Samsung launches its most powerful Galaxy Book to date, the Galaxy Book Odyssey

The Galaxy Book Odyssey brings the latest high-end specs to the Galaxy Book lineup.

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What you need to know

Samsung keeps announcing laptops at its Galaxy Unpacked event. On the heels of theGalaxy Book Pro, Galaxy Book Pro 360, and the non-proGalaxy Book, Samsung also announced the refreshedGalaxy Book Odyssey. It’s the most powerful Galaxy Book laptop to date, and comes with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q GPU. You can also go with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q if you prefer.

The Galaxy Book Odyssey pairs its GPU with an 11th Gen Intel Core i5 or Core i7 CPU. To go along with its powerful pair of processors, the laptop also comes with up to 32GB of DDR4x RAM and up to 1TB of NVMe SSD storage.

While it is the most powerful Galaxy Book laptop to date, it lags behind thebest gaming laptopsin terms of hardware.

The Galaxy Book Odyssey will be available in August 2021 with a starting price of $1,400.

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