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CHERLYNN LOW: In addition to
the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10

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Plus, Samsung had
one more device

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to show us here at its UNPACKED
event in Brooklyn, New York.

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I am holding in my
hand the Galaxy Book S.

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This is a 13-inch
Windows laptop that runs

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on a Snapdragon 8cx processor.

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That's an ARM-based processor.

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That further expands the idea
of the Windows on Snapdragon

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platform that Qualcomm
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talked about for years now.

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We first heard of
the Samsung laptop

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using this processor
in December last year

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Qualcomm Tech Summit in Hawaii,
but nothing really specific

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came out.

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But now that I'm
holding it in my hands,

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this is a world of difference.

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This is a really,
really thin laptop

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that, just from
looking at the pictures

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alone, when Samsung
was introducing it,

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it didn't strike me as
all that impressive.

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But holding it just
impresses upon me what a feat

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of engineering this might be.

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This is a device that's about
less than 1/2 inch thick,

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according to a Samsung
rep here, and houses just

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a small selection of ports.

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You've got USB-C on
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as well as a headphone
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There's also a sim card
tray, which also allows

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you to slot in a micro SD card.

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Other than that, that's really
basically all we know about it.

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There's a 13-inch full
HD touchscreen here,

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which is a little
bit disappointing,

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because that's a lower
resolution than I'm

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used to on a laptop these days.

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But as you can tell, while
I'm just kind of playing

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with it here, I could just--

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it's really, really
light, but still

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feels very premium thanks
to this metal body,

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and the very sharp edges and
the profile that it cuts here.

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This version I'm holding on to
here is the rose blush color

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option.

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There's also a mountain
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I still have my concerns, of
course, about Windows on ARM

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being a very powerful
platform at all,

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but you know Microsoft and
Qualcomm have been working

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a lot to make the
Windows experience feel

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like the same on a 8cx
chipset as compared

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to, say, an Intel version.

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The 8cx, if you'll
recall, is supposed

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to bring a lot of performance
and battery benefits

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over previous Snapdragon
made for PC processors.

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The other big promise
with Windows on Snapdragon

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is battery life, and the
Galaxy Book S is supposed

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to last up to 23 hours.

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Now, we're not sure if that's
just pure video playback

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or mixed use, and we'll have
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but for what it's
worth, previous

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Qualcomm-powered laptops
have made that claim

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and more or less met it.

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So this is supposedly
a long-lasting laptop.

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That will be a very good option
for travel in the future.

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In fact, I think it
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the likes of the MacBook
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in terms of design and size.

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Whether or not the
performance will hold up,

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we're just going to have to
wait until we can get our hands

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on one for a full review.

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So for that and all of the
news out of Samsung's UNPACKED

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2019 event, stay
tuned to Engadget.com.

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