Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Buying Guide! What you need to know before shopping a Windows AI laptop!

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0:00 Windows AI Laptop Day!
2:35 Microsoft Surface Pro and Laptop
11:20 HP Omnibook X AI PC
15:45 Dell XPS 13 (Snapdragon)
18:05 Lenovo Yoga and Thinkpad
23:52 Asus Vivobook S 15
26:35 Acer Swift 14 AI
29:33 Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge
34:15 What Laptop do YOU like?

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[SomeGadgetGuy]

Huge thank you to my Patrons! They help keep the lights on, and they're really cool people. Please consider supporting on Patreon.com/somegadgetguy! This video started as a "react", but the more you look through manufacturer websites, you realize consumers are going to be confused by a lot of these offerings. Part buying guide, here are some thoughts on shopping a new ARM laptop!

[powerfultoa]

I really hope that Microsoft will be reallly committed to making ARM work after so many attempts. We really need a great competitor to the Apple M chips to have diverse competition

[extra]

Note: ONLY the surface pro has easily removable storage with a dedicated compartment. You can remove the SSD in the laptop but it voids warranty bc you must remove the entire bottom plate and replace it like other laptops

[djross]

The AC/DC line was classic, Juan! 😀😀 Great review as always...

[osheadavis]

Looking forward to see how the testing goes.

[mawash]

I wonder if Samsung has an exclusive on the top end Snapdragon chips because of their long relationship with the phones. Thanks for your video . super solid like always

[arainla]

At Dell World in Las Vegas last week I saw the Snapdragon Latitude 7000 series for business other than the XPS. By the way a great video for comparing the offerings from all these vendors!

[mvz]

Mini PCs with these chips are going to be awesome. Can't wait to get a low wattage server or NAS running on these chips.

[maxywolf]

I'd get either the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x or maybe wait to see what else is coming out in the near future.

[ZeDarkLord]

I hope Robo n Kala get their hands on the X Elite, and get to remake their 2 in 1. It'd be very interesting.

[aljosacebokli]

Awesome overview Juan, just what was needed!

This really sheds some light on my purchasing options, I love the starting prices, love the 16 gb ram default a bit less in all honesty but ok.

I'm currently using a surface pro 8 as my travel remote work device when I am visiting my family for extended periods of time. One of the issues I've been having with it is overheating and stuttering when running 2x 1440p screens with a real time video feed over Teamviewer. It doesn't happen all the time but when it does it's detrimental to my workflow.

So I've been on the lookout for replacement and decided to wait for the ARM chip lineup.

My only question right now is how capable the adreno GPU is and whether it will be able to tackle the above task without overheating/throttling as compared to my current option (and can it even run 2x 1440 p screens like the "regular" chips?), or would I still have to go and get something more traditional.

[BurntOrangeHorn]

As to the Samsung Edge, sometimes on the business site laptops can be more configurabie or upgraded.

[wlifting]

hi,
how did you get the discount on microsoft website pre order page? There is no discount showing on mine.

[TheAutumnNetwork]

Excited for the ARM chips, couldn't care less for AI. Hopefully there can be a way to minimize that AI mess as much as possible.

[onlinejfk]

Hi Juan -- thanks for a well done, informative overview of the Co-Pilot+PC initiative. One question I have is how are you logged into the Microsoft store to show 10% of the MSRPs. When I land onto the site as a regular guy, I see full price. Do you need to be a student, military, medical staff, etc to see the discounts?

[abhayverma]

Hi Juan, what about compatibility with existing windows applications and softwares?

[Miguel-Del]

I fell in love with the Asus Zephyrus G16 display at Best Buy. Will Asus put the x chip in that laptop? If not do you recommend one of these as an alternative? Thanks. I mainly care about the display brightness, resolution, refresh rate, and trackpad. Just for work, watching content, and web browsing.

[RobertDunn]

The fact that all the major laptop OEMs (and a few second-tier ones) have gotten on-board with Snapdragon X and that major apps like the Adobe suite, Chrome, Spotify, etc. are now available natively on ARM are all very good signs that bode well for the Windows on ARM platform's future.

Even though I wish they would have discussed the Prism emulator layer in greater detail, I think now that adequate native support + great emulation can make these laptops reach that magical "good enough" figure that makes them a viable option for most consumers who do their stuff in the browser.

There will still be edge cases where an x64 machine is needed (like when you need special drivers that are not available on ARM), but other than that, we can all look forward to not only quieter, thinner and more powerful laptops but also seeing the x64 boys work harder to catch up.

[Goodmanperson]

I am hoping that with the recent release of LPCAMM2, we can finally start seeing removable RAM options on the next generation of these ARM laptops. It already addresses all of the problems with the SODIMM form-factor so there's literally no excuse now for manufacturers to continue with soldered RAM.

[FahadAhmadi]

great work, I think nest the comparison between the specs and the prices, then after the release of these laptops, there is a need for some benchmarks
we have now only one tablet which is from Microsoft. I prefer Surface pro and Asus Vivobook