Tech Advisor - UK (2020-07)

102 TECH ADVISOR • JULY 2020

REVIEW

itcomestolongbatterylife.Theoriginal,outdated

MicrosoftSurfaceLaptopoutperformstoday’sGalaxy

BookS,andalsodeliversover 11 hoursofbatterylife.

But the recent HP Spectre x360 13t delivers almost

16 hours of battery life on top of a similar 1080p

screen,witha powerful10th-genCorei7 chipunder

thehood–andforasimilarprice.(Becauseoftheapp

compatibility issues, we can’t directly compare the two

onmorethana singleperformancebenchmark,but

it’sstilltelling:Samsung’sGalaxyBookSgeneratesa

PCMarkWorkscoreof2,121,whiletheSpectrex360

13Tis 79 percentfaster,at3,807.)Thegreatfailingof

the Microsoft Surface Pro X is that it couldn’t deliver

The Galaxy Book S shows Samsung has carefully

thought through the mobile computing experience