Samsung's ARM-based Galaxy Book S lasts 23 hours, features touchscreen and LTE connectivit...
Samsung at its Unpacked event on Wednesday unveiled the Galaxy Book S, an addition to the company's Galaxy Book line that features an ARM-based Qualcomm Snapdragon processor for longer battery life.
Announced alongside Samsung's latest flagship phablets, the Galaxy Note 10 and 10+, the portable runs Windows 10 and packs a 13.3-inch display with support for ten points of multitouch input, cellular connectivity, 8GB of RAM, up to 512GB of internal storage and other standard features into a chassis weighing in at just over two pounds.
Like 2018's Galaxy Book2, Samsung opted to power Galaxy Book S with an efficient ARM-based chip. Designed for desktop applications, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx is a 7-nanometer, 64-bit, eight-core chip that boasts a clock speed of 2.84GHz. As noted by The Verge, Samsung is promising 40 percent greater CPU performance and 80 percent greater graphics performance than the Snapdragon 850 mobile platform in the Galaxy Book2.
Whether the diminutive thin-and-light can deliver those numbers has yet to be seen, though past efforts to incorporate an ARM chip into a daily duty Windows laptop have been largely unsuccessful. Intel's silicon, sometimes knocked for a lack of power efficiency, are for the most part more adept at running a full-fledged operating system.
That said, ARM enables extraordinarily long run times, with Samsung claiming the 42Wh battery in Galaxy Book S can go up to 23 hours between charges. The measurement is based on playback of a locally stored video without connection to either Wi-Fi or mobile network, meaning real-world use will likely see a significant decrease in actual uptime.
Samsung also touts instant-on capabilities that immediately wake the computer with a touch of the power button, fingerprint sensor, keyboard or mousepad.
Galaxy Book S debuts in September starting at $999.
Apple, too, is rumored to move its MacBook laptop line away from Intel in favor of custom A-series ARM chips as soon as 2020. The transition is expected to take years, with low-power, entry-level Macs likely gaining access before more powerful machines like the MacBook Pro.
Announced alongside Samsung's latest flagship phablets, the Galaxy Note 10 and 10+, the portable runs Windows 10 and packs a 13.3-inch display with support for ten points of multitouch input, cellular connectivity, 8GB of RAM, up to 512GB of internal storage and other standard features into a chassis weighing in at just over two pounds.
Like 2018's Galaxy Book2, Samsung opted to power Galaxy Book S with an efficient ARM-based chip. Designed for desktop applications, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx is a 7-nanometer, 64-bit, eight-core chip that boasts a clock speed of 2.84GHz. As noted by The Verge, Samsung is promising 40 percent greater CPU performance and 80 percent greater graphics performance than the Snapdragon 850 mobile platform in the Galaxy Book2.
Whether the diminutive thin-and-light can deliver those numbers has yet to be seen, though past efforts to incorporate an ARM chip into a daily duty Windows laptop have been largely unsuccessful. Intel's silicon, sometimes knocked for a lack of power efficiency, are for the most part more adept at running a full-fledged operating system.
That said, ARM enables extraordinarily long run times, with Samsung claiming the 42Wh battery in Galaxy Book S can go up to 23 hours between charges. The measurement is based on playback of a locally stored video without connection to either Wi-Fi or mobile network, meaning real-world use will likely see a significant decrease in actual uptime.
Samsung also touts instant-on capabilities that immediately wake the computer with a touch of the power button, fingerprint sensor, keyboard or mousepad.
Galaxy Book S debuts in September starting at $999.
Apple, too, is rumored to move its MacBook laptop line away from Intel in favor of custom A-series ARM chips as soon as 2020. The transition is expected to take years, with low-power, entry-level Macs likely gaining access before more powerful machines like the MacBook Pro.
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Will the MacBook Pro or Air ever get LTE? Maybe a 12” MacBook (A Series) LTE in 2020?
AI should kick the tires on the Samsung Book S as a college machine. Colleges seem to prefer Windows for engineering majors, and Macs for Arts... Will a Windows on ARM even run the software? Or, is this a hobbled Windows machine that will run little more than Microsoft Office?
Otherwise, I'm excited to see what improvements have been made for x86 on ARM. If this thing garners good reviews and turns out to be viable, I might just pick one up around May 2020 when they will have likely depreciated by 40-50%
There’s nothing innovative about this laptop. Nice, maybe. Innovative, nope.
But of course that was said by someone who belittles Apple’s work at trying to detect dementia via their devices using ML, motion detection, and habits ... that’s real innovation; taking current tech and making new uses out of it.
The real news news is that me now makes a full version of Windows that runs on arm.
Looks like theyvecbeen paying attention to apple rumors. Again.
The iPad Pro along with iPadOs is becoming the Intel MacBook replacement.
iCloud servers may be the next ones to use Apple A processors, imho.
There is no reasonable expectation that a person would use this device while turning off key hardware and limiting the use to just watching a locally-stored 23 hour long video.
To actually go out and tout this battery life as a selling-feature is deceitful business conduct. (But not surprising for this company, if one has noticed their other recent offerings.)
Windows for arm has been available for many years, it has been a commercial failure due to the inability to run x86 software on it. (I.E. It is incompatible with usual windows applications.)
Support for non “x86” based platforms is not all that unusual for Microsoft, who once made it’s operating system software for a range of hardware platforms including MIPS, Alpha, ARM, and PowerPC.
To answer your question directly. MS will, based on their history, update this machine every Tuesday (ugggh) until I am long dead. Samsung will try (I won't let them unless it's security related) to update their suite of software as long as they can ping the machine. This isn't Android so trying to use Android arguments really don't work here.
I also looked for something that would please to port freaks but there is none except the microSD, only two USB-C. I am curious how port freaks will react to that
If the software is well behaved and doesn’t go around Windows OS by directly accessing the ARM processor, it should work fine.