Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360
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Even in an era of progressively lighter notebooks, larger thin-and-light laptop options like the 15in Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360 are relatively rare. Sure, you might buy it because it simply won’t break your back. But a stunning multimedia experience and shocking all-day battery life demand additional praise.
Samsung’s Galaxy Book Pro 360 lends credence to Intel’s Evo program, from which this laptop graduated. Thin-and-light laptop keyboards can be iffy, though, and this laptop suffers accordingly. Samsung also loads up the Book Pro 360 with apps for just about everything. Nevertheless, this is a fantastic machine. Read on for why.
DESIGN
Samsung’s Galaxy Book Pro 360 proudly proclaims itself a member of Intel’s flagship Evo line-up via a small sticker on its keyboard deck, and it deserves it. The Galaxy Book Pro 360 is a beautiful piece of engineering, very much in the mould of the Surface Laptop: all cool, glossy metal and minimalist ports. We received our review unit in the Mystic Navy colour scheme, and the blue hue is virtually indistinguishable from black in most lighting.
It’s also the first laptop in a very long while that’s persuaded me to care about how thin it is, especially when folded back flat. Remember, this is a 360-degree convertible, which can be reclined all the way back into tablet mode. The Book Pro 360’s hinge holds the display true even when almost fully reclined, though it oscillates back and forth before settling in.
Less obvious but equally profound is the weight – this is a notebook that you can easily pick up by a corner and set it down somewhere else. Samsung used aluminium to construct the Galaxy Book Pro 360, but it felt absolutely
