TL;DR
- The Galaxy Book6 Pro is built around a power-efficient and speedy Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 CPU that can handle all your creative apps and easily cope with multi-tasking duties – and its efficiency helps drive an impressive level of battery life
- Samsung has provided an excellent Dynamic AMOLED 2X touchscreen which is highly colour-accurate, with deep blacks and vibrant colours, as well as an AI-powered Advanced Vision Booster which fine-tunes the screen's settings for the best results in real-time
- There's a raft of AI functionality to turbocharge your creativity which doesn't just include Copilot+ PC features, but also Samsung exclusive capabilities that you won't get elsewhere – alongside a whole lot of useful synergy with other Samsung devices
If you're a creative type – whether that's your job, or your passion (hopefully both) – don't underestimate the importance of buying the right laptop.
A good choice in this respect can help to boost your creativity, not just in some of the more obvious ways – like having a gorgeous, colour-accurate screen – but in ways that you may not have thought about.
This article will go over some of the questions you may have about creative notebooks, specifically considering how Samsung's new Galaxy Book6 Pro is a strong pick for these duties, and how the two versions of this laptop – 14-inch and 16-inch – pack functionality and hardware that can enhance your creativity in ways that might surprise you.
1. The screen is vital for creative work such as photo or video editing – is the display on the Galaxy Book6 Pro suitably accurate and high-quality?
Yes, the Galaxy Book6 Pro has an excellent screen that can help you work on creative tasks, with a colour-accurate Dynamic AMOLED 2X display which is one of the standout highlights of this notebook.
What you're getting here with both the 14-inch and 16-inch models is an AMOLED touchscreen which boasts 1,000 nits of peak HDR brightness. That's an excellent level of brightness and this AMOLED screen delivers rich and vivid colours, meaning that whether you're editing photos or video, the image or footage will have quite the impact.
Moreover, the colours will be true-to-life, and the Galaxy Book6 Pro's screen offers 100% coverage of the DCI-P3 colour gamut (with 120% colour volume, meaning colours are even more vibrant). The display is pin-sharp, too, with a high resolution of 2,880 x 1,800, and a refresh rate of 120Hz (maximum) for the fluid display of video.
On top of this, Samsung's Advanced Vision Booster, an AI-driven system, takes into account the ambient light levels and the content that's on the screen, fine tuning images on-the-fly for even better quality and visibility.
In short, prepare for a jaw-dropping picture, and an accurate one for whatever creative image work you're engaged in. There's no need to worry about being bothered by reflections with this touchscreen, either, as it's Corning Gorilla Glass with DXC to combat the likes of glare in more brightly lit environments. The mentioned high brightness levels of the display also help with the clarity of the screen in these situations, too.
2. In terms of performance with creative apps, will the Galaxy Book6 Pro be able to handle, say, Adobe Photoshop, and demanding multi-tasking?
Samsung's laptop can cope with running all the commonly used creative apps out there, and the Intel® processor is powerful enough to easily deal with multi-tasking.
The CPU inside the Galaxy Book6 Pro is an Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake), with options up to a Core Ultra X7 358H. This chip won't break a sweat when it comes to running multiple apps simultaneously or loading up a bunch of images in Photoshop – it's a big upgrade on Intel's® previous generation of mobile processors. In fact, according to Intel's® own testing, Panther Lake is up to 60% faster than Lunar Lake with multi-threaded performance (as measured in Cinebench 2024), which is quite the leap.
Windows 11 boots extremely fast, and the interface is very snappy and responsive with the Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 processor at the helm backed by a fast SSD. Whatever you're doing with the Galaxy Book6 Pro, you won't be drumming your fingers on the desk impatiently while looking at spinning icons or loading screens.
3. How about research and organizing the early stages of a creative project – can the Galaxy Book6 Pro help there?
Planning out a project – and finding what you need in terms of files – is made a far easier process thanks to some clever AI tricks which are exclusive to Samsung's Galaxy Books (and not seen on other Copilot+ PCs).
When it comes to organizing a creative project (or any project for that matter), you've got some extra options in your armoury with this Samsung laptop – namely the Galaxy AI suite.
First of all, one of the smartest features here is AI Select. This allows you to select any text on the touchscreen – just highlight it with your fingers – and you'll instantly get search information on that. The same is true with images (if you want to identify something in a picture quickly, for example). This can also be used to swiftly extract and summarize a chunk of text, if needed.
Note Assist in Galaxy AI is a capability that allows you to quickly take notes and organize your ideas. You might use it to jot down details during a meeting, for example, and if you end up with a long sprawling list of notes, the AI can summarize this into key bullet points for you – or even translate notes into a different language.
There's also Intelligent Search, which facilitates a natural language search, so when you're trying to pull content together for a project, but you can't remember exactly where it is on your laptop, it's easy to find. For example, you can simply describe an image ("dog in the sand dunes") to have Galaxy AI find it for you without having to remember specific file names.
4. What about helping with creativity directly – are there any AI features to make image editing, or other creative tasks, easier?
Yes, more broadly for all Copilot+ PCs like the Galaxy Book6 Pro, there are a number of features built into Windows 11 which can turbocharge your creativity, enabling you to get things done quicker.
In Windows 11's Paint app you'll find the Cocreator feature. This is an AI ability that lets you sketch out a rough idea, then fills in all the details for you, allowing you to modify the results as needed (or pick different art styles for the image). The Photos app has a Restyle Image option which offers a similar trick for photos, and the Image Creator feature lets you knock up an entirely new image from scratch using a simple text prompt.
Those are just a few examples of the powerful AI capabilities provided by Copilot+ PCs, all of which happen responsively thanks to the Panther Lake processor's integrated NPU, which delivers up to 50 TOPS of performance for accelerating AI tasks on the device.
It's also worth noting that Samsung's Galaxy AI suite sports a useful capability in this department as part of the aforementioned AI Select tool. This is the AI Cut Out feature where you can highlight an element on the screen and instantly have it cut for pasting elsewhere. There's a raft of ways in which the Galaxy Book6 Pro boosts your creativity with AI powers, whether they're Copilot+ PC features or Samsung's own exclusive AI tools.
5. If I need to take my laptop out for work, is the battery life good enough to last on the move, and is the Galaxy Book6 Pro compact and easy to carry around?
This Samsung laptop has excellent battery life, and that means you can keep working on creative tasks for extended periods away from a power socket – and the Galaxy Book6 Pro is highly portable, too.
The power-efficiency of the Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 CPUs represents a new high for Intel®, and that helps ensure longer battery life. On top of that, the laptop's Dynamic AMOLED 2X screen has an adaptive refresh rate, so it doesn't have to run at its maximum of 120Hz. It can drop down to as low as 30Hz when a fluid refresh rate isn't required, such as with static images like looking at a document – this helps to save battery, too.
The end result is Samsung's claimed battery life of up to 30 hours, which is for local 1080p video playback (with brightness at 150 nits and airplane mode on). And with an ultra-slim aluminium frame – the 14-inch model measures just 11.6mm thin, and weighs 1.24kg – this laptop is easy to fit into a bag or backpack. Even the 16-inch model is just 11.9mm and weighs 1.59kg, so it's unusually portable for a larger notebook.
6. Are there any other ways in which the Galaxy Book6 Pro might help boost my creativity?
Yes, the design and input peripherals of this laptop make creative work easier, and there are some compelling additional benefits for those who own other Samsung Galaxy devices.
The fact that the Galaxy Book6 Pro has a touchscreen (for both 14-inch and 16-inch models) means you can edit images or other content directly on that display for convenience. And when you're not using the screen, there's an expansive and high-quality touchpad that offers smart palm rejection and very precise pointing (with customizable haptic feedback so you can tune the feel of the click to your liking).
For those who already own other Galaxy devices, there's a lot of synergy on offer with this Samsung laptop. The Storage Share feature lets you seamlessly grab any images or files across your shared Galaxy devices, so for example you can open a photo that's on your Galaxy smartphone directly on the Galaxy Book6 Pro immediately and without any fuss. You can also use your Galaxy tablet as a second screen for the Galaxy Book6 Pro, which could be seriously useful in creative projects.
On top of this, the Multi Control functionality links the screens of multiple Galaxy devices, so you can move the mouse cursor from the desktop of the Galaxy Book6 Pro onto your smartphone (or tablet) screen and use it there. That's a seriously neat touch, and a huge timesaver for communication alone, as you can write out texts for your phone using the laptop keyboard.
If you're interested in buying a Galaxy Book6 Pro, you can order the laptop direct from Samsung.