{"id":241172,"date":"2026-05-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/samsungs-flagship-laptop-is-a-macbook-pro-clone-gone-horribly-wrong\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:35:08","slug":"samsungs-flagship-laptop-is-a-macbook-pro-clone-gone-horribly-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/samsungs-flagship-laptop-is-a-macbook-pro-clone-gone-horribly-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s flagship laptop is a MacBook Pro clone gone horribly wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/925806\/samsung-galaxy-book6-ultra-nvidia-rtx-5070-laptop-review\">Samsung\u2019s flagship laptop is a MacBook Pro clone gone horribly wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/925806\/samsung-galaxy-book6-ultra-nvidia-rtx-5070-laptop-review\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/925806\/samsung-galaxy-book6-ultra-nvidia-rtx-5070-laptop-review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theverge.com\">www.theverge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy2 _17nnmdy0 _17nnmdy7 _17nnmdy5 _1xwtict1 _17nnmdyb\">II know I\u2019m 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\u2019s Galaxy Book6 Ultra certainly tries. It\u2019s got a beautiful screen and a nice design, and it\u2019s as solidly built as laptops come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">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\u2019s obvious what Samsung was going for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Imitating things people want is understandable. But Samsung also repeats some of Apple\u2019s previous failings, like including a terrible keyboard and a surprisingly bad webcam. And it\u2019s charging high-end MacBook Pro money for a device that doesn\u2019t perform like one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cGood artists copy, great artists steal.\u201d But what if they botch the robbery?<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"x271pn0\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' 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https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/268517_Samsung_Galaxy_Book6_Ultra_ADiBenedetto_0013.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&#038;w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/268517_Samsung_Galaxy_Book6_Ultra_ADiBenedetto_0013.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/268517_Samsung_Galaxy_Book6_Ultra_ADiBenedetto_0013.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&#038;w=2400 2400w\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/268517_Samsung_Galaxy_Book6_Ultra_ADiBenedetto_0013.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&#038;w=2400\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_18t3ez0s\">$3800<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"_16zyrvq8\">The Good<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Very nice (and very familiar) build and design<\/li>\n<li>Bright and contrast-y OLED display<\/li>\n<li>Good Intel Panther Lake \/ Nvidia RTX performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"_16zyrvq8\">The Bad<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Bad keyboard with short key travel<\/li>\n<li>Poor webcam quality<\/li>\n<li>So pricey for such glaring faults<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Galaxy Book6 Ultra starts at $2,900 with a 16-core Core Ultra X7 358H chip and integrated Intel Arc B390 graphics. Our review configuration has a similar Intel Core Ultra 7 356H chip paired with an Nvidia RTX 5070 Laptop GPU. It also has 32GB of soldered RAM and a 2TB SSD. It cost $3,200 before RAMageddon drove prices up. Now, it\u2019s a whopping $3,800 with a 1TB SSD. At that price, it\u2019s just $100 shy of a 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Max with 36GB of memory and a 2TB SSD. (Let\u2019s keep that figure in the back of our minds.)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"duet--article--unordered-list _1ymtmqpi _11h7yix0 _1xwtict1 kuxlcj7\">\n<li class=\"_11h7yix1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>Screen:<\/strong> A<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_11h7yix1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>Webcam:<\/strong> D<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_11h7yix1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>Keyboard: <\/strong>D<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_11h7yix1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>Trackpad:<\/strong> C<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_11h7yix1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>Port selection:<\/strong> B<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_11h7yix1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>Speakers:<\/strong> B<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_11h7yix1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>Number of ugly stickers to remove:<\/strong> 4 (one underneath)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">As expected from a high-end Samsung device, the display is gorgeous. The 16-inch, 2880 x 1800 OLED touchscreen is bright and sharp, rendering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/925806\/samsung-galaxy-book6-ultra-nvidia-rtx-5070-laptop-review\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung\u2019s flagship laptop is a MacBook Pro clone gone horribly wrong https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/925806\/samsung-galaxy-book6-ultra-nvidia-rtx-5070-laptop-review Publish Date: 2026-05-07&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/268517_Samsung_Galaxy_Book6_Ultra_ADiBenedetto_0001.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C10.732984293194%2C100%2C78.534031413613&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-241172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-macbook-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241174,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241172\/revisions\/241174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}