They’re Making me Pick a New Laptop - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Daily Driver Challenge Pt. 1

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Choosing the best Snapdragon X Elite laptop is incredibly difficult, so we look at all of them to decide which one to use for a month.

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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 - Intro
1:19 - G.Skill!
1:44 - Surface Laptop 7
3:40 - Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge
5:22 - Dell XPS 13 Plus
6:46 - Dell Inspiron 14 Plus
7:56 - HP Omnibook X
8:38 - Asus Vivobook S15
9:43 - Display Showdown
11:25 - Speaker Test
12:53 - Performance Quirks
13:51 - The Decision
15:59 - Grammarly!
16:42 - Outro

[SurlyYerby]

Microsoft can be mad at Alex if they want - but Alex's prior recommendation is why I bought a Surface Laptop 4 so hopefully they can see the value of appearing in these videos

[anshulsingh]

Now I want my trackpad to be of different color

[fukov]

The trouble with trying to compare laptop speakers is that they all sound like MY laptop speakers.

[ayuchanayuko]

In the sponsor segment, you failed the chance to make Linus wear a red wife beater and a black vest full of GSkill ram to cosplay Duke Nukem. With him holding the gold and silver RAM sticks like dual-wielding pistols while sitting on a chair.

_Trident Z5 Royals, hail to the king baby!_

[robindigital]

Tip for the team, vendors screw up the default installs. Even Office and Onedrive needed to be reinstalled with ARM version because native they were running x64

[lightcookie]

Thank you Linus for igniting the passion for computer hardware in me. Have been a viewer for over 10 years and now working at Google after graduating from engineering. I brought up LTT during my interview and my interviewer was wearing an LTT shirt and we bonded!

[TechTubeMedia]

Omnibook. A name from the 90s!
Qualcomm Snapdragon X seems to be mostly a battery play, but looking forward to the challenge results!

[fxarts]

man all of these seem great but also disappointing in their own ways. like the bad display, dark display, bad keyboard, bad speakers, ...
like the dell looks so great on paper, but that that keyboard, aliexpress touchbar and unreliable display.
Samsung or surface prob being the best out of this bunch

[OldestHouse]

6:46 so everybody's gonna ignore how linus is a ventriloquist?

[carbonium]

Since new RISC V mainboard for framework laptops is coming. I propose a more difficult chalange Linux on RISC V

[jbettcher]

If Microsoft wants a response to the M series Apple Macbooks, they could start with not making Windows an obnoxious ad filled piece of bloatware? Seems a lot easier than waiting for a new processor lineup. It's well within their power to do so.

[hedlund]

As a more-or-less voluntary member of the church of Emacs I find omitting the Escape quite the stupidly stupid move. Any keyboard without it is simply useless to me.

[mauromerconchini]

I would have liked to see the Lenovo option be a contender with the rest of them. Was curious what the team would say about that particular model, since it's the one I myself have been considering. Regardless, I'm looking forward to how this challenge is going to end up.

[MrMurl]

Given the new AMD chips and the Qualcomm arm chips things are looking up for windows. Great to see after a few years of suffering compared to Mac users

[Superfluous.]

I'm not an accountant either and I can't stand not having a keyboard without a numpad, simply because I worked with a cash register during college.
I can probably type numbers faster in numpad with 1 hand than I can type my name with both hands on the keyboard, and with less mistakes too. Using the number row on the keyboard just feels weird to me since then. That's how messed up it is.

[elliottdraudt]

Would be very interesting to see compatibility with very old non-game software.
I mean a lot of people never updated their Winamp after 2.95 released in 2003, or maybe they prefer that image viewer which hasn't seen an update since it got Vista compatibility. Or perhaps their job is heavily reliant on accessing an ancient Microsoft Access database with custom tools written in Delphi 5.
These are all tools that work just fine even on the latest x86 systems with Windows 11 just like they did on Windows 98 or XP back in the day, but how fares the emulation on ARM?
You might think this is a niche scenario only a few will ever encounter until you find yourself needing some ancient file extractor to un-ACEv1 a file or you're trying to extract an OG Xbox ISO with a tool from 2007. On Windows it's a matter of when you need the amazing software backwards compatibility, not if.

[HolgerNestmann]

Thank god no one picked the dell XPS. The should get no sale with the aweful decission to remove the esc key

[OwenYelland]

god i love dbrands marketing team. The fact the urls actually work properly made me laugh

[AthanImmortal]

Arm based PC + Mac OS = New breed of hackintoshes when? :D

[Sterdog]

I went with the Lenovo Yoga. One thing that's really strange about these laptops is that, other than Asus and Samsung who seem to be adding a premium to their Snapdragon laptops, there is so little difference in pricing that waiting for a sale matters. I got my 15" Lenovo Yoga with the 1 TB drive for the price of the base Dell with a slower chip, less storage, and a worse screen. Bottom line, don't buy the low end models for full price, wait for a sale because the premium models will be that price if not less because of the small price gap.