A 14.6-inch touchscreen on a tablet just 5.5mm thick is quite a thing to hold. It’s about the size of a printed magazine (remember those?) but twice as heavy, thick enough to represent about 128 glossy full-colour pages but capable of containing the whole of human knowledge, or at least as much as you can get through before the battery gives out.
Even the box feels slender - there's no charger included, but you do get a stylus - but there's also an elephant. You can’t make a tablet like this and not have it compared to another large tablet that ends with ‘Pro’, especially when you want to charge more than £1,000 for it. With desktop-class processors and a gorgeous mini-LED screen (the new OLED-equipped M4 iPad Pro would be an unfair comparison, as it was announced well after Samsung’s release) Apple’s big slate attracts creatives, so can the Galaxy do the same and become a future-proof iPad alternative? The answer comes down to the software.
