Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra review: businesslike performance

Smart, snappy and capable of kicking back after hours, the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra would make a wonderful studio companion.

Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra
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Our Verdict

While it lacks the excitement of many gaming laptops, the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra offers a lot of capability thanks to its powerful Intel and Nvidia chips. It’s well put-together, the screen is bright, colourful and lends itself to a wide display of gamuts, and while it may not beat a MacBook Pro in everybody’s eyes, it’s up there with the best.

For

  • Excellent specs
  • Bright AMOLED screen
  • All-day battery

Against

  • A bit dull and grey
  • Sound quality not great
  • Expensive

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Intel Core Ultra. Nvidia GeForce. OLED. Some combinations of specs tell you you’re going to get an excellent laptop experience, and so it proves with the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra, a bit of a mouthful on the tongue but a great machine in the hands.

And it excels on the desktop too. This laptop can handle anything a suite of creative apps can throw at it, with one of Nvidia’s best current-gen GPUs and lots of CPU cores to keep it fed with frames to render. It has all the features you’d expect from a flagship device, including Thunderbolt 4 and an all-day battery. It manages to keep a few quality-of-life updates that will make it a popular choice if you need your laptop to do everything.

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CPUIntel Core Ultra 9 185H
GPUNvidia GeForce RTX 4070
RAM32GB
Screen16in AMOLED touchscreen
Resolution2880 x 1800 px
Refresh rate120Hz
Storage1TB SSD, MicroSD
ConnectivityWi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, 2x Thunderbolt 4, 1x USB 3.2, 1x HDMI 2.1
Dimensions355.4 x 250.4 x 16.5 mm
Weight1.86kg
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Cinebench 2024Row 0 - Cell 1
CPU multi-core517
Single-core104
GPU7185
Geekbench 6Row 4 - Cell 1
CPU multi-core7288
Single-core2447
GPU (OpenCL)66675
PCMark 10Row 8 - Cell 1
Home test6616
Battery life12h 48m
3D MarkRow 11 - Cell 1
Fire Strike17081
Time Spy7809
Handbrake video encoding4m 52s, 66fps
Asus ProArt PX13

Asus ProArt PX13

With a Ryzen AI 9 and an RTX 4070, plus a 2-in-1 OLED touchscreen, this is a lot of laptop for less money than the Samsung.

MacBook Air M3 15in

MacBook Air M3 15in

Or you could even get a MacBook Pro at this price. They’re universally excellent.

Microsoft Surface Laptop 7

Microsoft Surface Laptop 7

It may not have the same GPU power at the Galaxy Book, but the new Snapdragon platform is the future of PCs.

The Verdict
8

out of 10

Samsung Galaxy Book4 Ultra

While it lacks the excitement of many gaming laptops, the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra offers a lot of capability thanks to its powerful Intel and Nvidia chips. It’s well put-together, the screen is bright, colourful and lends itself to a wide display of gamuts, and while it may not beat a MacBook Pro in everybody’s eyes, it’s up there with the best.

Ian Evenden

Ian Evenden has been a journalist for over 20 years, starting in the days of QuarkXpress 4 and Photoshop 5. He now mainly works in Creative Cloud and Google Docs, but can always find a use for a powerful laptop or two. When not sweating over page layout or photo editing, you can find him peering at the stars or growing vegetables.

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