Snapdragon X Elite DESTROYS Intel Lunar Lake and AMD Laptops!!!

Reacting to the Snapdragon Summit Keynote, I had some performance tests to share on my Surface Laptop.
Maybe it's just nice to have choices in the market?

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[SomeGadgetGuy]

I hate this title. YOU hate this title. I dont want to do stupid faces in my thumbnails. If we could support and share chill videos with titles that just told you what was in the video, we'd ALL be a lot happier. Unfortunately, if I dont do stuff like this you'll probably NEVER see my videos. Help a techie out, and share the videos you like, instead of sharing lazy outrage bait. Maybe we can be the change we want to see in the world...

[orangeyellow-mepz]

Why can't there be more people like Juan? For some people its difficult to understand why a mobile processor is necessary. They point and go, "its not as fast as my core i9", dude, that thing won't last more than 3 hours off the charger while hese new mobile chips from Mediatek and Qualcomm will go for the whole day and give you adequate power. Our netbooks are finally here even though they're well over a decade late. How is this not exciting?

[shrimpgordita]

I'm an ARM guy too. I own both a Yoga Slim 7x and a Zenbook S16. The Slim 7x runs cool and is equally snappy on battery as it is when plugged in. The S16 runs terribly on battery. When you unplug it, the screen turns on/off quickly and then Windows suddenly becomes choppy. Thats not to mention the insane heat the S16 kicks off. I watched a ton of reviews on the S16 before I bought it, and NONE of the tech reviewers pointed out the problem. Instead it was all benchmarks which dont translate into real world use.

[LaczPro]

It's funny how much I can hate Apple for some of their dumb practices... But the computers got (finally) something that changed the game for everyone. I've been telling my friends: Be prepared for when others catch up with ARM because it will also make AMD and Intel change. And that aged nicely!

[redbirdriot]

Cool to hear they're working on audio drivers, I just returned my Surface and decided to try out a Lunar Lake laptop partially because none of my music gear would work with it. Wish they had the drivers figured out before they launched; I get it's a small chunk of the population here but it's hard to give Snapdragon a chance when you aren't sure when (or if) something you want your computer to do will work.

But competition is a great thing, and I hope that Windows on ARM keeps on gaining steam.

[RobertBitzer]

Watching this on my Surface Pro X SQ2 from the couch! Love my AMD and Intel computers too, but I need that fanless portability... I'm hoping manufacturers start giving us more fanless ARM options. Meanwhile, where is the new Robo & Kala? Keep up the great work, Juan!

[isaac]

This looks so promising. I'm in the market for a new laptop, but it also feels like Windows on Arm just isn't there yet for me, since it still falls short for some of the things I'll need my laptop for (Davinci Resolve + Adobe stuff). Gonna get a Macbook for now, and hope that software for Windows on Arm is better supported by the next time I'm in the market for a new laptop.

[TheGrizz]

i still use that Honor V20 phone 2:48 from 2019.

[andremorrison]

I can't believe our political arena has gotten so outrageous that we are now having these kind of conversations.

[farishanafiah]

Would love to see how consumer Lunar Lake laptop compares against X Elite. ARM always have the advantage in battery life, particularly during standby, but x86 still has wider software compatibility.

[pneuma]

I was about to throw hands just for that title

[BMO_boy_G]

If only more apps and games supported arm.

[DScottMoore]

Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge owner here. Absolutely agree about the portability advantage of Snapdragon. I have an efficient flow to working on Windows 11, and although I own an M1 MacBook Pro, work is faster on the Samsung. Glad to see Windows and its apps improving!

[JoakimPersson]

Small thing, but because there’s a red line bottom left of the thumbnail, I thought for a second that I had watched some of the video. But then my neuron activated and now I’m here.

[gmosc]

Love your understanding of the zip compression while on battery. Typical you.

[rudymoralesjr]

My M1 MacBook Air (sans notch for the win) is so close to being the perfect laptop for me. But I simply cannot get used to MacOS after 2 years of trying to use it. If it had the option to run Windows *natively* at the same performance and endurance as when running MacOS, and having true thunderbolt ports with multi monitor support, then it'd be the perfect device.

It's sad it's taken this long for non-Apple devices to catch up, but am excited that I'll be able to get the "perfect" laptop of my dreams soon it seems. Now if only I liked W11...

[xmlthegreat]

I'm probably going to get a Thinkpad with the Elite for super cheap a year or so later.

[kakarot-cn]

Do the improvements to ARM compatibility on windows come to previous lower end ARM chips like the galaxy book go with the 7c gen 2 and 7c+ gen 3?

[mattytwotimess]

I'll just say my galaxy book edge with the x elite is the best laptop I've ever used. And for 799$ you honestly can't beat the quality and speed/efficiency for the price. Arm is finally not just viable but preferable for alot of use cases.

[guymontag]

I love my Galaxy Book 4 Edge for all the reasons you listed, though specifically targeting development rather than video editing. The fact that I can grab my laptop and reliably do a full day of intensive work without worrying about the battery or performance makes it a better device than any of my x86 chips for that use case. I still have x86 gaming machines that I rely on for that task, but those are the right tool for that job! I appreciate that not everyone can have multiple devices, but it's all about weighing what you need most and getting the right device for you.

The only thing I don't really like about my Galaxy Book is that Samsung has absolutely terrible driver support. My Thinkpad x13s got driver updates pretty regularly, but I don't think I have gotten a single driver update for the Galaxy Book, and I'm fairly certain that at least an updated GPU driver was released in June or July for X Elite other devices =/