Samsung’s updated Galaxy Book5 Pro lineup gets an Intel Arrow Lake boost

Samsung is rolling out an updated line of Galaxy Books on Consumer Electronics Show 2025. The new Galaxy Book5 Pro (available in 16-inch and 14-inch displays) and Book5 360 (15-inch display) are equipped Latest Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra processors. Since these laptop chips are designed for AI tasks, it’s no surprise that Samsung is as well Promote A long list of on-device AI features found in laptops, including their equivalents Google search department.

AI Select is Samsung’s branding for its Circle to Search equivalent. Like a lot Google’s AI trick for mobile devicesit lets you select an area on your screen and “instantly retrieve search results for it.” The Galaxy Book line also has an on-device image upscaling feature that can enhance details and clean up blurry images with Intel’s fast NPU. (It can process AI tasks at up to 47 trillion operations per second.)

Both versions of the Galaxy Book5 Pro have a 2880 x 1800 AMOLED touchscreen with a variable refresh rate of up to 120Hz. (Although this means the smaller model has a higher pixel density.) The 16-inch model is 0.49 inches (12.5 mm) thick and weighs 3.44 pounds. Estimated 25 hours of video playback.

Its 14-inch counterpart is slightly thinner at 0.46 inches (11.7 mm) but 21 percent lighter at 2.71 pounds. Estimated battery life is much lower at 21 hours of video playback.

Meanwhile, the Galaxy Book5 360 has a 15.6-inch AMOLED touchscreen with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and a 60Hz refresh rate. (Samsung Launched the ‘Pro’ variant. late last year with a sharper, smoother 3K/120Hz display.) The company says its new 2-in-1 foldable model is good for 31 hours of video playback.

All three devices can be equipped with Intel Core Ultra 7 “Evo” processors, but this only comes as standard on the 16-inch Galaxy Book5 Pro. The 14-inch model and the Galaxy Book5 360 use the Core Ultra 5 “Evo” chip in cheaper configurations. Both Galaxy Book5 Pro variants offer 16GB and 32GB memory options and 256GB, 512GB and 1TB storage tiers. The Galaxy Book5 360 is limited to 16GB of memory and 256GB or 512GB of storage.

Samsung says pricing and retail partner information will be available soon. All three Galaxy Book5 models will be available in February in the US, Canada, UK, Germany and France.