The Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra is a very expensive Windows laptop with some hard-to-overlook shortcomings.
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II know I’m not the only person who wants a MacBook Pro for Windows: a sleek, ultra powerful, super portable machine with an excellent screen and high-quality build. Samsung’s Galaxy Book6 Ultra certainly tries. It’s got a beautiful screen and a nice design, and it’s as solidly built as laptops come.
It also looks, well, almost exactly like a MacBook Pro, to the point where I occasionally use the wrong keyboard shortcuts out of habit. Other Windows laptops have at times incorporated some MacBook design influences, but the Galaxy houses so many of them that it’s obvious what Samsung was going for.
Imitating things people want is understandable. But Samsung also repeats some of Apple’s previous failings, like including a terrible keyboard and a surprisingly bad webcam. And it’s charging high-end MacBook Pro money for a device that doesn’t perform like one.
