Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360: A beautiful thin-and-light PC

Samsung’s new notebook ranks among the best thin-and-light convertible notebooks we’ve ever reviewed.

- MARK HACHMAN

Even in an era of progressively lighter notebooks (go. pcworld.com/prlt), larger thin-and-light laptop options like the 15-inch Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360 are relatively rare. Sure, you might buy it because it simply won’t break your back. But a stunning multimedia experience and shocking all-day battery life demand additional praise.

Samsung’s Galaxy Book Pro 360 lends credence to Intel’s Evo program (go.pcworld. com/iev0), from which this laptop graduated. Thin-and-light laptop keyboards can be iffy, though, and this laptop suffers accordingly. Samsung also loads up the Book Pro 360 with apps for just about everything. Nevertheless, we’ve awarded this laptop our Editor’s Choice award. Read on for why.

BASIC FEATURES

Samsung offers the Galaxy Book Pro 360 in either a 13.3-inch or a 15.6-inch configuration. Prices start at $1,199 (the minimal 13-inch spec: Core i7/8GB RAM/256GB SSD) and $1,299 for the cheapest 15-inch configuration with 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. It’s worth highlighting that our review unit and price includes a 1TB SSD, a luxury in an era of 256GB and 512GB notebooks.

Note that all of the Galaxy Book Pro 360 models ship with a Samsung S Pen (go. pcworld.com/amsm) in the box, which would normally cost about $32 on Amazon. At press time, Samsung.com (go.pcworld. com/smsm) was the only source for the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360.