Galaxy Book4 Edge (Snapdragon X Elite) - Real-world REVIEW!

Howdy YouTube,

All right! Five days in, heavy use, I think I'm finally ready to offer my full opinion on what works, what doesn't, and what surprised me the most when it comes to Samsung's first Snapdragon X Elite product.

Though I spent decades as a professional reviewer of laptops and other products before that, as always, this will not be your conventional review. There are plenty of benchmarks available from plenty of sources who do a great job with those; my job today, by contrast, will be to boil it all down and condense this into a perfectly digestible, balanced, and realistic take on a product that I purchased with my own money, with no allegiances to any manufacturer or any company.

There's not a lot of editing that goes into *anything* I produce—it's all in fun, but I hope you'll find it uncommonly insightful given my background. Questions? Comments? If you appreciate my content, it means the world to me if you'll subscribe, so that way when I post my next video several months from now (bwahaha) you'll be the first to hear about it! ;-D

thanks, Steve

[RichCow-xebz]

Iv had mine for a few days now. I'm not sure what this guy is going on about! I can only think he was sponsored by apple to talk garbage about the device. Trust me go elsewhere for a decent unbiased review. This guy is off his head

[bassyey]

It's probably the same as the coating in S24 Ultra. It was so good. I tested in stores and stores are bright. I was only able to afford S24+ but it came with a anti-reflecting screen protector, and it's great too. Probably my favorite feature this 2024.

[nafeeahnaf]

Getting the 16 inch Book 4 edge with the 84-100 top of the line X Elite variant, hoping it is quieter, has much better battery life and just doesn't burn me from getting insanely hot compared to my 12th gen i5 intel Asus Vivobook that spins the fans in full speed from just having a few tabs open and watching Youtube along with getting only 4 to 5 hours of battery life which is just trash. I always take my laptop to classes and libraries and hate needing to take a charger everywhere.

[Theneo]

The way I am using my 16" 80-100 galaxy book 4 edge is basically as a really nice content consumption device, and also as a thin client. I have a server with a workstation VM running good old x86 windows 11. This seems to be a fantastic device for this given all of the bits and pieces with battery life and screen quality etc.

[eds]

Finally someone putting it on best power efficiency. I understand one's use case differs. But it makes more sense on battery to put in best power efficiency. Even with mid to high brightness that's impressive. For my use case I could see myself getting past 15hrs.

[aacdallas]

It sucks when you have to wonder if you're going to return it or not bc I'm in the same boat with mine too right now. I like the laptop but I'm not in love with it. Unfortunately, i ordered the new M7D monitor along with it and that definitely had quality control issues which I'm in the process of returning/repurchasing.

[akin]

Too many driver issues outside of MS apps. However, it could be updated and fixed by the holiday shopping season. Early adoptors are going to struggle. Late adopters will reap all the rewards.

[andyH_England]

Avoiding the elephant in the room that few business users should be buying these chips currently, my experience with the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro quality control (QC) has been outstanding. They are reliable and well-built, with continuous updates fixing issues in the early days. They have taken knocks, and generally, I would recommend them on QC.

But...I'm not too fond of the keyboard, especially the 16-inch one. The trackpad is frustrating, and the speakers are woeful. For those quality-of-life features, I would not recommend Samsung laptops.

[cpaek]

Before anyone can say these arm laptops will make a dent is to improve compatibility. Performance is secondary to compatibility and their prism emulator should constantly be updated to get more apps working. If not, intel and amd have nothing to worry about.

[LeHung-srqd]

I like this practical review. You even have a same thought considering between surface pro, slim 7x and this edge4. I changed from iphone to ss24 ultra recently and love it especially the screen. I'm intending to sell my macbook m1 pro to this new Snapdragon chips. It looks interesting

Come down now yo surface pro 11, book7, slim 7x and this edge4.

I love oled screen therefore the slim 7x and this edge 4 really tick all of my box. The only downside from slim 7x is the 90hz screen because I'm afraid that I already got used to the 120hz on the mac pro. Is the 90 hz gonna be noticeable?
Would you recommend this edge4 for the compatibility with my ss24ultra? or the slim 7x for price/performance ?or the surface pro 11 for portability?

Thank you for the great video. Already subbed

[abdulrahmanal-khaldi]

Thank you for the clarification.
Is it possible to add a larger SSD, such as a Samsung Book Pro 3, because I changed the size of the SSD from 512 to 2 TB?

[andyH_England]

Just a point of reference, my M2 MB Airs get between 18-20 hours SOT at 33% brightness during office, browser, and media consumption. I was disappointed that even the Vivobook X Elite, running the lowest SKU with a 30% larger battery, struggled to get more than 12 hours of SOT. I think that the main selling point of battery life is moot due to the upcoming AMD and Intel (M4 as well), so why buy Snapdragon laptops when the Galaxy Book5 Pro has the same design, and the new Intel will be priced competitively, have none of the legacy issues, and be as efficient?

[sham]

what do you mean by shine on the keyboard? can it be cleaned, or are the letters fading off?

[doubly_negative]

Two questions:
1. How does Prism emulation performance and efficiency compare with Rosettta 2? Does it take more battery hit (comparatively)?
2. Do ×86 applications which do not require any kind of drivers able to run flawlessely?
I am seeing mixed reviews from everyone so it is difficult to determine.

[williamcopeland]

Should have gone with the Surface brotha. None of those issues are there on the Laptop 7.

[asfonseca]

Hey, I know you mentioned the smudge issue on keyboards and used Apple's MacBooks as an example. The same behavior can be observed on Apple's MacBook keyboards. So, I think that comparison might not be entirely fair. You see, I've used different MacBook models over the years, and I can tell you that Apple isn't exactly the best when it comes to laptop keyboards. Remember those faulty Butterfly keyboards they had for a while? Those were a real pain!

[Money-Fast-Plan-a]

You're a beacon of positivity! 🌟 -- "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.."

[ovyarad]

Can i run Sketchup pro on windows arm and how is it?? Thanks...

[TaylorABell]

Do all the viewers a favor and show each and every Samsung app that connects the phone and pc. ie Samsung notes, Samsung browser.

[Eli-tc]

Have you been using it to watch videos online? I got the 16" one, and noticed random issues playing videos on browsers both Firefox and Chrome (sometimes the video plays fine, sometimes there's just a green screen with audio, sometimes the whole page blanks out for a second, seems to be fine after I turned off hardware decoding, wondering if this is a driver issue that'll get fixed). Also the laptop startup takes 5-10 seconds before the Samsung boot shows up, maybe the laptop I got has hardware issues.