Better than M1 iPad Pro?!! Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra

Patrick Rambles
Mac O’Clock
Published in
17 min readMay 16, 2022

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A little while ago, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra came out and, being a tech YouTuber, I immediately picked one up for review. Especially since the iPad Pro has historically played an important part on my YouTube channel and Samsung’s newest flagship tablet might just be powerful enough to become the only “iPad Killer” on the market. The question of course is whether it lives up to the hype and whether it is in fact the iPad killer I’ve had some time to test both devices against each other and here’s my thoughts!

Disclaimer

Alright so before we get into this, I want to clarify a few things: yes, I am an Apple user, I use an iPhone 13 Pro, A 14 inch Macbook Pro with the M1 Max chip, I love my iPad mini 6, and of course my M1 iPad Pro, which is the iPad we will be pitting against the Samsung today. Heck, I even wear and Apple Watch. But would I consider myself an Apple fanboy? Absolutely not, I come from many years of Android usage, I will use whatever works best for me at a given time, I am a lover of tech not, a lover of brands. If you want to know why I ended up switching everything to Apple, there’s a little story time in my S8 Ultra Unboxing video.

Anyway, I can confidently say that I went into this test without much bias and fully open to accepting whatever outcome I would find. Now, with…

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Patrick Rambles
Mac O’Clock

YouTuber and tech enthusiast. Passionate tech story teller, who cares about actual use cases more than spec sheets.