Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro 5G (15.6in)

A wafer-thin 15in laptop that's packed with powerful cores, and its battery life is simply staggering

- TIM DANTON

PRICE £1,041 (£1,249 inc VAT) from samsung.com/uk 

While I compared the Galaxy Book2 360 on the previous pages to the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1, the Galaxy Book2 Pro 5G elevates itself above Dell's bulky XPS 15 (see issue 328, p62) due to its skinniness. Instead, the 15.6in Book2 Pro's closest rival is the LG Gram 16 (see issue 320, p50), but while that laptop shares the Samsung's featherlike 1.2kg weight, it's made to look positively chubby at 16.8mm thick. The Book2 Pro 5G is a simply ludicrous 11.7mm thin.

It's worth pausing, then, to appreciate what we have here. A super-skinny laptop with a 15.6in AMOLED screen that can keep going on a single charge for more than 12 hours, and still feels well built thanks to an aluminium lid and chassis. It begs the question of what Samsung has left out in the process.

Wireless connectivity certainly isn't on that list. Alongside Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.1, it also has integrated 5G. That's an extra that other manufacturers charge hundreds of pounds for, yet Samsung is including it in a laptop that costs £1,249. The SIM slot is sandwiched between a microSD card slot and USB-A port on the right-hand side of the chassis, with two USB-C ports (one of which supports Thunderbolt 4) on the left.