#SAMGSUNG IMPRESSION PRO#

They’re certainly put in the shade by any MacBook Pro of the last few years, and they lack a vital sensor of depth. Samsung’s dual bottom-mounted AKG stereo speakers aren’t anything to write home about. This is no gaming laptop, but the likes of the Huawei MateBook X Pro (2022) are offering the option of faster refresh rates without getting into RGB lighting territory. Otherwise, you could argue that a higher refresh rate than the provided 60Hz would have been nice. Not especially sharp, but certainly rich with colour and deep blacks. Media content generally looks great on the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro. The Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro display is, like the Galaxy Book 2 360’s, quite a special one.

Suffice to say, you’ll want to pack a microfibre cloth into your laptop bag as standard. It led me to lean on the touch function or to plug in an external mouse when at my desk.Īnother mention should probably be made of how proudly the keyboard and its surrounding soft-touch material wears those greasy fingerprints. The sheer size of it, and the fact that the physically clicky buttons are only effective at the lower extremities, meant that the natural typing position of my hands could make access awkward. You’ll find a suitably large and responsive trackpad below this keyboard. There’s a fingerprint reader stashed behind the power button in the top right corner of the keyboard, and it’s sufficiently quick and reliable. The top row of function keys double up for key operations like adjusting volume and screen brightness, though you’ll need to hold the Fn key in order to use them in this way, of course. They’re backlit too, for those late-night assignments. The feel is perhaps a little soft, creating a muted pitter-patter rather than a loud clickety-clack, but that makes them well suited to use in public if you don’t want to feel self-conscious. The keys are solid, well spaced, and there’s just enough travel to them. The latter feels a little crammed in there, but the inclusion is welcome nonetheless, and the arrow keys are pleasingly easy to find and distinguish. The Galaxy Book 2 Pro has a fairly typical full-sized keyboard, complete with a separate number pad.

Responsive trackpad, if awkwardly positioned.

Comfortable typing with not much travel.

But Samsung has provided a pleasingly flexible and varied selection of connections nonetheless. That’s a really nice array, especially for an ultraportable in 2022, even if I would prefer to have two USB-A ports, and it’s a shame that MicroSD slot isn’t a full-size SD card reader. You also get a 3.5mm jack, a MicroSD slot, and of course a SIM tray for that 5G connectivity.

On the connection front you get a full-sized HDMI port, two USB-C ports – one of which supports Thunderbolt 4 – and one USB-A port.

Samgsung impression