Apple is gonna LOVE this one...

So today we're checking out one of the most anticipated monitors

It's for good reason. I mean, this thing, it looks nice. I think that matters

This is a thing that sits on your desk. It also has a bunch of different features in it

so that it can kind of take the place of your TV as well. More and more people, sort of their main screen

is like in their bedroom or in a smaller space. You want to have it be multifunction

So you want to have the display be connected to your computer. You want it to have opportunity to be connected wirelessly

to the variety of devices that you have. You also just want to load up like Netflix or Disney Plus or whatever, and you want to have

speakers in it and you want to have a webcam in it. That's where this one comes in. Plus

it kind of looks like other displays you might be familiar with from other brands. Maybe that's

not a bad thing. I mean, ultimately, there's only so many ways you can make a rectangle. Some of the

slimmest bezels that you're going to see on a monitor, period. I mean, it's very slim and trim

It's called the M8. It is from Samsung, obviously. It's a 4K display and it's 60 hertz. So it's not

targeting gamers or anything like that for productivity and obviously for entertainment

no problem it's available in a number of different colors as well so i have the blue one highlighted

but you can get it in white green and pink the price does change which is a little strange so

6.99 starting price for the white model and then it goes up 30 bucks if you want one of these

fancier colors now there's some other cool features that i've never seen before in a monitor that

we're going to see in here because you get a remote control which is so much nicer for interacting

with your monitor when you want to change a particular feature function specification whatever

like you want to go into the menu system when you have to reach up and touch the tiny little button

and kind of move through menus like that it can be very irritating on this device you could do it

from the comfort of your couch or bed wherever you have this thing installed and you can see you have

dedicated buttons there's also a very cool webcam contraption essentially what you're dealing with

is a entire smart tv with monitor built in any feature or function you would expect to find on a

Samsung Smart TV, they've brought into this M8 monitor. And then at the same time

you're gonna connect your typical HDMI cable if you just want to use it as a monitor

Kind of standalone wireless or wired or both. And you can see a couple of scenarios here

Regular humans doing regular human things. Oh, I'm gonna just wirelessly transmit some of my photos

in my nice looking office. Screw it. I like to work at my kitchen table

which sometimes becomes my workplace. This individual is just using a mouse and keyboard connected

directly to the monitor because the monitor has a processor built into it can actually do basic

functions office functions and web browsing this person over here is like i don't even care about

anything i'm just gonna plop this on the coffee table because i live a more like nomadic lifestyle

and i might be here one day and i might be somewhere else tomorrow these look like vinyl

records when you have all these records over here you can't have the room dominated by a huge tv

you need a 32 inch so you can just like pick it up move it from room to room flexibility it's

possibility. Boom. Wirelessly connected to the laptop. Okay, cool. You don't need that. No PC

Sick. By the way, it also has voice assistant built in either Bixby or Amazon Alexa that lets

you use it as a hub for certain other devices, including speakers and lamps. You can use this

as your voice assistant. So just shout at your monitor and then have it modify certain settings

on your other devices. And the other storyline I want to talk about is just the embracing of

Samsung in a Mac environment. You never know how these things are going to go. Is there hostility

I don't like it. Personally, I think things should work together. And I think things are more attractive to me

when they work cross-platform. Samsung is embracing the fact that there are going to be iOS

and Apple devices interacting with this monitor. Convenient connectivity with AirPlay integration

wirelessly connect Apple devices to the smart monitor to view on the bigger screen. Enjoy your favorite content from an iPhone, iPad, and Mac

on the smart monitor, and even mirror apps, documents, and websites. And they're showing off an iPhone

That's pretty cool. And when you think about it, there's not that many monitors that Apple makes

that are in this, they don't make a single monitor in this price bracket. That's kind of a nice little touch

If you get the white model here, you're looking at 699. And I think probably Samsung imagines

that certain Apple device users are gonna pick this thing up. And so they're like, all right, let's make it work with that

since that's what we might be targeting. If you think about it in the Apple realm, you're either looking at the studio display

or you're looking at the iMac. And these things are obviously quite a bit more expensive. Well, in the case of the iMac

you get a whole computer in there, that's fine. I mean, you could do a Mac mini setup with this or maybe you already own a MacBook

And that's actually what I'm gonna be connecting in this video. So I'm gonna wirelessly connect a MacBook Pro

to this display as an option. Yes, it's 4K. Yes, it's 60 Hertz, but it has all those other functions

in order to be a hub in whatever room you wanna place it in. It'll do Samsung DeX too

Oh, the other thing to mention, this is 32 inches. So if you are thinking of doing that iMac comparison

this is a little bit larger than the iMac. From what I understand and what I've seen, it's very, very slim

i thought we were gonna have the basic plain white one but it looks like we have the sunset color

which is cool this thing is incredibly thin and light so i'm really starting to grasp what samsung is telling

me on their website when the girl had it on the coffee table from room to room just the display

that you can put anywhere that you can interact with wirelessly that is convenient i mean i not calling it portable but like if a 32 inch display could be portable As far as other items in the package we have our power brick slash power cable set up

There's also our webcam, which magnetically attaches, which I'm gonna show you in a moment

and a USB type C cable. You can connect devices to this and have pass through power

So this can actually charge your notebook up to 65 Watts, I believe, which is the reason

you have a substantial power brick. So you can have a single connection point without the need for a separate power adapter

for your laptop. So this right here is the little webcam contraption

I really like this implementation because you got a lot more people talking about

and thinking about privacy. If it's not in use, you just pop it off

It also doesn't affect or impact your bezel. So you can have this really slim bezel

all the way around the monitor. The other advantage is you can adjust it up and down

so you can get a nice angle without the need to adjust the entire monitor

So if you do a lot of video conferencing and meetings and such, then that can be useful

It also will do face tracking from side to side, as you've seen demonstrated on a number of other devices

It's a nice little addition and the whole thing pops off when it's not in use. There's even a cap that fits on the back

So you have two options for privacy. You can either pop the entire thing off of the back of the monitor

or you can pull from the rear of the camera, this little cap, which magnetically fits on

So really cool engineering and design on here. Look how slim that is

two privacy options and a webcam when you need it and no webcam when you don't. Now there's another

cool magnetic component which is right here. So this little piece fits into the bottom of the

camera like this and then this connects to the monitor and that's going to be passing power to

the device without the need to actually plug anything in which means that when you want to

remove it it is just like one pull and then the entire camera unit is off of the monitor. Now the

monitor also has video conferencing apps built in without the need for any other device. So you can

use like Google Duo right on the monitor and do your meetings or whatever you want to do

Here's our type C cable. This is the remote control. So it's a very slim kind of streamlined

remote. You have your direction pad up in the top portion here. The center actually is like a soft

touch material. So you can tell the difference in texture between the direction ring around the

outside and the main button in the center. You have a microphone button. That's for your voice

assist that you can see the microphone in the center. Power button, just like a television

You know, this is a smart display, so you can use it more in the direction of a TV or more in the

direction of a computer monitor. You have that flexibility, but if you're using it from a little

bit further away, then that's nice. Just hit the power button, go to sleep. Like I could picture

this being in like in people's bedrooms or something like that. You also have a home button

back button play pause. We have these up down toggles for volume or channels and then dedicated

quick buttons for Netflix, Samsung TV plus, Disney plus and prime video. So you can quickly get into

your different streaming services. Now this cable is a little bit funky. So it is a, it is a micro

HDMI to full size HDMI. The full size is going to go to whatever device you choose to connect

could be like a game console or another computer. The micro side is going to be for the monitor side

But I assume that the incentive to do this is probably around size and keeping the thing as slim as possible

That's the only reason I can imagine you would do that. Now, this is your power brick

Why would you have such a beefy power brick? Well, it's powering the monitor, which does have a processor in it

Powering speakers, which are also in the monitor. The main thing here is that it's capable of passing through to your laptop up to 65 watts

Hence the scale of it. Okay, let's go ahead and slide this out

Yeah, so we definitely have sunset color. You can see the very subtle accent on the front here

a little bit of a chin, and then the bezel is stupid thin

Here we have some IR probably for input from your remote control

And then on the back, you can see this herringbone pattern is what they're calling it

It has a little bit of a texture to it. You can also see the speaker units over here

This is where you're gonna see your micro HDMI port as well as your first type C

and then your second type C connector. There's also your DC 20 volt input

but there is a little navigation joystick there, which I probably will never reach for

because I have the remote control, which is going to probably be less irritating

Then there's the spot for connecting your stand. Oh, and then at the very top

that's where the magnetic camera will attach. This is the main part of the base

couple of little foot pads on the bottom, one single screw. Now you can probably tell right away

that this stand is gonna have some degree of maneuverability. little bit of tilt in here and then obviously height adjustability here

it's always a hunt looking for all the little plastic i always feel the need to get them all

off sometimes there's little ones that persist this is a fairly substantial display 32 inches

And sometimes I wonder, like when Samsung is imagining the kind of ultimate smart monitor how they land on 32 I mean I think it a good decision Apple just came out with that studio display went with 27 inches You know how Apple is they been very specific about pixel density and so forth The iMac is 24 inches when you considering a smart display

that you're imagining as being also an entertainment device like where you're going to interact with a

lot of multimedia Netflix and such and you really can utilize a little bit of extra space. So this

little section right here this is a magnetic connector so yeah this is really simple to set up

you just have to put in this little uh usbc to magnetic four pin connector and then you just

reach up here and that's it that's it your camera's connected you want to take it off and it's off so

maybe you prefer the look without the camera poking out the top or maybe it's privacy related

but then you get that secondary option of just covering the camera in this fashion and then from

the front i don't know i kind of like the look of this just this little cylinder above the monitor

rather than having to have a larger forehead on the entire display in order to fit in

I know you could probably do a notch as well, but I presume that this camera

is gonna be slightly higher quality since it is just a larger module, a little bit more flexibility

with your glass and whatnot in there. No camera. Camera. Anything magnetic is satisfying

It feels like every connector ever should be magnetic at this point. Now you knew we had to do it

of course, there has to be a comparison. Actually, it isn't quite a monitor, but instead, an entire

computer, which is the iMac, at a much different price point, as you're aware. But we just got to

show. So this is the comparison that people are making? I guess maybe it's less so in real life

than online. People were posting screenshots drawing these comparisons. I guess the stand

but the chin is much larger on the iMac. The iMac, as I mentioned, it's an entire computer. They're

both very thin. As you can see, you have to have this forehead here to fit this webcam in. Here

Here we have the detachable webcam, which I think that might be a thing

that Apple wants to take from Samsung, to be honest. Again, it's a weird comparison

because this is not exactly a computer. Let's go ahead and boot up the monitor

and then try out a couple of different scenarios. Oh, there we go

Man, I kinda needed that right now. Menu music, not always there

sound volume and brightness will be optimized by yzing your viewing environment and the

current content an interesting choice here on a multimedia monitor that they went with

a completely matte display and in this environment i'm noticing a lot fewer reflections but you know

how it is sometimes when you have that glossy finish you get a little bit more pop to it trying

to find that balance between reflections imagining the type of environments this will be installed

into and productivity kind of balancing that with entertainment and nighttime viewing Netflix and so

forth I presume they they measured those things when making this decision this is the second

version of this that I've looked at M7 looked different than this but it was ultimately the

same concept so you had this Samsung TV in there which is just like a bunch of TV you can just

start watching right now just included I don't even know what these deals are about so that's a

bonus you have a bunch of apps obviously as well everything that you're used to and would expect

to find is going to be in here, including Apple TV Plus. You've got Netflix, YouTube, Disney Plus

Prime Video, Spotify is in there. You have a full internet browser. There's Plex if you want to

stream content. Well, this is your typical smart TV stuff because this is a smart TV just in the

format of a monitor. So one of the benefits of having a TV slash monitor is you get this interface

that's pulled from the smart TVs, which allows you to really configure your picture profile and

your picture modes. There's a filmmaker mode on here and I've used this in the past on Samsung TVs

and what this does is it allows you to get a like a much more accurate not really oversaturated type

of image. So this could be useful for people that want to do certain productivity work. Let's try the

dynamic real quick. Well dynamic is going to boost things up and increase power consumption. Okay fine

We can do that for the purpose of this video. Now this is really important. You have a game mode which

obviously is going to reduce your input lag and turn off some of the post-processing that would

happen typically when you connect a video game system to this. Optimize your screen to improve

performance when using a gaming console. The auto function is only available on the supported device

and the screen may flicker when switching to game mode. If you've ever gamed on a display that has

a lot of input lag, it can be very irritating. This is going to alleviate that. So I could just go

ahead and turn this on or set it to auto, which is going to look for that HDMI input and then

switch back and forth. Oh, I got a whole like gamer UI that just came up. Show me FPS and HDR

response time settings. Extreme. And it also appears to have some custom pre-configured

preset for your image on games, but there's also specific ones for RPG, RTS, FPS, or sports. I mean

it is only a 60 hertz panel, but this stuff does still help when you're using a console. Still

a lot of the time 60 hertz is what you're connected to. So in that sense, if you put a

PlayStation or an Xbox into this thing, at least you can be assured that it will probably function

as well as whatever TV you currently connected to You might be gaming right now on say a 50 or a 65 with the same number of pixels This might even look a little bit better depending on your viewing distance Oh and then the other thing a simple game mode or dynamic mode or filmmaker mode is not enough

You can jump into expert settings and attack everything from brightness, contrast, sharpness, color, tint

This is all typical smart TV stuff, but it's nice to have. You can tinker as much as you want to tinker

There's nothing financial about this advisor. the speakers are it's good enough man for what it is the type of environment you're going to play

something like this if you want it to really bang and if you want some bass you're going to connect

something else to it to have it built in in a pinch you just need to like hook this thing up i've

been doing some tailgating this will be a really nice tailgate display in the van you slap it out

connect it to the hotspot on your phone all your apps the sporting events youtube whatever you want

to watch. It's very flexible like that. Any way that you want to use it. They got Mo's favorite

game, Ork Hunt. They got Kirk's Boom Machine, Ball-O-Matic for Will, Solitaire for Jack

oh Google Duo. Again, to be able to run it just off of your TV instead of having to connect any

type of separate device. So that's going to utilize this camera right here in your chatting. Let's go ahead and attempt to AirPlay to it. This is a configuration I think a lot of people

would use something like this. This is the new MacBook Pro, so you do have a full-size HDMI port

if you wanted to connect via a wire. With AirPlay built into it, you can do it wirelessly

and ditch the cable altogether. Right away, 32-inch Smart Monitor M8 for screen mirroring

Just gonna enter the code. I could just have a video that I'm watching or some work that I'm doing

that I just wanna see on a bigger display. You can see beautiful wireless mirroring

and very quick to get it going. So just a single click and working together beautifully

even though we're going cross brand, you'll love to see it. Well, the other thing I feel like I didn't demonstrate yet

is the height adjustability. This is quite a range actually. So we can go all the way up to there

We got a little bit of down tilt and a lot of up tilt. What we're looking at now is the camera on the smart monitor

And this is just a preview window to give you an idea of the difference between what you might have in your laptop

and what you're gonna get through this connection instead. So I'm gonna switch over to the FaceTime HD camera

that's built into this MacBook Pro. I mean, the image is not anywhere near as nice

Plus the angle is not ideal. So I'll switch back to the slim fit camera

I can get a lot more in frame too. Plus it has the extra adjustability of the monitor itself

So the monitor can go up and then the camera has tilt on it

So depending on whatever might be the optimal angle, we can sort of figure that out

But I actually like the width also. You can have other items in frame if you want

If you get a little bit further back from the monitor, maybe I'm presenting something

or I have an object or something like that. It's just a little bit more flexibility

And then the last piece, if you're constantly using the webcam on your laptop

there's not an easy way from a hardware perspective to cover up that camera the rest of the time

that you're using the computer. So if you're very privacy focused, then this also has the advantage

of having the cap, which I mentioned earlier, that you can just slide over the top

It has some obvious advantages over your built-in laptop webcam. For me, this display is about versatility

It's about doing more things than your typical monitor and doing it in a very slim form factor

For somebody who's gonna have one display to do all their stuff

this might be the most kind of convenient crossover because you're able to lean back

get a lean back experience with a remote control. and of course all of your streaming apps native

without the need to go into your computer and go to a website and like play a video

and then move away from it and then come back. So you're getting the whole TV experience

alongside a monitor experience and all kinds of wireless ways to interact as well

even across ecosystems and into the Mac realm through AirPlay as I showcased in the video

You're getting pass-through power over USB Type-C to charge your laptop up to 65 watts

You're also getting flexibility when it comes to the actual orientation of the display

We're getting a little bit of height adjustment. We're getting a little bit of tilt. We're getting a few colors to choose from

in order to suit the environment. We're getting a matte finish on it

so that if you use it in a well-lit area or a room with a window

you're not gonna have tremendous glare coming off of it. I think it's a cool design

I especially like this camera. I like anything with magnets. as I've told you in the past

but this is an area where magnets are being used where people would want to have removability

because you might not want this thing staring back at you all the time, even with the cap

So the ability to just reach up and clip the whole thing off when not in use

and have the most streamlined appearance, I think that's a bit of a breakthrough

And I think other monitor manufacturers are gonna try to copy this in some form or another

So there you have it. That is the Samsung M8 Smart Monitor One Monitor Solution slash Smart TV to rule them all