Galaxy Book4 Business Laptop - Intel 10-Core 7 150U, 15.6 FHD Display, Windows 11 Pro, Backlit Keyboard, Fingerprint, Copilot AI, w/Redragon Accessories (16GB RAM, 512GB SSD)

Pretty awesome laptop, got a great deal because the Samsung gaming laptop brand isn’t know. But I’ve been running modern warfare war zone at max settings with about 100 FPS (using a dual monitor set up). Pretty awesome to me! Minimum bloatware and some actual useful Samsung software tools, like the tool that conserves longevity of your battery by limiting the max charge to 85% while hooked up to power.

I like the aluminum chassis, the build quality, the bright screen, no dead pixels, and the price, at $1179 blew anything comparable out of the water - even a plastic chassis. It's fast and problem free for me. I over-researched this, and for a few months read others' reviews - concerned that at that price it might be a used return or something. Samsung told me it was an extraordinary price. This model was positioned at $1,999 to begin with, and that was a stretch. I was considering the Electroluk Mag-Light at $1,499 and up. I tried very hard to find legitimate reviews of this model for reliability and quality - longevity etc. Youtube had at show quick views, which were worthless to me, with no hands on use. Finally, I found repair percentages of most all brands of laptop except boutique houses on rescue . com, who gave a wide variety of repair frequency of brands over four years. Samsung has a very small market share in the USA on any laptops, but a devoted user base it seems, but they normalized the data with market share, and even so the Samsung even beat Apple for minimal repairs, build quality and problems, and came close another year at #2. Last year, it was in the middle of well-known brands. Samsung seemed to think the price was unlikely for a new unit, so I emailed the vendor, who assured me they were only factory-sealed new models, never a return. My unit came new alright. Minimum bloatware, and many updates to do right away. It's a very solid unit, seemingly well-made. For over a grand, I wanted metal, period. Got it. Other brands, which all faired worse in reliability for the most part, had units that at 16gb ram, i7, 144mhx, and 512 SSD were much higher in price two months ago. I don't know about now, and I see this model is at about $1499. I think it's still a good deal at that. I'd recommend this computer. I'm new to gaming, so I can't spew specs and FPS like experienced gamers, but I play Read Dead Redemption 2 fine, Fallout Las Vegas fine, those being the two bigger tasks I've run. I wanted a unit that could run Esri's ArcGIS mapping/spatial analyses software on, and it met those specs easily. A workstation grade GPU would be better for computationally-intense use - like 3-D terrain analyses (slope/aspect/view-shed), but those specialized GPU's are more expensive, and don't run games well I read. Many GIS pro's said a gaming laptop was a good compromise for price. So I'm very happy with this after about 6 weeks. The only mild annoyance so far is short battery life, but I've read as a gaming laptop that's to be expected. I get about an hour 20 in gaming, but bought it primarily as a desktop replacement. No other site than rescue . com gave more recent reliability ratings that I could find, but I found one recycled 2009 article that cited statistics with allegedly 2019 data. Other Samsung gaming laptop models were panned for being "cheesy" styling - who cares. They were plastic models anyway, and oddly more money. Samsung is stopping making any Odyssey's until maybe next year they said, and these on hand may be the last the supplying vendor said, and the price would go up - which it did. The fact that Samsung is not really a known laptop to gamers was of no concern to me. This unit does not look like a gaming laptop, and you'll get way with it in the office just fine. A few buyers here were concerned about the weird single center hinge, and worried about rigidity and longevity. My take is that the actual hinged area in the center is much wider than the more common one hinge at either end, so my visual assessment, and opening closing rigidity being fine, is that it will likely be more durable than two hinges of less width.