Samsung's new flagship laptop rivals the MacBook Pro in all the right ways

ZDNET's key takeaways You can buy the latest Galaxy Book5 Pro for a starting retail price of $1,349. It sports a brilliant 3K touchscreen and large touchpad, plus Intel's Lunar Lake chip delivers next-gen performance. Despite the better hardware, this laptop shares some design flaws as its predecessor. View now at Samsung Through Samsung's trade-in program, you can get up to $500 in instant credit toward the Galaxy Book5 Pro. Whenever a new laptop comes out, consumers expect it to launch with several new features. But sometimes, manufacturers focus on refining a device's use case instead. That's how I felt after testing the Galaxy Book5 Pro, a computer strikingly similar to the Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 from late 2024. Like its predecessor, the laptop is a solid work machine thanks to Intel's Lunar Lake chipset, and the hardware delivers some performance improvements. However, some of my critiques from the previous model carry over to this one. Also: Samsung's new Galaxy tablets beat ... Read full article.