The familiar situation I find myself in is that I'm Dan Ackerman, and this is a laptop, the new Samsung Galaxy Book S, unpacked at Samsung expecting to see new phones. Several people said to me, "Oh, Dan, you're here does that mean they're gonna have a laptop?" I said no, I'm just here to see the phones and stuff, but lo and behold, big surprise - they actually didn't have a laptop.

This is one of a very small breed of laptops that run Windows but not with Intel processors. It's a special hybrid, almost the phone meeting the laptop because it runs in a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor instead. Now, that lets you do some very interesting things, very power efficient. It can have basically instant on, almost like your phone can just turn on in a flash, because it's running a very phone-like chip underneath.

It can just know stay in a sleep mode wake up; you don't worry about power management too much and that means they claim it can run for about 23 hours on a single charge. That's obviously a lot longer than even the longest-lasting standard Windows Intel-based laptop. If all this sounds kind of familiar, it's because we have heard of this before just not a little while a couple of years ago.

Qualcomm came out and said they were going to start working with a whole bunch of PC makers to make essentially this type of product - the body of a laptop, the brains of a smartphone Qualcomm Snapdragon plus Windows and a laptop form factor. The Asus Nova Go is one of those, HP had a version, Lenovo had a version, and they all work pretty decent.

They all pretty much did what they said they were going to do; they did last a long time, nobody really had close to that 24-hour mark but you'd had some compromises. For what they charge for those - which were you know more than Chromebooks even though the bodies were a little less impressive than Chromebooks.

The price was a little more than you'd expect to pay for something that wasn't an Intel-powered Windows laptop; they fell a little bit short. I'm not gonna lie, I found the performance in other Snapdragon laptops have been a little on the sluggish side. This combination of arm plus Windows was just buggy enough but there were some incompatibility issues.

It's just not everything you expect to work with Windows software-wise, services-wise worked on this arm platform 99.5% of it is but the point five percent that didn't happened to be some of the stuff that I wanted to do so we found there were some incompatibility issues there as well.

So, they had the high price, slow performance but battery life was really good. It did not live up to the crazy hype, and nobody made one of these for a couple of years. We saw the first wave and that was it. Now, Samsung is back here with their version, the Galaxy Book S, on paper sounds really familiar.

It's got a full HD screen, super thin this one is about two pounds, and it really does look very premium and it's got a new generation of Snapdragon processor so we are gonna have to wait to get this thing in our lab start testing it to see if the latest version of arm-powered laptops succeeds where the earlier generation fell short. I'm Dan Ackerman, and that is the Samsung Galaxy Book S.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwell this is a familiar situation to find myself in I'm Dan Ackerman and this is a laptop this is the new Samsung Galaxy book s and when I arrived here at Samsung unpacked expecting to see new phones several people said to me Oh Dan you're here does that mean they're gonna have a laptop I said no I'm just here to see the phones and stuff but lo and behold big surprise they actually didn't have a laptop so it goes to show you what I know and it's not just any laptop this is one of a very small breed of laptops that run Windows but not with Intel processors it's a special hybrid almost the phone meeting the laptop because it runs in a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor instead now that lets you do some very interesting things very power efficient it can have basically instant on almost like your phone can just turn on in a flash because it's running a very phone like chip underneath it can just you know stay in a sleep mode wake up you don't worry about power management too much and that means they claim it can run for about 23 hours on a single charge and that's obviously a lot longer than even the longest-lasting standard Windows Intel based laptop now if all this sounds kind of familiar it's because we have heard of this before just not a little while a couple of years ago Qualcomm came out and said they were going to start working with a whole bunch of PC makers to make essentially this type of product the body of a laptop the brains of a smartphone Qualcomm Snapdragon plus windows and a laptop form factor now the asus nova go is one of those HP had a version lenovo had a version and they all work pretty decent they all pretty much did what they said they were going to do they did last a long time nobody really had close to that 24-hour mark but you'd had some compromises and for what they charge for those which were you know more than Chromebooks even though the bodies were a little icing Chromebooks but the price was a little more than you'd expect to pay for something that wasn't an Intel powered Windows laptop they fell a little bit short I'm not gonna lie he found the performance in in the other Snapdragon laptops have a few years ago it'd be a little on the sluggish side and this combination of arm plus Windows was just I would say it was buggy enough but there were there were enough incompatibility it's just not everything you expect to work with Windows software wise services wise worked on this arm platform 99.5% of it is but the point five percent that didn't happened to be some of the stuff that I wanted to do so we found there were some incompatibility issues there as well so they had the high price slow performance battery life was really good but did not live up to the crazy hype so nobody made one of these for a couple years we saw the first wave and that was it so now Samsung is back here with their version the galaxy book s now on paper sounds really familiar it's got a full HD screen it's super thin this one is about two pounds and it really does look very premium and it's got a new generation of Snapdragon processor so we are gonna have to wait we can get this thing in our lab start testing it to see if the latest version of arm powered laptops succeeds where the earlier generation fell short I'm Darrin Akron and that is the Samsung Galaxy book atwell this is a familiar situation to find myself in I'm Dan Ackerman and this is a laptop this is the new Samsung Galaxy book s and when I arrived here at Samsung unpacked expecting to see new phones several people said to me Oh Dan you're here does that mean they're gonna have a laptop I said no I'm just here to see the phones and stuff but lo and behold big surprise they actually didn't have a laptop so it goes to show you what I know and it's not just any laptop this is one of a very small breed of laptops that run Windows but not with Intel processors it's a special hybrid almost the phone meeting the laptop because it runs in a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor instead now that lets you do some very interesting things very power efficient it can have basically instant on almost like your phone can just turn on in a flash because it's running a very phone like chip underneath it can just you know stay in a sleep mode wake up you don't worry about power management too much and that means they claim it can run for about 23 hours on a single charge and that's obviously a lot longer than even the longest-lasting standard Windows Intel based laptop now if all this sounds kind of familiar it's because we have heard of this before just not a little while a couple of years ago Qualcomm came out and said they were going to start working with a whole bunch of PC makers to make essentially this type of product the body of a laptop the brains of a smartphone Qualcomm Snapdragon plus windows and a laptop form factor now the asus nova go is one of those HP had a version lenovo had a version and they all work pretty decent they all pretty much did what they said they were going to do they did last a long time nobody really had close to that 24-hour mark but you'd had some compromises and for what they charge for those which were you know more than Chromebooks even though the bodies were a little icing Chromebooks but the price was a little more than you'd expect to pay for something that wasn't an Intel powered Windows laptop they fell a little bit short I'm not gonna lie he found the performance in in the other Snapdragon laptops have a few years ago it'd be a little on the sluggish side and this combination of arm plus Windows was just I would say it was buggy enough but there were there were enough incompatibility it's just not everything you expect to work with Windows software wise services wise worked on this arm platform 99.5% of it is but the point five percent that didn't happened to be some of the stuff that I wanted to do so we found there were some incompatibility issues there as well so they had the high price slow performance battery life was really good but did not live up to the crazy hype so nobody made one of these for a couple years we saw the first wave and that was it so now Samsung is back here with their version the galaxy book s now on paper sounds really familiar it's got a full HD screen it's super thin this one is about two pounds and it really does look very premium and it's got a new generation of Snapdragon processor so we are gonna have to wait we can get this thing in our lab start testing it to see if the latest version of arm powered laptops succeeds where the earlier generation fell short I'm Darrin Akron and that is the Samsung Galaxy book at\n"