Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Book6 series of laptops at CES in January – which were powered by Intel’s new 18A Core Ultra Series 3 processors. There’s also an Edge model coming – “Edge” is what Samsung calls its ARM-powered laptops.
We know this because of a German retailer cyberport Immediately took action and published the Samsung Galaxy Book6 Edge page on its online store. This appears to be the base 16″ model with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. The entire kit costs €2,200.
The laptop is powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite, specifically the X2E-88-100 variant. It has an 18-core CPU (of which 12 are prime cores and 6 are performance cores) and an XE-90 GPU clocked at 1.7GHz. It uses LPDDR5X RAM on a 128-bit bus (152GB/s). All X2 Elite variants have 80 TOPS NPU (that’s INT8 performance) for those vaunted AI features in Windows 11.
The Galaxy Book6 Edge features a 16″ OLED display (note: this is not a touchscreen) with a 2,880 x 1,800px resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. The screen has an anti-glare coating and can achieve 500 nits of brightness.
The laptop is only 12.3 mm thick and weighs 1.55 kg. It comes with a 61.8Wh battery that will last for 22 hours on a single charge. It’s unclear if there will be a smaller 14″ model.
In terms of connectivity, there’s an HDMI 2.1 port, two USB 4.0 and one USB 3.2 port (this one is USB-A), a headphone jack, and a microSD slot. Wireless connectivity is handled by tri-band Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. Apart from this, there is also a fingerprint reader and a 1080p webcam on board.
A look at the ports available on the Galaxy Book6 Edge
While you wait for Samsung to make the Galaxy Book6 Edge official, you can check out the European prices of the Intel-powered models – the 16” Book6 Pro starts at €1,900, but the base 16” Book6 starts at €1,250. Note that the vanilla model uses an IPS LCD, while the Pro (and the even more expensive Ultra) uses an OLED panel.
