Is the new Galaxy Book6 Pro a productivity powerhouse?

The search for a laptop that can do it has been one that’s preoccupied tech reviewers like the team here at T3 for years and years – but in recent times, we’ve finally hit the point where devices feel like they win from every angle. The perfect example of this incredible progress is the Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro, a five-star platinum award winner here at T3 and a really gorgeous bit of technological design.

Whether you’re someone who likes to work flexibly or you have a more static home workstation, you’re probably on the lookout for a laptop that can power through demanding tasks with ease, as well as being able to last for hours while you work through emails, editing and other tasks. Well, if you’re wondering whether the Galaxy Book6 Pro could be the answer, we’re going to break down just how great it can be for productivity.

Built for how you work: a day running a London café with the Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro - YouTube

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Work on the go, all day

Before we get into the actual power under the hood of the Galaxy Book6 Pro, we think it’s well worth zooming in on the laptop’s battery life, since it’s one of those areas that has a simply massive effect on how you use your computer.

For ages, the most powerful productivity machines would only last a matter of hours before dying, but the Galaxy Book6 Pro is built differently. It can get through even a demanding work day without ever needing to be plugged in, and can even stretch to a staggering 30 hours of local video playback* without the battery dying.

Those are crazy numbers, and they help ensure that charging anxiety can basically be completely forgotten about.

Multitask to your heart’s content

Battery life is great, but anyone could tell you that it needs to be paired with power to make a machine really fit into any working situation, which is why the Galaxy Book6 Pro ships with the latest generation of Intel® chips, the Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3.

That gives it such a huge boost compared to the competition, since efficiency is the name of the game with this generation of silicon. The laptop’s able to multitask in ways that previous generations of computers could only dream of, too, as the processor intelligently allocates resources to the processes and apps that you’re actually using.

Forget about waiting ages for apps to open, too – the responsiveness of the Galaxy Book6 Pro is second to none.

Create content endlessly

Of course, when we talk about apps, there’s no point in being vague. So many creators now rely on laptops to be able to edit on the go, whether that means touching up photos to put out on Instagram or cutting together a video to upload to TikTok, and there’s nothing worse than a laptop that feels like it interrupts the creative process with loading times and long processing waits.

That’s why the Intel® chipset in the Galaxy Book6 Pro is such a leap forward – it’s brilliant at crunching through these sorts of complex tasks without breaking too much of a sweat, and you’ll be shocked by how quickly it can accomplish jobs that you might think would be the preserve of a desktop tower.

Collaboration is key

An under-appreciated aspect of the Galaxy Book6 Pro’s productivity arsenal is its touch screen. We’ve long found that being able to swipe back and forth between visualisations or drafts can be super helpful in meetings and during brainstorms, and the fact that the Galaxy Book6 Pro has a full touch screen is really massive on that front.

Trust us, once you start using a touch-screen laptop you won’t look back – pretty soon you’ll be left wondering how certain other massive brands haven’t embraced the feature.

AI lights the way

When you hear about how powerful a device can be when it comes to onboard AI processing, you might fall into two camps – either that’s a massive boost to your possible workflows, or it doesn’t really matter to you. If you’re in the former group, you’ll be glad to learn that the Galaxy Book6 Pro is an AI beast that excels at returning tickets and requests to you ASAP.

If you’re less fussed about it, though, the good news is that the laptop’s AI power translates pretty directly to more processing power for you to use on whatever tasks and processes you do use – so it’s pretty much the dictionary definition of a “win-win”.

* 1080p local video, 150 nits brightness, airplane mode turned on