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Samsung Galaxy Book5 360 review: an exquisite convertible laptop with a bit too much noise
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Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360: Two-minute review
There’s no denying that the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 is a premium laptop. Everything about it screams ‘high-end’, from the sleek chassis to the fantastic performance. Is it one of the best ultrabooks? Having spent a week using it for this review, I feel confident saying so.
Of course, such premium design quality means a premium price tag to match, with even the base configuration starting at an eye-watering $1,699 / £1,599 (around AU$2,615). That’s a high asking price, but the Book5 Pro 360 puts a lot of work into justifying it.
For starters, the overall performance here is strong. The Intel Core Ultra 7 256V processor powering this laptop performs admirably across a wide range of workloads, even capable of handling triple-A games with the help of resolution upscaling. The battery life is also truly top-notch.
In terms of build quality, the Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 feels like it belongs among the best laptops, with a premium feel to the chassis and a sturdy 360-degree display hinge (making it a prime candidate for one of the best 2-in-1 laptops). With a good range of physical ports and a gorgeous AMOLED display to boot, this is one laptop I was seriously reluctant to send back once my testing was complete.
Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 review: Price and availability
- Starts at $1,699 / £1,599 (around AU$2,615)
- Available now in the US and UK
- Only one configuration available in the US
Starting at $1,699 / £1,599 (around AU$2,615), the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 doesn’t have a wealth of configurations to choose from. In fact, US shoppers can only purchase one specific model, which features a 1TB SSD, 16GB of RAM, and an Intel Core Ultra 7 CPU.
If you’re in the UK, you can pick up that same configuration for £1,799, or a slightly less powerful version with 512GB of storage and a Core Ultra 5 chip for the aforementioned £1,599 price tag.
It’s some pretty steep pricing, especially in the UK – although as always, it should be noted that British pricing includes tax, and there’s no telling how the current tariff situation will affect the actual retail price in the States. I’ve seen costlier laptops, and the Book5 Pro 360 lives up to its price tag, but this isn’t one for the faint of heart (or slim of wallet).
Sorry to our readers over in Australia, as it seems that Samsung hasn’t seen fit to bring any of the Galaxy Book laptop series to the land down under (at least, not according to its own online store). That means you’ll be looking at third-party importers if you want to get your hands on a Book5 model.
Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 review: Specs
Here are the specs for the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360:
| Header Cell – Column 0 | Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 (model reviewed) |
|---|---|
Starting Price | $1,699 / £1,799 (around AU$2,615) |
CPU | Up to Intel Core Ultra 7 256V |
GPU | Intel Arc 140V integrated graphics |
RAM | 16GB |
Storage | Up to 1TB SSD |
Display | 16-inch WQXGA+ (2880 x 1800) AMOLED 120Hz touchscreen |
Ports | 2x Thunderbolt 4 USB-C, 1x USB-A 3.2, 3.5mm combi audio jack, HDMI 2.1, microSD |
Wireless | Wi-Fi 7 / Bluetooth 5.4 |
Weight | 3.73lbs / 1.69kg |
Dimensions | 14 x 9.9 x 0.5 inches / 35.5 x 25.1 x 1.37mcm |
Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 review: Design
- Best-in-class build quality
- Excellent display
- Tablet functionality is merely alright
Upon first unboxing it, the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 immediately feels like a high-end piece of hardware. It’s just half an inch thick, and there’s not an ounce of wasted space here; the chassis is carefully sculpted around the 16-inch display, with a tiny bezel that also houses the 1080p webcam. The whole thing feels durable and well-constructed.
Despite featuring a full-scale keyboard that features a numpad on the right-hand side, typing on the Book5 Pro 360 never felt cramped in my testing. The individual keys are sufficiently spaced and offer a decent amount of travel for a thin-and-light ultrabook. There’s a fingerprint reader for more secure logins, and you can also use Windows Hello to unlock the laptop with facial recognition.
The trackpad is very responsive with a robust click and no noticeable flex in the housing, even with firm presses – although as usual, I’d recommend connecting a third-party mouse instead. I didn’t notice any issues with the palm rejection while typing, which is always a relief.
The 360-degree hinge that lets you flip into tablet mode is pleasingly sturdy (no annoying wobbles here), though I’d perhaps say that tablet functionality is the weakest feather in Samsung’s cap. The Book5 Pro 360 is simply a bit too large and heavy to really work as a tablet device; don’t expect this to beat any of the best tablets in that regard.
That being said, the touchscreen is fantastic; a 3K AMOLED display with excellent brightness, sharpness, and color reproduction. The Samsung S Pen comes bundled with every Book5 Pro 360, and while I’m no artist, it seems to work very well, which could be a potential boon for digital creatives. It would be nice if the S Pen could be garaged or snap magnetically to the chassis, though.
In terms of physical connectivity, the Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 features a great selection of ports: two Thunderbolt 4-enabled USB-Cs, one USB-A, HDMI video output for connecting a second screen, headphone jack, and even a microSD card reader – a worthwhile inclusion for photographers. Wireless connectivity is handled by Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4, exemplifying the cutting-edge nature of this laptop.
I also have to discuss the software side of things, since virtually every laptop manufacturer these days is dead set on cramming as many proprietary apps into their laptops as possible. These can range from somewhat useful to borderline malware, and are often among the first things I uninstall on a new device.
Mercifully, Samsung’s integrated software is largely unobtrusive, and can be ignored entirely after the initial setup if you’re so inclined. The tools on offer are best employed by users who already own another Galaxy device, with the Multi Control feature letting you access your Samsung phone or tablet directly from the laptop. You can even use a Galaxy Tab as a second screen, although I didn’t have one on hand to test this myself.
Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 review: Performance
- Strong all-round performance
- Intel Core Ultra chip gives local AI functionality
- Even capable of triple-A gaming (with some tweaks)
I was seriously impressed with the performance of the Intel Core Ultra 7 256V processor at the core of the Galaxy Book5 Pro 360. Outside of dedicated testing, I found the laptop remarkably fast and responsive, capable of handling multitasking workloads with ease.
Although the lack of a discrete GPU means that it’s not best suited for seriously intensive work like video editing or 3D modeling, it can still handle a variety of daily tasks. My usual workload involves keeping a minimum of ten Chrome tabs open at once, usually with Spotify running in the background and the occasional bit of image editing in GIMP, and the Book5 Pro 360 had zero issues with that.
Samsung Galaxy Book5 360 benchmarks
Here’s how the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 performed in our suite of benchmark tests:
3DMark: Night Raid: 17,990; Fire Strike: 8,874; Time Spy: 3,891; Steel Nomad: 1,677
Cinebench R24: Multi-core: 588; Single-core: 124
Geekbench 6.4: Multicore: 10,630; Single-core: 2,635
Geekbench AI: Single Precision Score: 3,165; Half Precision Score: 1,412; Quantized Score: 6,286
PCMark 10: 6,767
Crossmark: Overall: 1,770; Productivity: 1,640; Creativity: 1,996; Responsiveness: 1,558
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII: (1080p, Medium, No Upscaling): 34fps; (1080p, High, No Upscaling): 22fps
Cyberpunk 2077: (1080p, Low, No Upscaling): 39fps; (1080p, Ultra, No Upscaling): 23fps
Battery Life (TechRadar movie test): 20 hours, 3 minutes
Over on the test bench, the Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 scored well across the board, with good performance in synthetic rendering and productivity tests. It’s not world-beating performance (the best MacBooks will give this laptop a run for its money), but it’s certainly on par with comparable Windows laptops.
Gaming performance is seriously impressive considering that it’s all running on integrated Intel Arc graphics. Cyberpunk 2077 was just about playable at 1080p with the lowest graphical preset, but turn on upscaling (either via Intel’s own XeSS tech or AMD’s open-source FSR 3.0) and you can easily get a stable 30+ frames per second even on medium settings.
You might notice above that the recorded scores for Civilization VII – a less demanding title than Cyberpunk – look a bit low. Despite multiple attempts with different settings, I couldn’t coax any better performance out of that game, and turning on upscaling actually made the framerate worse. Other games (including Borderlands 3 and Alan Wake 2) ran as expected, so it’s possible there was a driver issue or similar obstacle I simply didn’t have time to properly diagnose and resolve in my testing.
Lastly, the Book5 Pro 360 features a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU) on its Intel Core Ultra 7 chip, designed to handle local AI workloads (like some of the functionality of Microsoft Copilot). The NPU performance is solid, but it’s worth noting that for running more intensive AI tasks – like training your own LLM – you’ll see better performance on a laptop with a discrete Nvidia GPU.
Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 review: Battery life
- Fantastic battery lifespan
- Outlasts many competing laptops
- Charges quickly
Samsung makes some bold claims about the 76Wh battery of the Galaxy Book5 Pro 360, suggesting that it offers up to 25 hours of continuous use. It didn’t quite live up to that figure in my testing, but it still delivered a very respectable 20 hours and 3 minutes of looped video playback.
We run our battery test at 50% brightness with Windows 11’s ‘best efficiency’ power preset enabled, so that 25-hour figure actually sounds pretty achievable if you really tried to squeeze every last drop from the battery with minimum brightness and Energy Saver turned on. Regardless, it’s an impressive result that comfortably defeats many competing laptops. The only one to beat it in recent memory is the 2025 Intel Core Ultra Dell XPS 13, but that laptop crucially has a much smaller (and therefore less power-hungry) display.
Charging is also fast, with power delivery via Thunderbolt 4 taking the battery from empty to full in approximately 90 minutes. The only downside is having to sacrifice a USB-C port while charging, but with plenty of other ports available, it’s a very minor concern.
Should you buy the Samsung Galaxy Book5 360?
Attributes | Notes | Rating |
|---|---|---|
Price | The bundled S Pen is a nice extra, but the price tag is still fairly high – though not entirely unreasonable for a premium ultrabook like this. | 3.5 / 5 |
Design | Although the tablet mode is a bit unwieldy due to the large screen, this is a fantastically designed laptop overall. | 4.5 / 5 |
Performance | Performance is strong across the board, with good gaming capabilities and a discrete NPU for AI workloads. | 4.5 / 5 |
Battery | 20 hours of battery life places the Book5 Pro 360 among the best of the best when it comes to laptop longevity. | 5 / 5 |
Overall rating | If you’re looking for a premium Windows device that beats out most of the competition, the Galaxy Book Pro 360 is a strong choice. | 4.25 / 5 |
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Samsung Galaxy Book5 360: Also consider
| Header Cell – Column 0 | Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 | Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 | Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch (M4, 2024) |
|---|---|---|---|
Starting Price | From $1,699 / £1,599 (around AU$2,615) | From $999.99 / £1,049.99 / AU$1,899 | From $2,499 / £2,499 / AU$3,999 |
CPU | Up to Intel Core Ultra 7 256V | Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite | Up to Apple M4 Max (16-core) |
GPU | Intel Arc 140V integrated graphics | Qualcomm Adreno GPU | Up to 40-core integrated GPU |
RAM | 16GB DDR5 | Up to 32GB LPDDR5x | Up to 48GB unified memory |
Storage | Up to 1TB SSD | Up to 1TB SSD | Up to 1TB SSD |
Display | 16-inch WQXGA+ (2880 x 1800) AMOLED 120Hz touchscreen | 13.8-inch 2304 x 1536, 3:2 120Hz HDR touchscreen | 16-inch 3456 x 2234 Liquid Retina XDR display |
Ports | 2x Thunderbolt 4 USB-C, 1x USB-A 3.2, 1x 3.5mm combi audio jack, 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x microSD card reader | 2x USB 4 Type C, 1x USB Type A Gen 3.1, 1x 3.5mm combo jack, 1x Surface connect port, 1x microSD card reader | 3x Thunderbolt 5 (USB-C), 1x HDMI, 1x SDXC card slot, 1x 3.5mm headphone jack, MagSafe 3 |
Wireless | Wi-Fi 7 / Bluetooth 5.4 | WiFi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 | Wi-Fi 6e, Bluetooth 5.3 |
Weight | 3.73lbs / 1.69kg | 2.96lbs / 1.34kg | 4.8 lbs / 2.2kg |
Dimensions | 14 x 9.9 x 0.5 inches / 35.5 x 25.1 x 1.37mcm | 11.85 x 8.67 x 0.69 inches / 30.1 x 22.0 x 1.75cm | 14.01 x 9.77 x 0.66 inches / 35.6 x 24.8 x 1.7cm |
How I tested the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360
- Replaced my usual laptop for one week
- Performed a variety of everyday tasks
- Ran our usual suite of synthetic and gaming tests
As I usually do for any laptop review, I replaced my daily driver (the ever-dependable HP Spectre x360) with the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 for one week, using it for both my regular work and a bit of entertainment outside of the nine-to-five.
My day-to-day workload mostly involves editing spreadsheets and text documents, researching online in Chrome, and some light image editing (usually to produce fun pictures for spicy opinion articles). Beyond that, I also used the Book5 Pro 360 for some gaming, playing Borderlands and Stardew Valley with my partner, as well as finally catching up on Dandadan season 2 on Netflix.
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First reviewed August 2025
