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Review on πŸ“± Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 13.3” Laptop: QLED Display, Intel Core i7, 8GB Memory, 512GB SSD, Long Battery Life, Bluetooth S Pen – Royal Blue (NP930QCG-K01US) by Ryan Moran

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Pretty solid overall

Used this 15 inch screen as an extra sofa laptop and special lighting computer for about 2 weeks. Short version: Pros - lightweight - expandable storage - powerful enough for its size imo - bright screen - tablet mode/touchscreen fully foldable - better than expected gaming performance Cons/cons - NOT expandable ram-compact keyboard size and key spacing (that's just my annoyance though on all these lightweight laptops) - also under the keys, this fingerprint thingy doubles the right shift, a bit annoying as I have to keep looking - no indication whether numlock is on or not, it's quite annoying, so like Pos1/ End /pg dwn/pg up are built into the numeric keypad. I'm a fairly experienced user at navigating with the cursor in the terminal and other things, and I use these keys a lot. It might be possible to have a small LED under the num lock key to show if it's on or not . - the color on the keys seems faint, I still took good care of the thing and somehow O The key has a very small nickname on the side and the keyboard light shines through the longer version: ok so I don't buy a lot of PCs, I collect die and I haven't used Windows constantly on the device for years as my main machines ran Linux and BSD with Windows in a VM where required. it is a reliable device. I wanted something that I could use Lightroom and all my photos on and then back up to my NAS and maybe play some light video games. so far two weeks in it has been a champion. I upgraded the HDD to a Samsung 970 which was fairly easy, booted into Linux from a USB drive, moved the DD to another USB drive, replaced the m2 stick and then booted back into Linux, then reverted the image to the new m2 ride. Lightroom seems to be running very smoothly after moving my photos, Skyrim seems fine to run around but hasn't been in intense battles yet, lower cars on low/medium just running around the world seem fine . It's definitely not a 60fps gaming rig, but you can tinker a bit if you're lying on the couch with something boring on TV. I was worried it wouldn't even be able to run plain old games without a dedicated GPU, but so far it's pretty good at it.

Pros
  • Easy to read control panel
Cons
  • Functionality