Yesterday Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro360 laptops (each in 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch flavors) alongside the 15.6-inch Galaxy Book Odyssey and 15.6-inch Galaxy Book. But it also quietly put up a new laptop up for pre-order on its US website.
The Galaxy Book Flex2 Alpha is a successor
to the Galaxy Book Flex and comes in the same 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch
configurations. The laptop's screen can rotate 360 degrees, has a QLED panel
with 400 nits of regular brightness (600 nits in Outdoor mode), 1920x1080px
resolution and S Pen support.
You get a choice of Intel's new 11th gen
processors - an i5-1135G7 or the i7-1165G7 with Intel Iris Xe graphics - up to
16GB of LPDDR4x 4267MHz RAM and up to 512GB SSD. Port selection is good with 1
full-sized HDMI, 1 USB-C, two USB-A 3.2, a microSD and a headphone jack.
Samsung promises up to 18 and a half hours
of battery life thanks to the 54Wh battery, which recharges at 40W. Samsung has
loaded the Galaxy Book Flex2 Alpha with its software - Samsung Gallery, Dex,
Flow, Notes, Recovery, Update.
The Galaxy Book Flex2 Alpha is on
pre-order now and will ship May 17. The 13.3-inch model starts at $849 with an
Intel i5-1135G7, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage and goes up to $1,049 for an
i7-1165G7 with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. There's no official
information for now about the 15.6-inch model's price.
