Hands-on: Samsung’s Galaxy Book S debuts with the Snapdragon 8cx

Samsung’s Galaxy Book S debuted at the company’s Unpacked 2019 event in New York, a surprise addition to the widely expected announcement of the company’s Galaxy S10 and S10+ phablets. Starting at $1,000, the other surprise is the CPU inside: Qualcomm’s spanking-new, octo-core Snapdragon 8cx.

Update Jan. 2, 2020: Samsung has officially confirmed the Galaxy Book S will ship in the first quarter of 2020, and not in September 2019.

Qualcomm’s taken a few prior stabs at running a laptop on Snapdragon—no small feat given the need to emulate Windows 10. So far the results have been mixed at best, sacrificing perhaps a bit too much performance for battery life. However, when Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8cx late last year, the company claimed it was built from the ground up for laptops. The 8cx later posted promising benchmarks when we saw it on a reference laptop at Computex in Taipei. This is our first look at the new CPU in a shipping unit. 

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