By Joe Osborne
Samsung wants to make the 2-in-1 device work – you could say it’s crucial to the Apple-trouncing ecosystem the company wants to build. The company’s latest attempt at that is the Galaxy Book, a spiritual successor to its Galaxy TabPro S of last year.
The Galaxy Book, frankly, doesn’t do a ton different from the Windows tablet that preceded it, but rather refines it with some marked improvements, namely a far better keyboard cover than before. However, what Samsung’s tablet needed wasn’t improvements on the current design so much as perhaps a different design altogether.
Furthermore, for every improvement made here, there seems to be an almost equal detraction. The result is a Windows tablet that’s just fine in construction and performance, but one that continues to lag behind rivals.
Price and availability
Samsung sees itself in a tough position regarding how it’s priced the Galaxy Book. While it comes in both 10.6- and- 12-inch varieties, the more widely comparable 12-incher starts at $1,129 (about £867, AU$1,510).
That price gets you a Windows 10 tablet housing an Intel Core i5 processor (Kaby Lake), 4GB of memory, and a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD) behind a gorgeous Super AMOLED touchscreen at 2,160 x 1,440 resolution, and …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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