Samsung has for
Samsung EPP/EDU: Galaxy Book 6 Laptop (NP760XJGF-EXP / NP760XJG-KG2US) on sale for
$537.49 when you follow the instructions below. Shipping is $6.99
or select free store pick up at Best Buy.
Thanks to community member
telugite for finding this deal.
Deal Instructions:- Visit the Samsung Discount Program page and select the program for which you qualify
- Go to Galaxy Book 6 Laptop item page
- Under Storage select "512GB"
- Under Screen Size select "16" Touch"
- Your price will be $537.49
- Click Continue to add to cart and complete your transaction
Specs:- Intel Core Ultra 7 355 Processor
- 16" 1920 x 1200 (WUXGA) IPS Touch Display
- 16GB LPDDR5X RAM
- 512GB NVMe Solid State Drive
- Intel Graphics
- WiFi 6E + Bluetooth 5.4
- Backlit Keyboard / Fingerprint Reader
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 1x HDMI
- 2x USB Type-C
- 2x USB3.2
- 1x RJ45 (LAN)
Top Comments
I think the display is fine enough that it wouldn't bother me. Is it perfect? Not even close but it's clear and smooth and brighter than my Asus G14. Exceeds my expectations.
Was worried about the trackpad and think it's workable, would still prefer it to be both fixed and bigger (plus matching the display aspect ration) but it seems to work well. Keyboard I'm not sure about still, very different than I'm used to with very little travel. My problem as much as anything is it's so low profile I'm struggling to locate keys when I'm not on the home row. Things like enter and the arrow keys especially but just landing on the home row is hit and miss. Multi key single folder shortcuts like shift-ctrl are also kind of hard with the extreme low profile. This hasn't been uncomfortable to write (though it hasn't been hours of work either) so I could probably get adjusted to it over time.
The speakers though... they must have tried really hard to make them this bad. I would personally consider them bordering on unusable, definitely not over 50% since even that's getting extremely tinny and blowing out. 40% on a hard surface is about as good as I can find and it's still really bad. Watch the video I linked above and it's every bit that bad. It might border on deal breaker for me since one of the benefits of this for me would be a bigger screen for watching shows and movies when we're traveling but these speakers are a disaster.
Update- I don't think Samsung applied any tuning to these at all and software EQ goes a long way to getting them serviceable. Still playing with it since I am not very practiced at it, and still get some hollow clipping occasionally, but mostly just brought all the channels down one at a time until it sounded right. Most were around -1 to -3 db but I believe it was the upper mids that I dropped to around -10 db. So the hardware is there to get an acceptable result and the terrible/lack of tuning is the real culprit combined with it still being less than optimal to use them on anything but a hard surface (but the tuning goes a long way in that regard too).
Also for anyone else curious, Linux seems to be running fine with all the hardware if anyone else was wanting it to get away from Microslop. Only thing so far that doesn't appear to just be working is the keyboard backlight so will have to see if that can be solved.
Update- It was just the first distro I tried, keyboard backlight works fine from the software (though not the hotkey and haven't gotten to seeing if I can bind it). The fingerprint reader on this does not have a Linux driver at all right now from what I can find. Otherwise Linux (settled on Fedora) has been a great experience on it so far. Only real quibble is battery life is good but not nearly as good as I was expecting from how efficient this line of chips is talked up.
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j/k solid deal, been waiting on a Dell refurb equivalent, but this is newer and ony these specific specifications are eligible for that $971 discount.
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