Samsung Galaxy Book Go review

The Samsung Galaxy Book Go sounds good on paper, but lots of ports and 4G connectivity can't make up for a dim screen and dismal performance

The Galaxy Book Go is a lightweight, affordable laptop from Samsung that’s powered by a Qualcomm chip – instead of Intel – and offers the option of 4G connectivity.

On paper that sounds great, but in practice this laptop is abominably slow, with Windows still refusing to play nicely with Qualcomm’s Arm architecture. The result is a laptop that’s difficult to recommend, and undeniably outclassed by most Chromebooks at the same price.

Design and build

Slim and lightweight build

Made of plastic

Only available in silver

While I have my complaints about the Galaxy Book Go’s performance, I can’t really fault the way it looks.

Only available in silver, this is a pretty sleek and attractive laptop for the price. Samsung has kept it slim (just 14.9mm thick) and relatively light (only 1.38kg), which is impressive bearing in mind that it comes with a fairly expansive 14in display.

It’s partly that light because the body is plastic, which is pretty inevitable at this price. That does make the laptop feel a bit cheap – but hey, it is cheap. So you can’t really complain too much about that.

Display and audio

14in HD display

Quite dim

No touchscreen

The 14in display here is large for a laptop of this price, but it comes with drawbacks.

It’s Full HD, at 1920 x 1080, so at least Samsung hasn’t taken any shortcuts there as we’ve sometimes seen in other budget laptops.

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