ZDNET's key takeaways The Galaxy Book5 Pro is on sale at Amazon for $1,444.
It sports a brilliant 3K AMOLED touchscreen, large touchpad, and Intel's next-gen Lunar Lake processor for impressive performance.
Despite the hardware, this laptop shares some design flaws as its predecessor. View now at Amazon
For a limited time, the Galaxy Book5 Pro is on sale for $1,444 at Amazon. That equates to a $255 discount.
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: This laptop docking station made it easy to replace my PC - and it's super slim
My review unit had an Intel Ultra 7 256V CPU with 16GB of RAM. When I received the Galaxy Book5 Pro, I immediately tested its performance, and, unsurprisingly, it performed quite well. Running 50 open tabs with videos playing across multiple Chrome windows and downloading apps simultaneously did not slow the computer down one iota.
Benchmark tests provided some further insight. If you look at the PCMark 10 results table below, you'll notice the Galaxy Book5 Pro has better processing power than its older counterpart, the Galaxy Book5 Pro 360. It even boasts better image rendering on Cinebench R23. The laptop does lose to the Pro 360 in terms of graphical output, although not by much.
Cinebench R23 MC PCMark 10 results 3D Mark results Galaxy Book5 Pro 10,293 7,196 3,188 Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 8,467 6,988 3,218
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