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| Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 15 realis |
The Samsung Galaxy Book Flex is one of Samsung's attempts to dominate the 2-in-1 laptop market. Considering that maybe Samsung has dominated enough in other segments, it's not enough.
This is proven by the features of the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex which are able to attract the attention of many people. To really get it all, you have to spend quite deep.
General Information
Processor Intel Core i7 10657G7 1.3 GHz to 3.9 GHz (4 cores and 8 MB cache)
Storage Built-in 16GB LPDDR4X 3733MHz dual-channel RAM
Capacity 512GB M.2 NVMe PCI SSD to 1TB PCIe SSD
GPUs NVIDIA GeForce MX250 2GB GDDR5
Advertisement 15.6 inch 16:
9 (1920×1080), 141 PPI, 10 touchpoints, IPS QLED, HDR, 60 Hz, glossy coating
Harbor 2 x USB-C (Thunderbolt 3), 1 x USB-C, microSD, headphone jack
Size 355x227x15mm
Heavy 1.5 kg
Battery 70Wh
Of course, with the big name Samsung, all eyes were immediately on the 2-in-1 laptop, which was first launched in mid-2020. Naturally, considering that Samsung is actually one of the biggest devices in the world.
That said, one of the advantages of Samsung and the various devices it releases is the quality of the screen which is above average.
Likewise with this laptop, where the Samsung Galaxy Flex (2020) has a very good screen quality. Even Samsung claims that this laptop is the world's first 2-in-1 laptop that uses this super bright QLED screen!
Apart from that, this laptop is also equipped with very capable technical features, so in our opinion the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex can be called one of the best on the market, both from the outside and from the inside. In terms of design, we can say that this laptop is one of the most beautiful and stylish you can get. From the exterior design to the screen and keyboard.
Unfortunately, you have to spend quite a bit to get everything this laptop has. It's even classified as one of the most expensive 2-in-1 laptops you can get right now.
Pricing and Availability
Launched in mid-2020, this laptop received quite a lively reception from reviewers. Considering that this laptop has pretty good specifications for a 2-in-1.
In several online stores, the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 15 costs IDR 46,999,000. Of course, you can get this price for the SKU with the highest processor and RAM.
For those of you who are constrained by financial problems, you can buy the SKU below, namely the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 13 which comes with an Intel Core i5 10354G CPU and 8GB RAM for IDR 37,900,000.
In addition, if you open the official Samsung website, you can do some updates, for example adding Samsung Care+ to extend the warranty for this laptop up to 3 years. Of course, to increase this guarantee you have to spend another 3 million to around 5 million rupiah. Of course, this price is a very expensive price for a 2-in-1 laptop.
In addition, in early 2021, Samsung plans to release the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex2 with an Intel Gen 11 processor, which is definitely much faster than this laptop.
The Samsung Galaxy Book Flex comes in royal blue and looks attractive. He succeeded in presenting a laptop with an unusual color that is still beautiful to look at. Not to mention the Samsung logo on the center left which is simple and makes it even more elegant. The all-aluminum body of this laptop is designed with a clean cut and a very neat square shape. You will look in vain for stripes or bright color accents on this laptop.
This laptop is more compact and generally lighter than the popular Dell XPS 15, measuring only 355 mm x 227 mm x 15 mm and weighing only 1.5 kg.
This is an added value, especially for those of you who have relatively high mobility.
Screen
The 15.6-inch screen is big enough for a portable 2-in-1 laptop. Fortunately, Samsung has equipped this screen with ultra-thin bezels on three sides, right, left and top. Leaving a slightly thicker frame at the bottom for the hinges.
Base resolution is 1920 x 1080, aspect ratio 16:
9, IPS panel and 60Hz refresh rate. This laptop seems to want to offer more satisfaction to its users with the QLED technology embedded in it.
In Normal/Normal mode, you can use this laptop with a brightness of around 405 cd/m², which is actually quite high too. However, if you activate the Outdoor+ feature, you get a brightness level of up to 600 nits.
Overall, the brightness of this laptop is much higher than its competitors. For example the HP Envy x360 15 (314 nits), Asus ZenBook Flip 15 (351 nits), and Lenovo Yoga C740 15 (286 nits). If you activate the Outdoor+ function, the value increases up to 2 times.
The color accuracy and color reproduction of this laptop is also quite high. This laptop has a color gamut of 100% sRGB and 78° over RGB, although the Delta-E value is still 3.5 (less than 3 is considered ideal).
The downside of this laptop screen is its slow response time. Working isn't really a problem, but this slow response time can be a pain for gamers.
Also one of the strengths of the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex is the above-average quality of its touch screen, which we found to be very fast and very responsive.
Keyboard, Touchpad, and PowerShare
This laptop has a modern island/chiclet design keyboard and offers a keyboard with a fairly short range but with good accent points and good resistance.
This improves typing comfort and can minimize typing speed slowdown. This is very important for those who use this laptop for a full-time job, especially for a writer.
But of course, with such a design, the suspension travel is moderate, which, of course, makes sense to reduce the thickness of the laptop. You'll need to make some adjustments first, especially if you're used to using keyboards with mechanical switches for fast typing.
The funny thing is that Samsung made some very eccentric innovations with a design that looks built for fast typing. Samsung placed the fingerprint sensor below the Enter key and to the right of the Shift key.
Webcam
The webcam quality of the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex is average. In fact, it's exactly the same as most of today's portable webcams.
But when it comes to design, Samsung is given the thumbs up because this laptop has very thin bezels, even for the webcam. Where most laptops sacrifice, the top bezel is a bit thick.
Well, considering that this laptop is a productivity laptop, you'd guess what, you use it a lot for conferences and meetings. In our opinion, the best option is to buy an external webcam. Finally, nowadays you can buy a high-quality outdoor webcam with prices ranging from 1 to 3 million rupiah.
Noise
For such an amazing price, Samsung should offer quality audio in this laptop. Unfortunately, you don't get this sound quality here.
Equipped with a long speaker grill that is placed on the back of the laptop, to be precise between the 360 degree hinges. Even at maximum sound settings, the sound produced by this laptop's speakers isn't even able to fill a fairly quiet room.
But fortunately, the quality and balance of Samsung's speakers is quite good. Especially if you configure the advanced settings manually, you can be sure you can forgive the weakness of the speakers on this laptop.
Ports and Connectivity
This laptop doesn't offer ports that are too perfect, even usually small ones. However, we don't think this is a big deal if this is something that naturally happens to thin laptops.
The left side of this laptop only houses the headphone jack, microSD card slot and USB Type C. The left side has two Thunderbolt 3 ports combined with a pen dock. These two Thunderbolt 3 ports allow you to connect this laptop with an external GPU and 4K resolution, making this laptop capable of beating many AAA games and being faster and more productive.
Apart from that, this laptop also has Intel WiFi 6 AX201 which is known to be fast. The speed can even reach 1259 MBps, competing with the average speed of 1228 MBps of other laptops with the same module.
Performance and Battery
Performance-wise, the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex isn't the best you can get at this price. In addition, the title is also not a gaming laptop or a workstation laptop, but a productivity laptop.
1. Normal vs Calm
One aspect that could be addressed is Samsung's Quiet Mode setting, which can instantly lower the noise level of this laptop, though you'll obviously have to sacrifice performance.
2. Performance
Equipped with the 10th generation Intel Core i7 Ice Lake processor, the power of this laptop cannot be underestimated. Apart from that, this laptop CPU also supports Hyper-Threading.
When testing this laptop in a multi-threaded CineBench test, it automatically goes up to 3.3-3.5GHz for a short time, then drops and stabilizes at 3.0GHz.
This laptop got a score of 765 on the CineBench R15 test, which means it has exceeded the 652 average for other Intel Core i7 1065G7 laptops. But the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 15 with 872 still lost to the HP Envy x360 and Asus ZenBook Flip 15 with 836, but beat the Lenovo Yoga C740 15 with 756.
In addition, when tested with PCMark 10, this laptop got a fairly high score of 4423 points, higher than the average laptop with an Intel Core i7 1065G7 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce MX250 GPU with 3828 points.
This laptop's score even beat the 15-inch Lenovo Yoga C740 with a score of 3522 and the Asus Zenbook Flip 15 with a score of 3441. However, it lost to the HP Envy x360 15 with a score of 4791.
The storage capability of this laptop can be said to be very fast. This laptop can read and write data at speeds of 2994 MBps and 3551 MBps.
This speed far exceeds the average laptop in its class and has the same price as this laptop. But it's not surprising that Samsung itself is a supplier of SSDs for some of today's high-performance laptops.
3. Real Life Performance
One of the next questions about this laptop is how it will perform in real-life tests when used for work or even for gaming.
That being said, this laptop is not a gaming laptop, so don't expect too much. Nonetheless, this laptop can play some games.
The Witcher (Low) can be played up to 62 FPS at this portable frame rate, SOTR (Minimum) can be played up to 48 FPS, F1 2020 (Ultra Low) can still be played up to 80 FPS, and Star . War Squadron (Medium) can be played at up to 46 FPS.
4. Battery Life
The battery life of this laptop is quite good. When tested with Wi-Fi enabled continuously when opening multiple browsers, this laptop lasted up to almost 12 hours.
This time record beats the average 2-in-1 laptop by less than 8 hours on average. In addition, this record also beats the Lenovo Yoga 10 hours 20 minutes, the Asus ZenBook Flip 15 9 hours 30 minutes and the 15-inch HP Envy x360 by an average of less than 10 hours.
