<\/a> and that\u2019s not an experience we should be revisiting. Frankly, I don\u2019t know how Samsung achieved this (derogatory). I make more typos and mistakes on this keyboard than usual, and I dislike it so much I sometimes place a mechanical keyboard over it. I\u2019m sure you could get used to it, but that\u2019s not good enough on a laptop this expensive.<\/p>\n I wish that was the only problem, but the haptic trackpad can also be frustrating. I usually love haptic pads since you can register a click anywhere, and the Galaxy Book offers a generously sized area for clicking \u2014 much like the Force Touch trackpads on a MacBook. But this one\u2019s just okay. It\u2019s usually fine, but I sometimes experienced delayed clicks and repeated inputs when clicking and dragging things or highlighting cells in a spreadsheet.<\/p>\n Me, wondering what is up with this webcam image quality.<\/p>\n And then there\u2019s the webcam. I have no idea what processing Samsung is doing, but the 1080p camera somehow makes you look simultaneously grainy and smoothed out. My best guess is it\u2019s a noisy image sensor and Samsung has some noise reduction or skin smoothing going on \u2014 or both. It\u2019s a bad sign when the first thing my colleagues ask me in a video call is what laptop I\u2019m using.<\/p>\n Samsung wants its flagship laptop to be a MacBook Pro for Windows so badly. It has a nice chassis and screen, and good performance for a Windows laptop this thin, but it whiffs on too many of the fundamentals. It\u2019s priced like an M5 Max MacBook Pro, has the performance of a MacBook less than half its price, and lacks the excellent battery life of either. Just get the genuine article.<\/p>\n Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra specs (as reviewed)<\/p>\n Display: 16-inch (2880 x 1800) 120Hz OLED touchscreenCPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 356HGPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPURAM: 32GB LPDDR5X (soldered)Storage: 2TB NVMe SSD with second storage slotWebcam: 1080pConnectivity: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4Ports: 2x Thunderbolt 4 USB-C (DisplayPort \/ Power Delivery), 1x USB-A 3.2, HDMI 2.1, full-size SDXC card slot, 3.5mm combo audio jackWeight: 4.17 pounds \/ 1.89kgDimensions: 14.05 x 9.76 x 0.61 inches \/ 356.9 x 248 x 15.4mmBattery: 80.2WhPrice: $3,799.99<\/p>\n Photography by Antonio G. Di Benedetto \/ The Verge<\/p>\n Benchmarks comparison tableSamsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra \/ Intel Core Ultra 7 356H (Panther Lake) \/ 32GB \/ 2TBMacBook Pro 14 \/ Apple M5 \/ 16GB \/ 1TBAsus Zenbook Duo \/ Intel Core Ultra X9 388H (Panther Lake) \/ 32GB \/ 1TBRazer Blade 16 (2025) \/ AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 \/ RTX 5090 \/ 32GB \/ 2TBAsus Zenbook A16 \/ Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2E94100 \/ 48GB \/ 1TBMacBook Pro 16 \/ Apple M5 Max \/ 128GB \/ 4TBCPU cores161016121818GPUNvidia RTX 5070 Laptop GPU (4,608 CUDA cores)Apple M5 (10 cores)Arc B390 (12 cores)Nvidia RTX 5090 Laptop GPU (10,496 CUDA cores)Adreno X2-90Apple M5 Max (40 cores)Geekbench 6 CPU Single280242083009296836434330Geekbench 6 CPU Multi164711794817268159222204429143Geekbench 6 GPU (OpenCL)117306490595683921301641101145613Cinebench 2026 Single499736528Not tested628734Cinebench 2026 Multi436944863993Not tested63278952PugetBench for Photoshop805712354877386791093115716PugetBench for Premiere Pro (2.0.0+)819897112254920Not testedNot tested154829Blender classroom test (seconds, lower is better)4044611819815Blender cosmos test (seconds, lower is better)223Not tested20412167035Premiere 4K Export (lower is better)4 minutes, 25 seconds2 minutes, 47 seconds3 minutes, 3 seconds1 minute, 56 seconds6 minutes, 38 seconds1 minute, 10 secondsSustained SSD reads (MB\/s)7049.867049.456762.156726.257092.9113638.91Sustained SSD writes (MB\/s)5819.387317.65679.414931.415694.9417814.19Price as tested$3,799.99$1,949$2,299.99$4,499.99$1,699.99$6,149Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Antonio G. 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