Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge Unboxing and First Impressions

In this video we unbox and check out the brand new Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge with the Snapdragon Elite CPU.
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[@DaneReidVoiceOver]

The lower chin on that laptop screen seems Jaye Leno humongous 😂

[@mb2q]

On a tablet that would bother me but on a laptop no chin would put the screen lower and I feel like the less I have to tilt my head the better.

[@leonardwise5807]

Unfortunately, I wish you got the 16 inch it's the only one with the 84 processor, which has vapor chamber cooling, better ports, and upgraded gpu.

[@MashITTech]

yeah, I ordered the 14 before I realised that :(

[@Antimonious]

Yeah, I want to see a review on that one

[@adinnugroho6544]

Having ARM based Laptop, can be a good thing for daily use. While I still keep the x86 one, for certain works (while waiting some of them are available natively for ARM architecture). It's just my thought, btw

[@MashITTech]

Probably best for the time being but the translation layer seems to be doing better than I expected so far!

[@5after12]

now this is a laptop I would be interested in, but the 16 inch probably

[@Dubem04]

Wow, you unboxed quite a lot today. Thanks for the content.

[@MashITTech]

it has been a long day! I am ready for bed 🤣

[@lincolnliking]

You're all doing a great job

[@MashITTech]

Thank you so much 😀

[@BurntOrangeHorn78]

Hope you test the 16" with the Elite 84. I think it has more ports, too.

[@darren6028]

Was the geekbench score on battery? and does the 14 have a vapor chamber?

[@jessegriffin9]

I low-key wanted X Elite's overall performance to beat at least M1's. unfortunately, it doesn't. But although I didn't get the wow vibe, I'm not as disappointed as I was in the last event. Correct me if I'm wrong. I want to be wrong.

[@scod3908]

It was a low volume server specific SoC design by ex-Apple employees under a license agreement from ARM. Qualcomm bought their company, and converted the designs to portable/laptop applications... and got sued by ARM over allegedly breaking their licensing agreements. The niche that ARM SoC's have in portable device efficiency combined with Apple's purported reluctance to allow those engineers to develop for server applications followed by Nuvia selling out to Qualcomm and the resulting lawsuits from ARM.... it all seems fishy to me. Especially when you consider the literal BILLIONS involved and how much those ex-Apple employees profited from ARM technology ending up in Apple's competitors' hands The Snapdragon single core performance doesn't appear to be on-par with Apple's SoC's. They make up for it by simply adding more cores to improve the overall multi-core performance, but this also comes at a cost of efficiency as they also don't utilise efficiency cores, etc. Benchmark tests are also showing more heat, so I don't see how they advertise competitive battery life to the Apple products. I guess we'll find out now that they're hitting the market!

[@theguard1]

I understand that updates will improve performance and battery life but realistically, how much could it possibly? Seems like a niche option to be honest... Bought the 16" for my wife and while she's not a gamer by any stretch, I hope Sims works on it...

[@vincentchi56]

Does anyone know Galaxy book4 edge 14" thickness 10.9mm in front side or whole side? I want to know real size (thicknest /rear side), thanks.

[@omkaraparamarta9335]

I have plans to buy a Samsung laptop, but I'm confused about which one to choose. I'm confused about choosing between the Book 4 Ultra or the Book 4 Edge. can you help me? I will use the laptop for general work such as; lectures, meetings, making presentations or conversation results, as well as Ms Office. Thank you in advance.

[@QUAD4600]

If you need it right now, go for book 4 ultra. The book 4 edge isn't optimized well like x86 does and can't run many apps. It will improve in future but you don't know how long it will take. The only disadvantage of book 4 ultra is weight so if you are "only" using it for general work, i recommend going for book 4 pro.

[@scod3908]

@@QUAD4600 battery life on the X86 intel is surely a factor, OP sounds like they will be commuting and using the device in varied locations

[@Krrishkumar2333]

Sir respect ❤❤ watched your 2 reviews today ❤😂

[@MashITTech]

thanks mate, it has been a busy day :)

[@nikc1313]

Think the success of these laptops fully depends on whether or not they sell enough for devs to start making native ARM apps. Considering its a gen 1 product from qualcomm i'm really impressed with the performance. Battery life isnt quite what i expected but no way youre getting an x86 product in this form factor that could last anywhere near as long. The manufacturers overhyped by quoting stupid run times.

[@TamasKiss-yk4st]

Just wait the next lunar lake from Intel, it's manufactured by TSMC, so it's a huge leap compared to Intel in efficiency (in desktop that doesn't really matter, you only need a bigger cooler, but in laptops you need a bigger battery for the less efficient chip)

[@JimKanaris]

I'm out of the loop on this one. Has Lenovo released their Snapdragon Elite laptops yet? I'd really like to see a comparison with previous generations, e.g., the Slim 7i 8th Gen / Legion 7i. Thanks for the flurry of unboxings today!

[@MashITTech]

They have but I dont think users have received them yet. Sadly I ran out of money and couldn't afford to add the Yoga to me list :(

[@Luffy2Y]

Yes. Just Josh is testing it live at the moment.

[@drdaris]

Great review! A bit worried about screen flickering issue, which is very visible in the video and does not happen on Surface Pro. Why is that happening? Is Edge panel of a lower quality than Surface Pro´s?

[@GaminylGames]

I believe it's a video issue - as in the refresh rate of the monitor can't be evenly divided into the refresh rate he's filming at (which is 60). If I had to take a guess, the refresh rate drops very low on the AMOLED panel when no content is moving on the screen - phones do this too. It saves battery but would cause flickering when looked through a camera

[@MashITTech]

It seems the PWM is flickering at a slower speed on the Book4 than on the SP11. I will try and take some recordings of both panels at 240fps (the fastest my camera can manage) whilst the screens are set to 120 to test further.

[@drdaris]

Would be interesting to know what is PWM frequency on Edge vs. Surface Pro.

[@AbdulazizAsiry]

Thank you for sharing, however I am not sure if I can use a stylus if i want to do any drowing with such specs what it would ideal is having a screen that can fold or get seperated and then i can use it even as a tablet in all cases it is gorgeous labtop indeed. although i am a mac user

[@princevimbai1]

I don't think it has pen support, unless you mean with a graphics tab. Probably check out the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360.

[@user-po8vd5gp5w]

the disappointment will be the battery size, if it is 70wh will be a killer feature

[@morm2173]

Could you make a comparison betweek this and the book 4 ultra 32 gb RAM ? Which is better ? Speakers, gaming , multi tasking?

[@MashITTech]

Sadly I havent bought the book4 ultra :(

[@brentmorris8626]

Waiting for 5G Looking to replace my Lenovo Miix 635 (Snapdragon) with 4Gb RAM.

[@luisdioniciod]

I need to decide between surface and this one, wich one do you recommend me?

[@MashITTech]

This has a much better screen and is a great package plus an HDMI 2.1 port, the surface has better speakers, keyboard and performance at the moment so I would probably get the surface

[@jithendrachowdary4341]

thanks mash i had actually bought a laptop after trusting you and it's pretty good thank you

[@MashITTech]

which laptop did you buy :)

[@jithendrachowdary4341]

@@MashITTech i had bought g16 even though it's heavy it's great as hell but hella expensive in india either way thanks it was in my budget so went for it

[@Helifax19]

Meah :) It is all I am going to say regarding the laptop :) Review was awesome, as always! Kudos! i'll stick by Dell/Alienware for laptops :D

[@MashITTech]

Thanks mate

[@at5245]

Thanks for the reviewing. I need to make a decision between Book3 360 8GB/512GB i5 and Book4 360 16GB/512GB i5. There is a 200€ price difference, does book worth to pay it? Note: I dont play games.

[@MashITTech]

there is a lot of advantages to the edge, it runs cool quiet and has amazing battery and standby but you may get the odd issue with software. The book 3 360 is also a solid laptop and if you dont need the amazing battery then this could be a sensible alternative

[@LiVeWiRez]

Would you mind showing us the internals? I'm trying to confirm if the storage is upgradeable or if it's eUFS.

[@MashITTech]

if it is easy to get into I will certainly open it up for you

[@TamasKiss-yk4st]

Im heard that only the X1E-84 model hava a soldered storage, the X1E-80 have a replaceable one (also it's should be different by manufacturers, so maybe you should check some other X Elite laptops too, since there are a few one with aso 32GB RAM options, what is also doesn't exists here)

[@scod3908]

Samsung Galaxy Book 4 utilises eUFS according to the website, so it's not upgradeable Strangely, all of the reviewers make a point of chastising Apple for this and are not mentioning it for the Snapdragon products

[@mugheeraiqbal]

For a laptop called Edge that display got a chin bigger than most old gen laptops

[@MashITTech]

🤣

[@LaurewLamith]

I think the 16" has a usb-a port??

[@tijesuadebowale6338]

Check the sound quality with dolby atmos on

[@jaybonline]

it has the lowest Snapdragon Elite X version. . there are 4 versions

[@ucheanwuanwu786]

What's your preference, between this and surface 7?

[@MashITTech]

Probably this one because of the OLED screen! it is beautiful

[@ucheanwuanwu786]

Ok. Thanks

[@senna476]

Webcam looks really greatA

[@venusvip]

BOOK 4 ULTRA IS MORE POWERFULL OR BOOK 4 EDGE ?

[@leewest9274]

They am all shit can't beat a pc performance for gaming

[@user-eu8xc7py5r]

Lenovo 7x next please!!

[@MashITTech]

they seem to be back ordered but I will try

[@harrymarco80]

Can you measure the actual screen brightness?

[@MashITTech]

will do

[@martinmagija]

Hi. What are the Galaxy AI features on it?

[@cerioo]

None. Just got mine yesterday and found none

[@martinmagija]

@@cerioo I rewatched the promotional videos and as I understand you have to have Samsung phone with One UI 6.1 connected to have the so called Galaxy AI. Then you get to ask phone to do task using the Copilot. For example send someone a message or ask what is Lucys phone number. What Samsung's own apps are included. The Gallery, Bixby?

[@cerioo]

@@martinmagija I have a Galaxy S23 updated with the 6.1. However, I don't know how to access Galaxy AI on the PC. Maybe is not available yet? But yes it has all the Samsung apps (gallery, notes, device manager, phone, ...) PS: the problem might be that I live in Europe. So Copilot is not really present.

[@martinmagija]

@@cerioo I wonder if the Gallery app on this PC is capable of upscaling photos like I can on my Fold3. I am happy the way Fold3 does it but it takes over 30 seconds for each photo and as I plan to upscale thousands of photos, it takes too much time. I wonder if the Book4 Edge can do it faster. By reading the fine print under the promotional videos I understand that what they call Galaxy AI on this PC is just phones AI features mirrored to computers bigger screen. I also wonder if you can enable Copilot by changing your region to United States and language to English. For my x86 PC this trick worked for Cortana but it does't work for Copilot.

[@cerioo]

@@martinmagija no. In the gallery on the PC there isn't the upscaling feature. As far as the region, I need to keep my country for work reasons. But I was in Australia some week ago with my Surface Pro and Copilot did not work even if I had English settings and Australia as a region.

[@tijesuadebowale6338]

And the hdr too please

[@heshanwijerathna]

Dont rush man you may be break the thing. I had a rush to watch your vedio but you no need to rush 😅

[@MashITTech]

Haha, well if I break it then that shows it is not fit for heavy usage 😂

[@Bhargav_Gadekar]

*I Absolutely Loved it, though 1.5k dollars is kinda alot expensive for someone like me from* 🇮🇳😅😅😅

[@syedalirazabukhari]

Hi, I saw your other review of the surface laptop as well. Which one would you recommend? I am a bit confused between the surface laptop and galaxy book 4 edge.

[@MashITTech]

I will do a proper head to head comparison soon but on initial impressions, the screen is much better on the book4 but I prefer the keyboard, trackpad and speakers on the SL7. On this alone I would take the SL7.

[@syedalirazabukhari]

​@MashITTech Thanks for a quick response. Looking forward to a new comparison video.

[@saadabdullah4245]

​@MashITTech did you tey the oled sl7 or ips?

[@JonnMcLoed-vo3fe]

Nice laptop and needs a few weeks to optimise the firmware for these great chips. Data miner that tells me things says these chips will destroy Apples Macbook Air as fast and cheaper.

[@TamasKiss-yk4st]

They announced the chip 8 months ago.. they did nothing just optimizing the things in that 8 months.. and the faster than a Macbook is a bit funny, just pick random 10 apps, and check how many cores they are using.. and face the reality, if they use only one core, the multi core score result have nothing to do with that, there are only the single core score count, which is about in pair with just M2.. but already the M4 on the market..)

[@ffmde8268]

Why didnt you test the integration of AI?

[@MashITTech]

Because I hate AI 😂 I will cover it in the full review

[@Bhargav_Gadekar]

*All the INITIAL videos on this laptop will be paid by SAMSUNG. We have to wait couple months to get actual review. Stil bro gave one of the best and honest review out there* 😢

[@MashITTech]

I hope to have the complete review done next week🤞

[@Bhargav_Gadekar]

@@MashITTech will be waiting for it

[@GaminylGames]

4:18 brother you arent moving out of the frame lol - Great video so far but I just had to bully you a bit for that one >.> Subbed

[@MashITTech]

haha thanks mate. But the auto frame just wasn't working well, I think its a bug with snapdragon as the eye correction also isn't working but these features worked well with Intels new NPUs

[@svsingh7568]

Price Indian rupees

[@lolidasterner414]

All those laptops are competing with the zen and integrated graphics models. One thing for sure , battery is not user repleacable.

[@scod3908]

... and storage is eUFS, so it's also not user-replaceable, which the reviewers are not mentioning

[@mahatmagaand]

I need more USB C not a effing HDMi

[@QUAD4600]

Well this is better than macbook with m3 in performance but it isnt optimized well still I'm still surprised that it can't even run google drive Typical arm notebook moment ig :p

[@TamasKiss-yk4st]

Don't let the marketing team fool you.. it's only better in multi core score, but 99,9% of the apps are single core, where is slower like a Macbook (also you can guess which one can drain more battery the 4 power cores or the 12 power cores..? That 12 power cores actually close to the M1 Ultra what had 16 power cores.. and they needed almost the same amount of power cores just to compete the basic chip with 4 power cores.. so this faster than a Macbook is actually a big fat lie, even your games are running on single core, so which one is faster the 2400-2700 or the 2900-3100..?)

[@QUAD4600]

@TamasKiss-yk4st well idk about m3 pro but seems like x elite 84 can beat Apple M3 in multi core both in cinebench and geekbench and slightly worse in single core but tbh not reallly big gap like the multi core. And yes i agree on that m3 still does perform better in battery life but book 4 edge is more optimized to most apps or games than macbook do.

[@eric131313]

How the hell they managed to win so many designs while being inferior in pretty much everything is what i wonder 🤔

[@football_prediction]

Still MacBooks with even m3 is better than x elite

[@josephle2381]

No

[@The_Idea_of_Dream_Vision]

Compared to what? There are many X elite laptops. Choose the best and compare with Mac book

[@TamasKiss-yk4st]

@The_Idea_of_Dream_Vision when you understand the difference between the fan noise and the fanless device, you will know where is the M3 better, but a hint for you, the cooler is required to cool down the even hotter chip, and why is hotter? Because it's use more power, alias deplete the battery noticeably faster, with about the same or even less performance (you know that if the 99,9% of the apps are single core apps, so you need to compare the single core score not the multi core score..? 😂)

[@The_Idea_of_Dream_Vision]

@@TamasKiss-yk4st using M1 now but again you have to try as many models first from different brands before concluding.

[@mikehawk7307]

Guess what? I have a 15in touch screen laptop. HP X360. I paid $50 for it. And I am truly fine with it.

[@poopbutt6241]

This is a review video

[@jiamiekori6575]

No one pays msrp for Samsung. Wait a few months, and it will be $100 lol

[@MashITTech]

hahaha so true

[@andyH_England]

Yes, I have bought three Galaxy Book devices, all new, at around half price on eBay over the last few years.

[@sergebureau2225]

What is the use of an unboxing video , PRETTY USELESS