Brothers in ARMs: Windows on Snapdragon X Elite! Asus Vivobook S 15 2024 REVIEW.

Asus Vivobook S15 is... a MacBook Air with Windows and lots of AI!

[bmqww]

Gaming must not be the yardstick for comparision ... It appears apple has a true competitor here.... given the battery life and producitivity application apple needs to step it up or maybe do cost cuts in future when this platform gets more mature....

[denischiosa]

Like you mentioned, it's a good start. Cant wait to more affordable laptops with arm

[OiZoProduct]

This makes me want to buy an ARM based laptop! Awesome

[jonathanmardukas]

Excellent review and thank you for sharing! Well done

[AllTimeTech]

Will there be Linux/Debian/Fedora I hope before 2025 I cant wait for the battery life!

[dahlia]

I like the larger screen with 16x9 ratio. I don't like the color especially the color of the keys. I'm not in a hurry and I think I want to wait for Lunar Lake and whatever AMD had coming. I also like some older 32 bit Windows games and I haven't seen anyone review how they perform yet, but given how horribly they perform on Apple Silicon, I don't have much hope that Snapdragon will do better. I currently have a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro and it performs well ehough but since it's Intel it runs 32 bit games amazingly well. I get around 6 hours of battery out of it and the only reason I would consider ARM is if the battery life is truely a LOT better, but I don't trust battery life claims from manufacturers.

[FahadAhmadi]

I prefer waiting
1 - next Gen of Windows ARM, Qualcom Snapdragon X Gen2, Prism Emulator Gen 2
2 - New Intel and AMD Processors
3 - New Apple M4
Then I will decide

[neodidi]

This is a really good review.. It was done with an understanding of where Apple is as a trillion dollar company and where Qualcomm and Microsoft are.

It can be difficult integrating different things.. And for this performance for a start.. This is super amazing and exciting..
Can't wait to see what happens over time.. Hopefully Microsoft doesn't nuke windows with their desperation and bring back the new/bad curse.

Btw... Blender has an arm version..

[akin]

I like the new battery life, but Ryzen 8000s CPU laptops get nearly the same battery life and performance. Also, Ryzen 8000s CPU laptops get full access to X86 software (including gaming).

[gbwalther]

Rumor mill says that Adobe will be full on the snapdragon x elite system in July. Well, it is already July. What's the word from the trenches? Want some evidence with video editing and audio in the Adobe world, not just DaVinci Blackmagic. 😎😎

[martinspedding]

Apple only had the soc as a way of competing and now with snapdragon it looks like there is no reason to downgrade to macbooks.

[RobertDunn]

Honestly, I would skip the first generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops and wait for Zen 5 Strix Point or Intel Lunar Lake.

From what I've seen in benchmarks, you can get comparable performance on existing x86 chips (and the next generation will be even better) as well as battery life that is good enough for most people.

Trust me, I would love to see ARM chips succeed in the laptop space since they are more efficient, but the software and driver compatibility remain huge hurdles.

[erwinfeser]

It would be nice to know if it is easy to install GNU/Linux

[scientist_nick]

Wtf is this guy on about with the ports, thats plenty of ports.

[shubhamvyas]

Then why not you use arm version of blender.

[neilmontgomery]

I don't really care about high level gaming on a notebook. mobile games should be fine.

[retrogaminga]

you compare multicore scores of a 12 performance cores to apples m3 10 or 8 cores soc which has half efficiency cores... thats a joke. Only single core performance is really important and on this apple with M4 chip which will come this year to laptops will destroy x elite. All in all, Xelite is a-bit disappointment for me.