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The Lost Notebook

Louise douglas.

353 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 5, 2022

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Book Review: The Lost Notebook by Louise Douglas

A notebook full of secrets, two untimely deaths – something sinister is stirring in the perfect seaside town of Morranez…

It’s summer and holidaymakers are flocking to the idyllic Brittany coast. But when first an old traveller woman dies in suspicious circumstances, and then a campaign of hate seemingly drives another victim to take his own life, events take a very dark turn.

Mila Shepherd has come to France to look after her niece, Ani, following the accident in which both Ani’s parents were lost at sea. Mila has moved into their family holiday home, as well as taken her sister Sophie’s place in an agency which specialises in tracking down missing people, until new recruit Carter Jackson starts.

It’s clear that malevolent forces are at work in Morranez, but the local police are choosing to look the other way. Only Mila and Carter can uncover the truth about what’s really going on in this beautiful, but mysterious place before anyone else suffers. But someone is desperate to protect a terrible truth, at any cost…

It’s summer in Morranez on the Brittany coast but for Mila, the anniversary of her sisters death casts a deep shadow.

There to look after her orphaned niece, Mila is counting the days until she can be back in England. However, when there are two mysterious deaths, Mila is desperate to reveal the truth… but at what cost?

I loved Louise’s previous novel, The Room in the Attic so I was very eager to read the The Lost Notebook.

The cover is beautiful.

Mila is an interesting character. She’s guarded and a little broken due to her sister’s death. Saying that, she comes through for the people she loves when it counts.

Carter adds to the mystery and he doesn’t give too much of himself away. I felt there was certainly more to him than meets the eye. Could I trust him?

The setting and atmosphere is such a contrast to the sinister nature of the plot. Whilst the tension and suspense builds, it’s in this beautiful seaside town, in the height of summer.

OK, no more spoilers.

The Lost Notebook is a compelling thriller that had me guessing from the first to the last page. It delves into themes such as revenge, family and justice.

I feel there is more to Mila’s story. Here is hoping it’s not the last we see of her and her family.

If you’re looking for mystery in a seaside town, this book is perfect.

About Louise Douglas:

She lives in the West Country.

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The Lost Notebook was released by Boldwood Books on 5th September 2022. Click to buy on Amazon UK and Waterstones .

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A notebook full of secrets, two untimely deaths – something sinister is stirring in the perfect seaside town of Morranez…

It’s summer and holidaymakers are flocking to the idyllic Brittany coast. But when first an old traveller woman dies in suspicious circumstances, and then a campaign of hate seemingly drives another victim to take his own life, events take a very dark turn.

Mila Shepherd has come to France to look after her niece, Ani, following the accident in which both Ani’s parents were lost at sea. Mila has moved into their family holiday home, as well as taken her sister Sophie’s place in an agency which specialises in tracking down missing people, until new recruit Carter Jackson starts.

It’s clear that malevolent forces are at work in Morranez, but the local police are choosing to look the other way. Only Mila and Carter can uncover the truth about what’s really going on in this beautiful, but mysterious place before anyone else suffers. But someone is desperate to protect a terrible truth, at any cost…

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The Lost Notebook is brilliant. 

I usually try to guess a resolution but even though the mystery is the reason for the story, I enjoyed it so much it just evolved naturally (if that makes sense!)

Mila is a complex character.  She’s independent and not afraid to tackle things head on when she needs to.  She doesn’t need a man to feel complete.  And yet, she’s always thinking ahead to problems that might happen, controlling every single thing.  It has to be said, her fears stifle spontaneity and joy.   

I wasn’t sure whether this was as a result of her sister Sophie’s death or because she’d always been in Sophie’s shadow and had to be the responsible one.

She’s in limbo having left her life behind in Bristol (almost a year ago) to step into looking after Ani.  As it’s only temporary, she tries to hold back her emotions and not get involved with the people or the life in Morannez.  I loved seeing the changes in her and Ani.

Loved the setting too.  Louise Douglas’ descriptive writing makes these scenes come alive.  So easy to feel as if you’re there with Mila.

The mystery draws you in with suggestions which are shadowy and nebulous.  Did that happen?  Is Mila’s mind playing tricks?  Love how unreliable this is 🙂  I was so intrigued by Gozia and Carter.

The Lost Notebook is more than the mystery.  It’s realistic in portraying how a family adjusts, adapts and copes after the loss of a close family member.   

The story ended just how I was hoping, although not everything is tied up nicely.  There are still a couple of things to ponder on …

Highly recommended.

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It's summer and holidaymakers are flocking to the idyllic Brittany coast. But when first an old traveller woman dies in suspicious circumstances, and then a campaign of hate seemingly drives another victim to take his own life, events take a very dark turn.

Mila Shepherd has come to France to look after her niece, Ani, following the accident in which both Ani's parents were lost at sea. Mila has moved into their family holiday home, as well as taken her sister Sophie's place in an agency which specialises in tracking down missing people, until new recruit Carter Jackson starts.

It's clear that malevolent forces are at work in Morannez, but the local police are choosing to look the other way. Only Mila and Carter can uncover the truth about what's really going on in this beautiful, but mysterious place before anyone else suffers. But someone is desperate to protect a terrible truth, at any cost...

Praise for Louise Douglas: ** **'I loved The Lost Notebook so much! From the opening lines, I was drawn in to a gripping story, beautifully written and so cleverly orchestrated. I rooted for the main character, I held my breath at the denouement and as for the climax of the book - just wow. Highly recommended.' Judy Leigh **

'Louise Douglas achieves the impossible and gets better with every book.' Milly Johnson

'A brilliantly written, gripping, clever, compelling story, that I struggled to put down. The vivid descriptions, the evocative plot and the intrigue that Louise created, which had me constantly asking questions, made it a highly enjoyable, absolute treasure of a read.' Kim Nash on The Scarlet Dress

'Another stunning read from the exceptionally talented Louise Douglas! I love the way in which Louise creates such an atmospheric mystery, building the intrigue and suspense brick by brick. Her writing is always beautiful and multi-layered, her characters warm and relatable and the intriguing nature of the mystery makes this unputdownable.' Nicola Cornick on The Scarlet Dress

'A tender, heart-breaking, page-turning read' Rachel Hore on The House by the Sea

'The perfect combination of page-turning thriller and deeply emotional family story. Superb' Nicola Cornick on The House by the Sea

'Kept me guessing until the last few pages and the explosive ending took my breath away.' C.L. Taylor, author of The Accident on Your Beautiful Lies

'Beautifully written, chillingly atmospheric and utterly compelling, The Secret by the Lake is Louise Douglas at her brilliant best' Tammy Cohen, author of The Broken

'A master of her craft, Louise Douglas ratchets up the tension in this haunting and exquisitely written tale of buried secrets and past tragedy.' Amanda Jennings, author of Sworn Secret

'A clammy, atmospheric and suspenseful novel, it builds in tension all the way through to the startling final pages.' Sunday Express, S Magazine

'A chilling, unputdownable new novel from the bestselling author of The House By The Sea.

'A brilliantly written, gripping, clever, compelling story, that I struggled to put down.'

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Blog Tour: The Lost Notebook by Louise Douglas

Today, I am delighted to be taking part in the blog tour for  The Lost Notebook  by Louise Douglas. My thanks to Rachel Gilbey of Rachel’s Random Resources for offering me a place on the tour and to the publisher, Boldwood Books, for providing me with a digital copy of the book via NetGalley for the purposes of review. I have reviewed the book honestly and impartially.

A notebook full of secrets, two untimely deaths – something sinister is stirring in the perfect seaside town of Morranez… It’s summer and holidaymakers are flocking to the idyllic Brittany coast. But when first an old traveller woman dies in suspicious circumstances, and then a campaign of hate seemingly drives another victim to take his own life, events take a very dark turn. Mila Shepherd has come to France to look after her niece, Ani, following the accident in which both Ani’s parents were lost at sea. Mila has moved into their family holiday home, as well as taken her sister Sophie’s place in an agency which specialises in tracking down missing people, until new recruit Carter Jackson starts. It’s clear that malevolent forces are at work in Morranez, but the local police are choosing to look the other way. Only Mila and Carter can uncover the truth about what’s really going on in this beautiful, but mysterious place before anyone else suffers. But someone is desperate to protect a terrible truth, at any cost…

You never quite know what to expect from a Louise Douglas book, except for a cracking story, as they are all quite different so I always approach one with curiosity and excitement.  The Lost Notebook  was another story that had a unique feel to me, and an original and interesting story, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The central character of Mila was fascinating. She is a woman who is conflicted in so many areas of her life, torn between what she believes she wants to do and doing her duty as she sees it. However, as in all our lives, we aren’t even sure of our own minds half the time and Mila spends the arc of the book working out how she really feels about the different aspects of her life, which is a fascinating journey to follow. At the same time, there is a mystery in the town which she feels compelled to solve, despite the peril it may put her in – one which has its roots in very emotive events from the past. The book deals with a particular period of time that I always find difficult to read about in fiction, but I think the discomfort is necessary to make us face the horrors of what has happened in the past so we don’t repeat those mistakes in the present. It is very poignant in current times and I think the author handled it sensitively.

The setting of the book is always a strength in Louise’s writing and this book is no different. She brings this corner of Brittany vividly to life, using every sense available, and I had a clear picture of where the action was happening in my mind. She is also excellent at using the setting to evoke mood, it always works to brilliant effect and I found this to be the perfect book to read at this time of year, just as the seasons are changing. There is hope but also melancholy as we move from summer to autumn and this book plays into that mood exactly.

One other thing that I loved about this book was that it didn’t go quite where the reader might anticipate it would in a couple of areas. I don’t want to include any spoilers in my review, so I won’t say much more than that, and that the ending left me… hmmmmm!

I read this book quite quickly, as it was engrossing and compelling and was very satisfied with the experience. An excellent book for these cooling, darkening evenings, I heartily recommend it.

The Lost Notebook  is out now in all formats and you can buy a copy here.

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Louise Douglas is the bestselling and brilliantly reviewed author and an RNA award winner. The Secrets Between Us was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. She lives in the West Country.

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#Review: The Lost Notebook by Louise Douglas @LouiseDouglas3 @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources #blogtour #publicationday #BoldwoodBloggers #TheLostNotebook

It’s such a pleasure today to be helping launch the blog tour for the latest book from the wonderful Louise Douglas,  The Lost Notebook , and to share my publication day review: published by Boldwood Books, it’s now available as an e-book (free via Kindle Unlimited), in paperback and as an audiobook. My thanks to Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for the invitation and support, and to publishers Boldwood for my advance reading e-copy (provided via netgalley).

Over the last couple of weeks, it’s been a joy to feature some of the new-to-me authors I’ve discovered while reading Boldwood’s books – but it’s even more lovely to feature an author whose books have been delighting me for rather a long time. I’ve loved Louise’s books since her very first,  The Love of my Life , way back in 2009 – and it entirely deserved its nomination for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Her second, the heart-breaking Missing You , won the RNA Readers’ Choice Award: her third, The Secrets Between Us , a highly accomplished thriller and love story strongly reminiscent of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca , was a 2012 Richard and Judy Summer Read.  Then came In Her Shadow , followed by  Your Beautiful Lies  (you’ll find my review  here ): and next was  The Secret By The Lake , at the time my favourite of them all (you can read my review again here ).

A bit of a hiatus then, but I was overjoyed when she reappeared as a Boldwood author. The House by the Sea was published in February 2020 – winner of the RNA Jackie Collins Romantic Thriller award in 2021  (and one of my books of the year  too – you’ll find my review here ), beautifully written, an enthralling story, haunting in its every detail. And then came The Scarlet Dress , in February 2021 – a dual timeline story both stunning and compelling (review here ) – followed in October 2021 by The Room in the Attic , a quite wonderful story with a strong gothic feel that immediately became my new favourite (and another review – you’ll find it here ). So, another new book… eagerly anticipated, and I couldn’t wait to dive in…

A notebook full of secrets, two untimely deaths – something sinister is stirring in the perfect seaside town of Morranez…   It’s summer and holidaymakers are flocking to the idyllic Brittany coast. But when first an old traveller woman dies in suspicious circumstances, and then a campaign of hate seemingly drives another victim to take his own life, events take a very dark turn.   Mila Shepherd has come to France to look after her niece, Ani, following the accident in which both Ani’s parents were lost at sea. Mila has moved into their family holiday home, as well as taken her sister Sophie’s place in an agency which specialises in tracking down missing people, until new recruit Carter Jackson starts.   It’s clear that malevolent forces are at work in Morranez, but the local police are choosing to look the other way. Only Mila and Carter can uncover the truth about what’s really going on in this beautiful, but mysterious place before anyone else suffers. But someone is desperate to protect a terrible truth, at any cost…

Mila is ready to return home – to finish her novel, to pick up the relationship that’s proved difficult to sustain at long distance. She’s spent a year at the former family holiday home at Morranez in Brittany, having stepped in to care for her niece Ani after the death of her parents, Mila’s sister Sophie and husband Charlie, in a boating accident – and taken Sophie’s place as an investigator at their aunt’s missing persons agency.

But there are now plans for Ani, sometimes a difficult though very typical young teen, to go to boarding school in Switzerland – and a replacement (Carter – who turns out to be a former member of the “band sauvage” of their childhood) ready to take her place at the agency. But when an elderly traveller is found dead in her caravan, Mila is frustrated by the police’s absence of interest or concern, even when it becomes obvious that some of her treasured possessions are missing – and when a second body is found, at the nearby archaeological dig after a rather vicious hate campaign, she becomes convinced that the deaths are linked, and that there are more secrets to uncover and a far bigger mystery to solve.

That’s the simplified version – but this book really is so much more than that. Firstly, there’s the vividly drawn setting – the isolated beach house where they live, the coastline with its childhood memories and constant reminders of the discovery of her sister’s body, the dolmen among the cornfields and the nearby archaeological dig, the vibrant town with its mix of holiday visitors and tight-knit local community. And as the focus of Mila and Carter’s investigation widens, the story becomes increasingly layered and complex – quite fascinating, perfectly paced, and entirely gripping – with unexpected links to Eastern Europe and the atrocities of the past, and with a distinct edge of danger.

But it also succeeds in being a particularly engaging smaller scale story – the uneasy and difficult relationship between Mila and a grieving Ani, the echoes of her often complicated relationship with her sister Sophie and all the unresolved issues of their younger years, the appearance of Carter and the associated past memories. I very much liked the unusual inclusion of Sophie’s voice, clear and distinctive, offering her thoughts and often unwelcome advice – it works particularly well. And while Mila herself always draws the eye, the wider cast is also exceptionally well drawn – and the book’s ending was, I thought, particularly perfect.

The writing, as always, is quite wonderful – the pace and mounting tension of the murder mystery is beautifully balanced by the author’s particularly deft touch with the emotional content, making it a book you feel rather than simply read. Very highly recommended – I loved it.

About the author

Louise Douglas is the bestselling and brilliantly reviewed author of novels including  The Love of my Life and  Missing You  – a RNA award winner.  The Secrets Between Us  was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. She lives in the West Country. Louise’s first book for Boldwood, The House by the Sea was published in March 2020, and was the winner of the RNA Jackie Collins Romantic Thriller award.

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BOOK REVIEW: John Canemaker’s “The Lost Notebook”

I don’t know about you, but I just spent my Memorial Day weekend reading (and drooling over) the latest book by animation historian extraordinaire John Canemaker, The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis and The Secrets of Walt Disney’s Movie Magic .

With apologies to my dear friends Didier Ghez and David Gerstein (who also have great books regarding Disney coming out in 2014), there can be no more important book about Disney history published this year. Just when you think there is nothing else to know, nothing left to uncover, Canemaker and the Disney Family Museum put this major piece of animation/Disney/special effects research and Hollywood history on the table – a coffee table in this case.

The Lost Notebook is a large, $75.00 behemoth of an oversized book ($51.07 on Amazon) which contains a complete facsimile of a previously unpublished, previously unknown and lost journal of photographer and Disney effects technician Herman Schultheis. Schultheis worked for Disney for a few years, essentially between 1938 and 1941 – the height of the Disney golden age – part of the team in getting Pinnocchio, Fantasia, The Reluctant Dragon, Bambi and Dumbo to the screen.

Not only did Schultheis work in effects photography – think the snow flakes in Fantasia , the elaborate opening shot in Pinnochio – but he documented how these “tricks” were achieved, with notes, charts, rare photographs and art. Schultheis was also a publicity photographer for the studio – as well as a cameraman behind many of the reference photos the animators used.

Canemaker deftly annotates the entire 160 page ‘lost notebook’, filling in the gaps by identifying artists and technicians and explaining the context of each photograph, film or technical process involved. The other 132 pages surrounding the notebook here are even more fascinating. Canemaker relates the entire tale of Mr. Schultheis – a part-time nudist and a suspected Nazi sympathizer – who ultimately disappeared forever in a Guatemalan jungle in 1955. You can’t make stuff like this up – it’s an incredible life story.

Schultheis was an industry jack-of-all-trades and perhaps master-of-none, but he had a healthy ego and several good ideas (3-D Disney illustrated books using studio maquettes; a plan to build a “how-we-make-cartoons” movie museum in Hollywood that would also sell Disney “by-products”, et al). His German accent didn’t help his fortunes during wartime – but merchandiser Kay Kamen befriended him, and he later found work at 20th Century Fox and the small-time Telefilm productions after the war. Canemaker’s telling of his life story is an equally compelling companion to the “lost notebook” itself.

Schultheis’ Disney notebooks were found in 1990 by Howard Lowery, in his estate – after his widow’s passing – untouched for 35 years, in a cabinet drawer. The original notebook is now on display at the Disney Family Museum in San Francisco.

Pixar’s Pete Docter contributes an enthusiastic and heartfelt Foreword explaining the importance of these lost notes. He’s right – they are important, both Disney and Special Effects historians will have a field day here – and the “lost notebook” will indeed be analyzed and referred to for decades to come.

Beautiful to behold, a rare artifact and important reference material – what more can I say? The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis and The Secrets of Walt Disney’s Movie Magic is highly recommended.

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I read about this album in 'The Illusion of Life', I believe. Glad to see it has finally been published.

Apparently there was quite a bit of "stop motion" in their cel animation process, in that they didn't just photograph flat cels. It seems to me that for years Disney was on the absolute cutting edge of entertainment technology. The level of creativity that went into these processes before everything went digital is inspiring. It was the same in audio, which is the industry I work in. Sometimes I wonder whether we didn't get more interesting results in general when we had to tinker with physical things. Compare the first three "Star Wars" films to the "prequels," for example. Besides, tinkering is fun.

I look forward to having a look at it.

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Asus Zenbook Duo (2024) review: A great dual-screen laptop

T he Asus Zenbook Duo gets its name from one key feature: Nestled beneath its gray aluminum deck yields a display identical to its primary, resulting in two 1920 x 1200-pixel touchscreen OLED panels side-by-side. And as soon as you decide you no longer need both, you can magnetically attach its included keyboard to the deck. 

But beyond its dual screen functionality, does the Zenbook Duo find its own ground? The short answer is yes, offering phenomenal processing speeds, a surprisingly clicky keyboard, and solid battery life in a decently affordable package. It will definitely make our best Asus laptops list. If you want the longer answer, let's jump right into whether or not the Zenbook Duo is right for you.

Asus Zenbook Duo price and configuration 

Our review unit of the Asus Zenbook Duo is built with an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor, integrated Intel Arc graphics, 16GB of RAM, 1TB of SSD storage, and two 1920 x 1200-pixel resolution OLED touchscreens. It’s available at XOTIC PC for $1,499 .

The most expensive model boosts the processor to an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H, increases RAM to 32GB, and pushes the screen resolution to 2880 x 1800. It’s available on XOTIC PC for $1,749 .

Asus Zenbook Duo design 

On the surface, the Zenbook Duo appears like any other mainstream laptop you could find on the market, perhaps with just a slightly bulkier deck. You might think nothing of the device when lifting its Inkwell Gray lid, but if you place your fingers at its sides, you’ll notice an indent halfway down. Lift that up and viola, a second 16:10 screen with the same OLED panel and 1920 x 1200-pixel resolution appears.

While the design is fantastic on paper and works surprisingly well, you should expect a small delay between taking the keyboard off and placing it back on. It’ll always need a moment to register its new mode, but beyond that, I wish removing the deck was easier. It’s a bit of a struggle every time I do so, without a convenient place to latch onto, forcing me to slightly jimmy the thing to get it off. Outside of its “Duo” namesake, the design is minimalist with a few diagonal lines traveling across the lid and a Asus Zenbook logo in the top left.

The Asus Zenbook Duo also comes with Asus Pen 2.0, a pressure sensitive pen that works with both of the laptop's touchscreens. It's sold for $99 on its own and comes with a USB-C charging port, four pen tips, and a Bluetooth pair button. It also has three shortcut buttons, one on top for customized shortcuts, while the other two can mouse click and erase.

It’s probably no surprise that the Zenbook Duo is a bit heavier than larger laptops thanks to its unique functionality, coming in at 3.6 pounds and measuring 12.3 x 8.6 x 0.6~0.8 inches. Even then, competitors like the MacBook Pro 14 M3 (3.4 pounds, 12.3 x 8.7 x 0.6-inches), HP Spectre x360 14 (3.2 pounds, 12.4 x 8.7 x 0.7 inches), and MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo (3.3 pounds, 14.1 x 10 x 0.7 inches) are all in a similar ballpark in weight and size. 

Asus Zenbook Duo security and durability 

The Zenbook Duo is surprisingly sturdy, featuring military grade certification through the US MIL-STD 810H standard. This means that it has been put through rough conditions and still remained intact, potentially including high or low temperatures, moisture, shock and more. While the hinge itself can be a bit wobbly, the aluminum deck and chassis are nice and firm. It also comes with an IR camera compatible with Windows Hello and TPM 2.0.

Asus Zenbook Duo ports 

Built with a decent selection of ports , the Zenbook Duo should be more than capable of handling your needs, especially if you’re a big fan of Thunderbolt 4. On its left side, it has two Thunderbolt 4 ports and a USB 3.2 Type-A. On its right there’s an HDMI 2.1 and a 3.5mm audio jack. 

Asus Zenbook Duo display 

Not only does the Zenbook Duo have a 14-inch, 1920 x 1200-pixel resolution glossy touch screen at a 60Hz refresh rate, but a duplicate is nestled beneath its keyboard. The first screen is always on when the magnetic keyboard is attached, but once removed, the other comes to life after a few seconds.

I watched the trailer for The Fall Guy and as it cut to slow-motion shots on a set of an alien planet, the intense orange and yellow smoke of explosions against a faded open sky overwhelmed with spaceships looked both colorful and bright. With the harsh white lights of my office put to its maximum brightness, I could still see the screen perfectly clear. I noticed a subtle reflection, but I had to focus on it to become visible.

However, I had seen this trailer on my Alienware AW2725DF OLED monitor and quickly noticed that everything on the Duo looked too orange. Other OLED laptops often have an issue highlighting intense vivid colors over accuracy, but the Duo took things to a whole other level. I went into the MyAsus settings and was able to change the Color Gamut from Native to either sRGB (for web content), DCI-P3 (for cinema) and a custom Display P3, which is designed to provide “wider true-to-life colors.” Each looked a little too intense, but my favorites were the DCI-P3 setting for film and sRGB for everything else.

But the key feature of the Duo is its second display. Lifting the magnetically attached keyboard will automatically duplicate any contents of one screen onto the other. It works flawlessly, with everything on one happening on the other, making it perfect for larger groups of people who need to huddle over one project and work together on it.

It’s also perfect if you’re an artist seeking to emulate using a drawing tablet without having to look down at the lower screen, as everything is instantly duplicated on the upper screen, allowing you to illustrate with eyes upwards. And since both displays are the same specifications in every way, there are no discrepancies.

Alternatively, you can press F7 if the keyboard is still attached and swap to Extend. If you don’t have the keyboard attached anymore, go to System > Display > and then swap Duplicate these displays to Extend these displays to have two separate screens operating at once. Having a second screen available is great for productivity, but it’s especially good for artists who need visible references while working on the second screen.

The Zenbook Duo did decently on our color tests, reproducing 80.5% of the DCI-P3 color gamut . While this is an okay score in general, it’s surprisingly average for an OLED display. This is way below the 98.5% premium laptop average, which also includes non-OLED devices. It’s also worse than what’s seen on the MacBook Pro (81.3%), Prestige 16 (137.9%), and Spectre x360 14 (85.8%).

It did a little better on our brightness tests, hitting a peak of 351 nits on average, which is also lower than the 436 nits mainstream laptop average. Again, this puts it behind the MacBook Pro (558 nits), Prestige 16 (368 nits) and Spectre x360 14 (366 nits), but it is pretty close to the last two competitors.

Asus Zenbook Duo keyboard and trackpad

Considering the Duo is a laptop with a detachable keyboard, I’m impressed by how clicky and satisfying it is to use with its 1.4mm travel. I typically expect companies to cheap out when it comes to this, but if you were to give this to the average consumer, they probably wouldn’t even be able to tell there’s a second screen underneath the keyboard just because of how good it feels to use.

I took the 10fastfingers typing test and managed 111 words per minute with a 98.5% accuracy. I can normally score anywhere from 110 to 120 words per minute with a 95 to 99% accuracy on my mechanical keyboard, so this is pretty much indistinguishable from my normal performance, which once again goes to show how good the keyboard feels.

Beyond type feel, the FN keys can project the display, mute the microphone, connect the keyboard via Bluetooth, bring up a list of emojis, quickly go to MyAsus, and turn off the second screen. Since the keyboard itself is detachable, it features a little switch on its side to turn the Bluetooth setting on. It can be used wirelessly and then recharged using a USB-C port on the side.

The 3 by 5.3-inch trackpad is equally satisfying, allowing me to browse the internet and move files from folder to folder without feeling too sluggish. Multi-gesture actions were also no issue, I used three fingers to reveal and hide everything with ease, alongside swapping tabs with no issue.

Asus Zenbook Duo audio

The Zenbook Duo’s speaker system is far from great, but it’ll get the job done for the less picky listeners. It’s loud, offers clear vocals, and can be sufficiently punchy, but the balance is all off. Certain sounds will drown others out, and some will feature a bass that seems to wildly overcompensate for what the speaker can handle.

I began listening to Blood Mary by Lady Gaga at maximum volume and was  blown away by how loud this thing could get, and while it was clearly prioritizing Gaga’s voice over certain elements like the bass and the background vocals, it still sounded pretty good. The explosive chorus’ punchy sound had me uncontrollably bang my head, but I do wish the system provided a greater balance to some of the electronic instruments lost in the noise.

I then moved onto my latest obsession, O Children by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, which I’ve been listening to non-stop for the last month. It’s a complex song with lots of instruments that can easily be lost beneath one another, and this is where I got less impressed by the quality of the speakers.

While the opening droning noise sounded great, the acoustic guitar that followed shortly after was hollow and flat. And then when the vocals and percussion jumped in, they were accompanied by an overwhelming amount of bass, and it felt as if the speaker system was pushing itself to its limits. Even then, by the time the final stretch came through, the high volume and clear vocals were enough to carry it to a decent auditory experience.

Asus Zenbook Duo performance 

The Zenbook Duo is built with a Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor, 16GB of RAM, 1TB of SSD storage. Considering it’s utilizing the latest Intel Ultra processors, it’s safe to say you shouldn’t expect any less than the best from this laptop in terms of performance. You can have dozens of YouTube videos on at once, with Twitch streams and Spotify running in the background with little to no issue.

On the Geekbench 6.2 overall performance test, the Zenbook Duo’s multi-core score of 12,873 is fantastic. This puts it far above the category average of 8,423. The MacBook Pro (M3, 11,870)  and Spectre x360 14 (Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, 12,358) stood no chance, but it was defeated by the Prestige 16 (Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, 13,310).

While converting a 4K video into 1080p using the HandBrake app, the Zenbook Duo managed to accomplish the task in 8 minutes and 56 seconds. Unfortunately, this is slower than the 8 minute and 13 second category average. The MacBook Pro (5:38), Prestige 16 (5:17), and Spectre x360 14 (7:30) all performed the task quicker.

The Zenbook Duo duplicated 25GB of multimedia files in 20 seconds at a transfer rate of 1,349 megabytes per second, which is slower than the 1,410MBps category average. The MacBook Pro (512GB SSD, 4,752MBps) was miles ahead, but the Prestige 16 (1TB SSD, 1,400MBps) and Spectre x360 14 (1TB SSD, 1,362MBps) were just barely better.

Asus Zenbook Duo gaming and graphics 

The Zenbook Duo is not built for gaming by any means, including nothing but its integrated Intel Arc graphics. And even if you’re looking for a laptop to fire up some casual gaming, you might want to look elsewhere.

During the Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Gathering Storm test at 1080p, the Duo achieved a pretty underwhelming 34 frames per second (which is technically playable). Its competition mostly blew it out of the water, with the MacBook Pro (51 fps) and Prestige 16 (66 fps) doing pretty well, while the Spectre x360 14 (36 fps) was in the same lane.

Asus Zenbook Duo battery life 

During Laptop Mag battery life test, which involves continuous web browsing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits, the Zenbook Duo lasted 10 hours and 34 minutes in laptop mode, which is pretty solid and pushes a bit above the 10 hour and 30 minute average. And even when having both screens on simultaneously, the laptop still hit 8 hours and 22 minutes, surpassing our 8-hour minimum threshold. While this is pretty good, it couldn’t quite compete with the MacBook Pro (17:16), Prestige 16 (13:22), and Spectre x360 14 (11:01).  

Asus Zenbook Duo webcam 

The Zenbook Duo won’t make it to the top of any best laptop webcams lists, but it does a good enough job with its 1920 x 1080-pixel resolution. I was pretty impressed with how it accurately portrayed the vibrancy of my pink walls and white ceiling, with the harsh white lights in my room not turning into an overexposed mess. But it did turn my lamp’s light blinding. You probably won’t need to purchase an external webcam, but if you need one, check out our best webcams . 

Asus Zenbook Duo heat 

The Zenbook Duo exceeded our 95-degree comfort threshold, with it reaching 113 degrees at its hottest point both in laptop mode and with dual screens on. We normally perform heat tests on the keyboard and touchpad, but neither of them are actually part of the machine, so there’s not much getting hot except the back of the machine itself.  

Asus Zenbook Duo software and warranty 

While installed with Windows 11 , the Zenbook Duo also features MyAsus, which provides a bunch of useful software and settings. You can view metrics for battery, CPU load, memory, hard disk space, warranty information, run system diagnostics, and update software. Further settings to modify audio and visuals are also available, like increasing the warmth of the screen or changing the color profile.

The Zenbook Duo comes with a one-year limited warranty. You can see how X did in our Tech Support Showdown special report.  

Bottom line 

The Asus Zenbook Duo strives to fulfill a specific purpose and does that exceptionally well. Anyone who needs a new machine with a satisfying keyboard that can seamlessly be swapped into a dual-screen setup for artistic projects will not be disappointed. Alongside exceptionally high performance metrics and solid battery life within a surprisingly affordable package, it is a great pick for artists and creators.

But it’s far from perfect, with its least offensive aspects being its underwhelming audio and difficult-to-remove magnetic keyboard. What really sets this laptop back is an OLED display that doesn’t meet our expectations in color, even when compared to non-OLED displays. If you’re on the lookout for a great laptop and can do without the dual-displays, the MSI Prestige AI Evo 16 provides phenomenal performance at a slightly lower cost. Otherwise, we recommend the Zenbook Duo for anyone who loves the appeal of its dual-screen configuration. 

Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra review: A workstation in a thin-and-light chassis

The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra is a premium system that can do it all, even light gaming.

Back when I was a dewy-eyed, young reviewer, Samsung used to make an impressive premium laptop. Combining glass and aluminum, they were a sight to behold and boasted some of the most powerful specs available at the time. And then, the company’s smartphone, TV and appliance markets started taking off and the laptop line started to decline. It was a sad time for us reviewers.

But I’m happy to say that it seems Samsung is back to form with the latest generation of laptops. The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra is a premium laptop made to accommodate just about everyone –– from the mobile professionals and creative professionals to the coders and gamers, and yes, even the content creators. Hidden beneath its stately aluminum chassis lurks a brolic Intel Core Ultra 9 processor with an Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics card. It’s a combination that puts competitors on notice and makes it one of the best laptops I’ve reviewed this year.

About this review: Samsung sent us a review unit of its Ultra Book 4 Ultra. It had no input on the content of this article.

Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra

The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra is the most powerful laptop in Samsung's premium lineup, featuring Intel Core Ultra processors and up to Nvidia GeForce RT 4070 graphics. It has the same 2.8K OLED display as its smaller siblings, and it's slightly thicker, but it's every bit as good, if not better.

• Superb overall and gaming performance
• Bright, vivid AMOLED touch display
• Excellent audio quality
• Great battery life
• Elegant, lightweight chassis
• Sticky touchpad
• Too many Samsung-branded apps

Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra price, availability, and specs

The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra is currently available at Samsung and Best Buy starting at $2,400. It’s a bit pricey, but you’re getting a 3.8-GHz Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor with 16GB of RAM with a 1TB SSD, Intel Arc Graphics, a Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU with 6GB of VRAM, and a 16-inch, 2880 x 1800 (3K) Dynamic AMOLED touch display.

If that’s not enough oomph for your buck, consider my $2,999 review model which bumps you up to a 2.5-GHz Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU, 32GB of RAM, and a Nvidia RTX 4070 with 8GB of video memory. Both systems have Windows 11 Home preinstalled.

For this review, we compared the Galaxy Book 4 against the Dell XPS 16 ($1,699 to start, Dell.com) and the HP Spectre x360 16 ($1,599 on HP.com, $1,799 at Best Buy).

Design and features

Thin, light and elegant.

While I miss the days when laptops rocked glass lids, the Galaxy Book 4 is just as handsome in its all-aluminum chassis. Colored in what Samsung calls Moonstone Gray, the 16-inch stunner would look right at home in your office, in a coffee shop, and of course, your lap. It’s all rounded edges with some subtle chamfering along the undercarriage. Outside of the glossy embedded Samsung logo stamped into the middle left of the lid, there are no other embellishments. You’ll definitely want to keep a microfiber cloth handy as the laptop quickly bore witness to my interactions via a slew of fingerprints.

When you open the notebook, you see that the majority of the gray keyboard deck is occupied by an absolute unit of a touchpad. Directly above is the keyboard, complete with num pad, resting in a slight recess. A long cylindrical hinge connects the deck to the 16-inch display ensconced in a set of relatively slim bezels. A quick tour of the notebook's bottom reveals a quad of black rubber feet, a large vent running the width of the system and a long speaker grille on either side of the system.

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Lover of legacy ports that I am, I appreciate the USB-A 3.2 port on the right of the system as much as I do the pair of Thunderbolt 4 ports on the left. Rounding out the portage, you get a headset jack and microSD card reader on the right and a full HDMI 2.1a port on the left. To cover your connectivity needs, the laptop is equipped with Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.

Colored in what Samsung calls Moonstone Gray, the 16-inch stunner would look right at home in your office, in a coffee shop, and of course, your lap.

At 4.1 pounds with a thickness of 0.65 inches, the Galaxy Book 4 is on a par with other premium 16-inch laptops. The Spectre x360 and XPS 16 are slightly heavier at 4.3 and 4.7 pounds, respectively.

I’m typically not a fan of bottom-mounted speakers as they tend to get muffled by my thick thighs (they save lives, or so I’m told). This was not the case as I listened to Beyoncé warn off the titular “Jolene.” The AKG quad speakers working in tandem with the Dolby Atmos software made sure that I heard the steady twang of the guitars accompanied by a spirited banjo with snappy percussion as the singer weaved between alto and a lilting mezzo-soprano. The Atmos software comes with five presets with three custom spots. For my listening tastes, I went with the Music setting on Warm.

Speaking of software, Samsung has far too much of it. And it’s not the typical Windows bloatware. No, this is from Samsung itself, preloading a ridiculous 17 company-branded apps. Some, like Samsung Recovery, Update, Settings, Care+, and Device Care. Others, like Bluetooth Sync, Gallery and Bixby not so much. It’s a rather ham-fisted attempt to integrate your other Samsung devices into the mix. I found some of the apps are redundant. Seriously, you don’t need Bixby and Cortana.

Despite having a 1080p, 30-fps webcam , the images aren’t as sharp or color accurate as I hoped. While it’s easy to see the details on my sweater, my hair looked fuzzy and the wall behind me was blown out. Also, my sweater looked darker than it actually is. I’m also missing a physical shutter to keep the Peeping Toms at bay. If you’re looking for better image quality you’ll want to invest in an external webcam.

The Galaxy Book 4 also has a couple of security features including TPM (Trusted Platform Module) which creates and stores cryptographic keys designed to keep the BIOS and OS secure. You also have the fingerprint scanner embedded in the power button.

Everything's better with AMOLED

If there’s one thing that Samsung is great at, it makes wonderful displays. The Galaxy Book 4 Ultra has a stunning 3K (2880 x 1800) Dynamic AMOLED touch display. It’s colorful, almost to the point of oversaturation, with incredibly sharp detail. I saw this first hand as I watched the trailer for “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” which served up lurid reds, vivid teals and verdant greens. I was captivated by the opening scene where droplets of blood glistened in the sunlight before splashing on the nearby foliage. The crispness of detail allowed me to see the spider-web cracks in actor’s Laya DeLeon Hayes glasses.

The glossy panel is anti-reflective, which significantly cuts down on glare, but it’s plenty bright, averaging 611 nits as measured by my lux meter. In terms of color reproduction, the screen had a result of 100% on the P3 gamut, 94% on Adobe sRBG and 92% on the NTSC gamut.

The touch panel is really agile and responsive, but man, I wish Samsung bundled a pen with this thing, as it’s a shame to muss up such a pretty display with fingerprints.

Keyboard and touchpad

Comfy keyboard, sticky touchpad.

I love it when a laptop sports a num pad . I personally see no use for it, but it’s a nice touch for the number crunchers out there. The Galaxy Book 4 fits a num pad onto its keyboard and doesn’t look or feel cramped for the effort. Plus, you have the Microsoft Copilot button in case you feel like taking AI for a test spin with a few questions. The keyboard even has direction keys, and yet as I typed this review, I never had to adjust my usual typing position to account for smaller keys.

The key spacing is generous and while the keys felt a little mushy to my tastes, I never experienced any bottoming out and had an overall pleasant experience. The keys give off a delicate click when pressed that’s quiet enough not to disturb an office mate.

And while I appreciate the size of the Galaxy Book’s touchpad, I wish it was a little more responsive, at least on the clicking front. I found it hard to get a right click to register unless I pressed it on the right spot. Other than that, the trackpad was fine, performing multitouch gestures with ease. Still, I’d recommend investing in a mouse to bypass that fickle touchpad.

Performance and battery

Knocked it out of the park.

With performance like this, there’s not much the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra can’t do. The Core 9 185H CPU and Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU makes a formidable duo with 32GB of LPDDR RAM and a 1TB M.2. PCIe SSD acts as the sprinkles and cherry on top. The laptop also has a NPU (Neural Processing Unit) for AI tasks.

With performance like this, there’s not much the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra can’t do.

This is a system that can handily switch between heavy productivity, photo and video editing, gaming and just about everything in between. It can definitely hang with the big boys such as the Dell XPS 16 and HP Spectre x360 16. I’d love to see how it hangs against the MacBook Pro.

While it’s somewhat expected, I’m pleasantly surprised to see how well the Galaxy Book 4 fared on our performance tests. On many of our tests, the laptop outperformed its competitors or at least matched them. For instance, the Samsung dominated PCMark 10 scoring 7,609 compared to the XPS 16’s 6,830 and the HP Spectre x360’s 6,668. We saw similar results on the graphics front with the Galaxy Book 4 crushing both the 3DMark Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme benchmarks.

Typically, laptops with discrete graphics tend to take a hit in battery life. That’s not so with the Samsung where it lasted 12 hours and 16 minutes on the PCMark 10 Modern Office battery test with the display set to approximately 200 nits and the power setting on Balanced. We reran the test with the power settings maxed out and the notebook tapped out after 692 minutes or 11 hours and 32 minutes. I personally squeezed 10 hours and 27 minutes out of the Samsung which was a mix of writing the review, browsing websites, watching a couple of episodes of “3 Body Problem,” and attending a few video meetings.

Should you buy the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra?

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You should buy the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra if:

• You don’t want to sacrifice power over portability
• You a content creator or a undercover gamer
• You want a large display
• You want to work a full work day unplugged

You should not buy the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra if:

• You don’t care for superfluous software
• You want a less finicky touchpad
• You want a better webcam

Now this is a premium laptop, one worthy of Samsung’s past laptop greatness. The Galaxy Book 4 Ultra is a beast in a thin-and-light’s chassis. The notebook is easily one of the best 16-inch laptops of the year. First things first, it’s a stately looking system with an eye-catching display. The keyboard, despite packing in a num pad, direction keys, and a Copilot button, is seriously comfortable and the speakers are surprisingly full and balanced.

But don’t sleep, this laptop has just as much brawn as it is beauty. Its beefy Intel Core 9 Ultra processor absolutely dominated the competition and ensures that you can multitask with the best of them. Throw in the discrete Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU and content creation and all the editing that comes with it are fair game as well as gaming at a high frame rate. And despite its powerful specs, it can go the distance with over 11 hours of battery life.

That’s not to say the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra is perfect as there’s a finicky touchpad to contend with and Samsung glut of pre-installed software. But if you can overlook those minor issues, the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra is the notebook du jour for your varied ways of work and play.

The king of 16-inch laptops

The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra packs a serious amount of power and endurance. The laptop more than capable of handling your needs for work, content creation or even gaming.

I replaced my MacBook Pro with the Honor MagicBook Pro 16 — here’s what happened

Has honor found its laptop mojo to take on apple.

Early Verdict

The Honor MagicBook Pro 16 is a solid all-rounder — providing the sleek chassis with a great screen and even better ergonomics, alongside plenty of horsepower under the hood. Whatever you throw at this, be it processor-intensive work, AAA gaming or content consumption, this can keep up with all of it (at the sacrifice of battery life).

Impressive performance

Great keyboard and touchpad

Zippy fingerprint scanner

Top notch display and speakers

Dull webcam with no IR

The white finish stains easily

Underwhelming battery life

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• Cheat Sheet

Honor has made some pretty forgettable laptops over the past few years, but all that has changed with the MagicBook Pro 16 — something I found out when using it as my daily driver instead of the M3 Pro MacBook Pro .

When it comes to taking aim at one of the kings of laptops in the form of Apple’s aluminum slab, you have to nail three things: design and ergonomics, screen and speakers, and great performance with power efficiency. It’s a tall order, but Honor comes so close to the point that by finding a fine balance between sleek stylings, pure power and (interestingly) gaming prowess.

This 16-inch machine manages to tick off most of these criteria, thanks to the Intel Core Ultra 7 and RTX 4060 pairing inside, a fantastic keyboard, a bright and vivid 16-inch 3K panel with 165Hz refresh rate, alongside some of the best speakers I’ve heard outside of a MacBook Pro.

That’s not to say everything can stand up to the Cupertino crew — some of it is a double-edged sword. That 115W TDP gives you solid performance, even during more intense workloads, but that 75Wh battery gets drained fast. In white with those dynamic edges, this laptop looks seriously sleek…well it would if the lid didn’t stain so easily. Seriously, I’m a clean freak and that slight yellowing was already present when I received this system.

Then there’s the webcam, which I’ve become accustomed to the inevitability of each tiny shooter atop a laptop looking like a potato, no matter how much AI you throw at it. But with these issues in mind, it’s clear that Honor has taken a giant step in the right direction. The MagicBook Pro 16 is not quite there in proving to be the MacBook Pro’s ultimate foe, but there’s a lot to love.

Honor MagicBook Pro 16: Cheat Sheet

• What is it? This is a powerful multi-purpose laptop — nailing prosumer work, AAA gaming and content consumption.
• Who is it for? I’d recommend this for creative pros with the power under the hood, but those gaming credentials could make it a good option for the players as well.
• What does it cost? We don’t know the global pricing as of yet, but we can make some conclusions based on the cost in the Chinese market. With a base model with Intel Core Ultra 5 at CNY 8,999 ($1,250 / £1,000), and the model we tested priced at CNY 9,999 ( $1,400 / £1,100), this could come in rather competitively.
• What do we like? It performs well, feels great to type on and has a stellar display/speaker combo for all your streaming/gaming needs.
• What don’t we like? The battery life isn’t too hot when under pressure, the webcam is dull, and that white finish of the lid stains easily.

Honor MagicBook Pro 16: Specs

Honor magicbook pro 16: the ups.

So we’ve got quite a lot to unpack here, because the MagicBook Pro 16 can be a lot of things to a lot of people — be it creative professionals, multitasking magicians or even gaming gurus.

Display + speakers = <3

It all starts with probably the most potent combination of the whole laptop — a divine display and stellar speakers (I promise I’ll stop with the alliteration now). 

Up top, the 16-inch 16:10 display sounds relatively standard with IPS LCD tech, but the colors are really well balanced to inspire confidence in any and all of your creative work accuracy, while bringing out the vividity of any games you throw at it. Plus the strong 500 nits of brightness with that matte coating atop makes it easy to read in bright lighting conditions.

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the buttery smooth 165Hz refresh rate. Of course this can be most easily spotted in games running with that slickness you know and love from some of the best gaming laptops, but even in your day-to-day, your eyes will thank you for the increased fluidity.

And then we turn our attention to the Honor Spatial Audio system — a combination of six speakers to make this the first Windows laptop to sport this technology. 

While the actual surround effect is kind of a dubious claim, what this bunch of tweeters and a subwoofer actually achieve is a sound quality that practically matches my MacBook Pro in terms of impressive details in the highs and mids, along with a nice bassy warmth. While there may be small ways to improve this (i.e. giving us an OLED display), the formula on offer here makes this a mightily satisfying machine for content consumption.

Solid all-round performer

This is backed up by surprisingly good performance. Not that Honor has shocked the world here — the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, RTX 4060 and 32GB of DDR5 RAM means this was always going to be quite the speed demon. But rather that this configuration and the high 115W TDP gives it more of an edge in gaming than you might think.

Outside of the MacBook Pro, I’d say the MagicBook Pro 16’s closest competition is the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra and, well, Honor comes real close to its more expensive brethren and in some circumstances, manages to absolutely trounce it. 

Of course this comes at the expense of battery life (more on that later), but my theory is since the Intel Core Ultra 9 and RTX 4070 of the 4 Ultra is stuck to 80W TDP, whereas Honor’s machine can go up to 115W; a lot more performance is extracted from these components.

Nothing from Intel is going to touch what the M3 line of silicon is capable of, but for the greater amount of things you can do on a Windows machine, alongside the simply salivating price-to-performance ratio of the MagicBook Pro 16, Honor has blindsided us with a real beast whatever you throw at it.

Stellar ergonomics for productivity

Then, you get to work on this machine, and you’re greeted by a generously-sized keyboard with a number pad. The 1.5mm key depth of these tactile switches makes every keystroke feel intentful, and you’ll love gliding across this board if you’re a fast typer. The subtle backlighting gives everything a nice, calm glow when working (or playing) at night, and even though this is a plastic construction, there’s none of that giveaway bend to the top deck that can distract you with a cheap, tacky feel.

Complimenting that is a vast touchpad with a lovely smooth surface that has a subtle friction to give you more precise control. I would’ve preferred to see a vibration-driven click like with the Force Touch trackpad on the MacBook Pro — instead you’ve got your standard bottom left and right clicks here. But the snappiness of said clicks is enough to forgive this missing element.

Once you get into your flow, the Honor MagicBook Pro 16 stays right there with you.

Honor MagicBook Pro 16: The downs

Given the pricing of this machine, Honor has made some difficult decisions — going in hard on certain aspects to tell the story of who this laptop should be for, while making compromises elsewhere. One thing, however, is a bit of an own goal.

More off-white than the family computer

You know the kind I’m talking about, right? Either that or I’m showing my age real bad here. The off white family computer that took pride of place in the living room — ready for you to play a ton of flash games and downloading “LiNkInGpArK-nUmB.exe” on Limewire for the impending wave of 24 viruses.

The pure white finish of the Honor MagicBook Pro 16 reminds me of those days, and not in a good way, as that lid can pick up discoloration so fast. By the way, this is coming from a clean freak. There ain’t no way I’m approaching this machine with a snack in hand, and still you can see the slight yellowing on the lid.

Let me be clear. This is not a beef about the physical design. I love the sharp edges with that brushed metal sheen, along with the sensible port arrangement that keeps your desk tidy. But some sort of color treatment is desperately needed to avoid it losing its white glow, and without it, you’re just left feeling a little let down.

Webcam could be better

Not much to say here. The 1080p camera doesn’t really feel like FHD, as pictures feel a little mushy in quality, and really ramp up the noise when lighting conditions go anywhere less than perfect.

Plus, it’s not the most helpful potato of a camera either, as no IR functionality means Windows Hello is limited to the fingerprint sensor. It is a fast one, though, but face scanning would’ve been far quicker.

Battery life is a letdown

We don’t have lab tested battery life scores yet, but I always expected this — looking at the max TDP and the size of that 75Wh cell inside. Something’s got to give, and it is the battery life. When just going casual with your usage, you can make it through a whole working day with roughly 10% left. But if your workload includes anything more than just a couple tabs on Chrome, make sure you have that beefy charger handy to keep it topped up.

Then when you throw a demanding game like Cyberpunk 2077 at it, you’ll be lucky to make it past an hour. I understand the choice being made here to lean into performance, but hopefully with the continual improvement of power efficiency in these chips and a larger cell in the next gen system, we can get past this. Either that or more immediately, some sort of more granular controls on the system wattage may be a good workaround.

Honor MagicBook Pro 16: Verdict

And that is the tale of one of the more surprising laptops of 2024 — one that shows Honor finally getting its groove in the notebook space. If the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra is Tony Polanco’s new favorite Windows laptop, the MagicBook Pro 16 is the cost effective alternative.

Because sure, when compared to my M3 Pro MacBook Pro, there are some key things missing like a premium aluminum unibody, lightning quick performance, and the legendary battery life. 

But Honor’s goal is to be all things to all people — a potent prosumer device by day, and a powerful entertainment machine by night. And you know what? I think with the issues taken into account, I think the team have only gone and cracked it.

Jason brings a decade of tech and gaming journalism experience to his role as a Managing Editor of Computing at Tom's Guide. He has previously written for Laptop Mag, Tom's Hardware, Kotaku, Stuff and BBC Science Focus. In his spare time, you'll find Jason looking for good dogs to pet or thinking about eating pizza if he isn't already.

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I tested Samsung's flagship laptop and it gave my MacBook Pro a run for its money

Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra

Pros and cons.

• Large OLED touchscreen display
• High-performance laptop with discrete GPU
• Fantastic battery life and efficiency
• Useful Samsung features (if you can use them)
• Large, physical trackpad leads to false inputs
• Noticeable amount of bloatware/ads for the price

ZDNET's buying advice

On the tail end of spring-season laptop releases, Samsung's Galaxy Book 4 Ultra shines with one of the best displays on the market -- now available with touchscreen support, performance configuration options that should satisfy content creators, work users, and even gamers, and battery life that will impress everyone.

The Ultra laptop still suffers from similar setbacks as its predecessor, which I tested last year , including the large, physical trackpad that either doesn't register taps at times or becomes too sensitive to inputs (the duality of this trackpad is quite baffling, I know), the lack of a full-size SD card slot, and a few too many Samsung-owned apps (read: bloatware, if you're not a Samsung user) and ad pop-ups that shouldn't be a talking point at this price.

You can expect to pay between $2,400 to $3,000 for the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra, which is a big ask, but the performance and hardware package you're getting in return justifies the price point. My buying advice is to wait for one of Samsung's sales events (usually during major holidays) and take advantage of its trade-in program, which can deduct up to $600 more. Case in point: you can pick up the highest configuration, which comes with an Intel Core Ultra 9, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, and 32GB of RAM, for $500 off at the time of writing.

Specifications

How i tested the samsung galaxy book 4 ultra.

I've used the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra as my daily driver for the past two weeks. My normal usage includes browsing the web, answering emails, writing articles like this, watching videos on YouTube and Netflix, and editing photos and videos for work and leisure. 

The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra comes in a new Moonstone Gray color that looks very similar to last year's Graphite.

Most of the time, the laptop is either hooked to an external monitor (meaning I try to run as many windows of apps and services at the same time as possible) or used in tandem with my Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra with the help of Quick Share and Second Screen. Both cross-platform features worked very smoothly, though they're mainly compatible with Samsung devices and Samsung devices only.

For performance testing, I ran Cinebench 2024 to calculate the single, multi, and GPU scores of the laptop, while also taking notes on day-to-day aspects like fan speed and loudness, system temperature, frame rate drops, and more.

What are the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra's best features?

Big, touchscreen, OLED display:  Need I say more? When I reviewed last year's Galaxy Book 3 Ultra, I mentioned that "a display that is both touchscreen-enabled and glossy is a recipe for a visual disaster." With the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra, Samsung basically said "Hold my OLED," and gave its 16-inch display touchscreen support and a new anti-reflective cover glass. These two features make interacting with a laptop this powerful one of the most intuitive, visually satisfying experiences I've tested. 

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Stretching out an image in order to erase blemishes in Photoshop just hits different when you can pinch-zoom with your fingers. (Now if only Samsung can add S Pen support.) While the Galaxy Book's new display is not as anti-glare as say, Samsung's S95D TV or Galaxy S24 Ultra , I've had no problem using it beside the biggest window at ZDNET's New York office. Mind you we're situated on the highest floor of the building, so sunlight is the second most prevalent thing after awkward elevator rides.

Spacious keyboard with surprising tactility:  I'm not as passionate about keyboards as my ZDNET colleague Cesar Cadenas , but I type enough every day to have a feel for what's good and what's not. That's to say I rate the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra keyboard a 7/10; it's spacious, with a full-on number pad for the data crunchers, a dedicated Copilot key for quick access to the Windows AI assistant, and quiet yet tactile feedback on each key that invites you to keep typing and typing.

The keys are evenly spaced, with a number pad, a Copilot key, and a power button that doubles as a fingerprint sensor.

The one quirk with the laptop is that it takes a worrying amount of time to boot up. I often found myself staring blankly at the screen after pressing and holding the power button, only for the Samsung logo to appear right as I was prepared to search for a charger. 

No, seriously; the charger, which only fields one USB-C port, is massive.

Battery life that lasts and lasts:  That is my flawless segue into charging and battery life, two other aspects I'm a big fan of with the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra. Save for the unwieldy, cheese-slice-sized charger that comes in the box, there's not much for me to complain about when it comes to powering the laptop and its endurance. 

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On average, I got roughly ten hours of usage before needing to top up the device. That's impressive for a 16-inch, 3K OLED laptop that's powered by a discrete graphics card. When I did need to charge, the proprietary power brick gave the Galaxy Book a 55% charge after 30 minutes.

Intel Core Ultra and discrete GPU make all the difference : You're not wrong to chalk up the improved efficiency of the Galaxy Book to the new Intel Core Ultra 7 or 9 chips powering the unit. I'd do the same. When you combine the backend capabilities of Intel's NPU with a discrete Nvidia GeForce 4050/4070 GPU that's no longer the newest on the market but still great, you get a system that runs most apps and services fluidly, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Lightroom, and gaming on Steam. 

Here are the Cinebench scores, compared to competing laptops, for reference. While the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra's scores won't set any records, they're in line with the industry standard and competitive with Apple's flagship MacBook, which is great to see.

What I'd like to see in the next model 

Less bloatware and ads, more features for everyone:  For a near-$3,000 laptop, the amount of pre-installed apps, pop-up ads to download McAfee's antivirus service, and Samsung-exclusive features lessens what would otherwise be a premium user experience. Such things are common on cheaper laptops because they allow manufacturers to offload much of the retail cost. In Samsung's case, it's charging more for a laptop that's not shy about selling you services you may or may not need. That's a no-no for me.

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A smaller haptic trackpad:  If I could fix anything hardware-related, it would be the trackpad. While the abnormally large trackpad on the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra is useful in theory, the off-centered placement of it meant I'd frequently move the mouse or, worse yet, register a click when my palm was simply resting down. 

The trackpad is also a physical one, meaning it presses down instead of mimicking the feel of it via haptic motors like on the MacBook Pro and Dell XPS . As a result, when I did want to click, drag, or tap on something, I had to find the "sweet spot" on the trackpad to register it properly. Otherwise, pressing too close to the corners and edges would oftentimes not register anything at all.

Final thought  

While it's easy to recommend the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra as the "MacBook Pro for Samsung users," several upgrades this year, including the Intel Core Ultra chip for AI applications, touchscreen display, and improved battery life, make the laptop a formidable pickup for just about every Windows user. Just note that if you're a content creator who relies on full-sized SD cards to transfer photos and videos, you'll want to pick up a dongle or docking station to work with the Galaxy Book. There's also no charging port on the laptop's right side, so you'll want to think twice when situating near an outlet.

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Stream It or Skip It: ‘Legend of the Lost Locket’ on Hallmark, a Low-Key ‘When Calls the Heart’ Side Project 

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Hallmark’s flagship channel takes a cue from Hallmark Mystery with Legend of the Lost Locket . This romance is equal parts history and mystery, with a teensy bit of small town intrigue. Natasha Burnett and Viv Leacock star as an unlikely duo on the hunt for, well, a legendary lost locket. But is this a mystery you’ll want to see solved? Or should this whole caper have stayed lost?

LEGEND OF THE LOST LOCKET : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

The Gist: Natasha Burnett ( When Calls the Heart ) plays Amelia, a British antiques dealer with one specific historical trinket on her to-find list: the lost locket of Queen Elizabeth I, which was gifted to her by her one true love, Sir Robert Dudley. This is a hunt that Amelia has inherited from her mom — who has “dead parent” on their Hallmark romance movie bingo card? — and she’s just uncovered a lead that could change everything. It turns out that one half of the locket’s last keepers, a British couple in the 19th century, may have traveled to an area outside Boston and helped found a town called Wilmaton. There’s only one way for Amelia to find out if this lead leads anywhere: grab your passport, because you’re going to Boston…ish!

Amelia’s arrival in Wilmaton is less than welcoming, what with her car breaking down and all (another square on the bingo card). She’s offered a ride from Marcus ( When Calls the Heart — hey, these two play the Canfields on Hallmark’s long-running historical drama!) and quickly settles into a bed and breakfast of historical significance. Also Marcus’s sister owns the B&B. And also Marcus is the town sheriff. Really, Marcus just keeps popping up everywhere — but it’s hard to avoid anyone in a town as small as Wilmaton.

One thing that is hard to find, though, are the town’s archives. And the mayor (Hrothgar Mathews of When Calls the Heart — what is going on here?!) is acting super, super shady about Amelia’s search. Of course Amelia isn’t telling the whole truth either because she knows the town would be overrun with antiques hunters should word get out that the missing half of the lost locket could be in Wilmaton. There are a lot of mysteries to uncover here — including one involving Amelia’s growing attachment to a certain sheriff.

What Programs Will It Remind You Of?: The cozy village vibes are pure Murder, She Wrote (the sweaters!), with a dash of Antiques Roadshow (the way Amelia can recount the provenance of anything she touches is basically a superpower) and even a little bit of Sleepy Hollow’s spookiness (who is stalking Amelia?!).

Performance Worth Watching: I gotta give it up to Beverley Elliot ( A World Record Christmas ) as Aunt Enid, a woman looking for any excuse to ditch meditation class.

Memorable Dialogue: This exchange highlighting how small Wilmaton really is: “Maybe I’ll see you around.” “It would be impossible not to.”

Our Take: The When Calls the Heart connection between three of the movie’s actors (four if you count Kevin O’Grady, who guest-starred on WCTH ) answers the one burning question I had while watching Legend of the Lost Locket : why isn’t this on Hallmark Mystery? It all makes sense when you consider that When Calls the Heart Season 11 just premiered last week . This is what we call network synergy, baby! It’s not synergy for synergy’s sake, though, because Legend of the Lost Locket is a fun little mystery even if you’re unaware of the Canfield connection.

No, Legend of the Lost Locket isn’t breaking any new ground in the Hallmark mystery genre. The script is packed with all the tropes you know as well as a few that are becoming more and more commonplace (you better believe they find a way to get the leads into 19th century formalwear!). All that’s fine, though, because the chemistry between Burnett and Leacock is hard to resist. They’re a dynamic duo, with Burnett playing the proper Brit who seeks antiques with unrivaled passion, and Leacock playing a small town sheriff who is also a cinnamon roll .

I will give Legend of the Lost Locket credit where credit is definitely due: for all the cozy mystery tropes, this movie actually does keep you guessing. Amelia and Marcus keep unraveling mysteries within mysteries — which I guess is also kinda like a cinnamon roll. And I have to commend Lost Locket on skillfully making Wilmaton feel like a real place, with a variety of townspeople who you could all see playing central roles in future antiques-related mysteries. What I’m saying is, between When Calls the Heart and the Amelia Scott History Mysteries series I just dreamed up, Burnett and Leacock could (and maybe should) spend the entire year working together.

Our Call: STREAM IT. Legend of the Lost Locket isn’t making history, but it’s a quaint little caper that will have added appeal to Hearties .

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