After having tried most of the other mainstream 15.6" laptops, I settled on the 16GB i7 Xenia Xe and LOVE it.
Note that I am NOT a gamer. I use it as a second laptop at home and for working remotely when AWAY from home. (I have a loaded 32GB Acer Predator hooked up to two 24" Dell Ultra Sharp monitors for working from home).
The XPG Xenia Xe has pretty much everything I love about the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex:
- Solid performance
- Very portable and reasonably lightweight for a 15.6" laptop
- Very good battery life
- Great very bright screen.
The XPG also adds the following additional benefits over the Galaxy Book Flex for me:
- Nicer keyboard feel (albeit, perhaps, a bit too stiff - high actuation force required)
- Better audio (crisper and louder)
- Better wifi performance (despite same Intel AX201 Wifi 6 adapter as the Flex). I get almost 50% better speeds with the XPG than the Flex. XPG > 600 Mbps over wifi when far from the router / satellite, vs only 400 Mbps for the Galaxy Book Flex.
- Lightning fast SSD (drive)
- Additional ports (USB-A most notably and HDMI)
- Much quieter so far (likely due to more room under the unit for cooling.
I have tried all of the following and prefer the XPG Xenia Xe for it all around performance and features:
Dell XPS15 (kept about 2 years I believe, then sold)
LG Gram 15 (returned to store)
MSI (returned to store).
Lenovo Thinkpad Extreme Gen 1 (kept 1 year. then sold)
HP Elitebook 1050 G1 (kept 1 year, then given to my wife for WFH, along with her XPS13 - which was also mine before)
Samsung Galaxy Book Flex (owned for 1 year 2 months till I found out about the XPG Xenia Xe).
Aside from it not being cheap, it is a great laptop (again I am NOT a gamer)!
Nice job Adata!
The only thing missing IMO is a 2nd memory slot to support RAM upgrades (to 32GB e.g.)
But 16GB is enough for now.