Samsung Introduces Lunar Lake-powered Galaxy Book 5 Pro with 25 Hour Battery Life

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Laptops powered by Intel's Lunar Lake family of processors have been seeping out slowly but steadily into the market. Samsung has no intention of sitting idle either, and has lifted the curtains on its Galaxy Book 5 Pro with an impressive AMOLED display and a battery life claim of a stupendous 25 hours. The laptop will be launched in South Korea on January 2, and a global rollout should follow thereafter.

Basically, the Book 5 Pro is the more affordable sibling of the Book 5 Pro 360. As the sharp-eyed amongst you may have already guessed, the Book 5 Pro does not feature the 360° hinge, which allowed the Book 5 Pro 360 to function as a convertible. Now, of course, a lot of people simply do not care about having convertible functionality, and the newly announced notebook is likely targeted at them.




The laptop features a 120 Hz AMOLED screen that comes in 14- and 16-inch variants. Although the resolution was not explicitly mentioned, it's safe to expect similar specifications as the Book 5 Pro 360, which rocked a 2.8K panel for the 16-inch variant. Interestingly, even the processor options have not been declared, although the laptop will most likely sport the same Core Ultra 7 256V processor found in its convertible sibling. Samsung claims a whopping 25-hour battery life, although with normal usage that number will most certainly be rather hard to achieve. A four speaker (2 W+2 W) audio system is also on offer.

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Then Windows runs up an update, Defender does an on access scan for all the files being read or written, and search runs an index. You then have 4h and 50% battery remaining.

You don’t need better batteries or smaller CPU power consumption; we need a less bloated OS.

I don’t take my Surface Laptop Studio (rated 18h) when I need a reliable device on battery; I take an entry level MacBook Pro which cost less than half, and runs over twice as long on a single charge.

 

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Then Windows runs up an update, Defender does an on access scan for all the files being read or written, and search runs an index. You then have 4h and 50% battery remaining.

You don’t need better batteries or smaller CPU power consumption; we need a less bloated OS.

I don’t take my Surface Laptop Studio (rated 18h) when I need a reliable device on battery; I take an entry level MacBook Pro which cost less than half, and runs over twice as long on a single charge.

Exactly. Large reason why Windows is so bad at battery management is, well Windows.

Even on a desktop computer when my NIC (network chip) driver gets updated the PC refuses to stay in sleep. Why? because of a default power management setting in device manager that gets overwritten every time this device driver is updated. And it's not enough to just go in device manager and disable the ability for the NIC to wake the computer. No. That would be far too straightforward.

Instead what i have to do is first go and uncheck the option to Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power. Then click ok. Visually it unchecks both but in actuality the second checkmark is still there. Then i reopen the dialogue box and uncheck the option to Allow this device to wake the computer (the checkmark that disappeared the first time). Then click ok and after that it no longer wakes up by itself.

How the hell is a normal person supposed to know about device manager, drivers and intricacies of these settings? They dont. All they see is their PC refusing to stay in sleep and in case of mobile device the battery draining.

 

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Then Windows runs up an update, Defender does an on access scan for all the files being read or written, and search runs an index. You then have 4h and 50% battery remaining.

You don’t need better batteries or smaller CPU power consumption; we need a less bloated OS.

I don’t take my Surface Laptop Studio (rated 18h) when I need a reliable device on battery; I take an entry level MacBook Pro which cost less than half, and runs over twice as long on a single charge.

Yep, my dreaded work laptop will blow through over half the battery in a 2 hour meeting, and it’s not like I’m doing all that much intensive in the meeting. I’ll even drop brightness and it still doesn’t help. I think Teams meetings are an “intensive” task, and that’s pretty much a high use case scenario for many Windows workers.