Snapdragon X Elite Laptops

Review of the Snapdragon X Elite on the Asus Vivobook S15
Snapdragon X Elite Laptops versus Apple MacBook Air M3

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[DaveD]

These are WAY better than I thought they would be
ARM laptops are finally legit in the windows space

[ElAnikilador]

The fact that the battery life is on par with the macbook air 15 while the vivobook has a 120Hz screen and two fans is plain bonkers for a windows machine

[sydguitar]

It's crazy how just opening up YouTube on an Intel power laptop can have the fans running so this is a breath of fresh air

[tipoomaster]

10% performance hit through Prism emulation is actually really legit, they weren't lying when they said they were aiming at Rosetta 2+ class

[trashcanmac]

Where’s the “thumbs if you liked it, subs if you loved it”??

[AndrewEthanZeng]

Windows has been trying to build an ARM-based Windows PC for so long now. Seems like they've nailed performance, but at the end of the day it's about compatbility and app support that will make the Snapdragon X Elite a homerun!

[emcdonald]

I love how this is only Version 1. Imagine how Version 2 or 3 of the Snapdragon X-Elite may perform when the time arrives.

[techgroveusa]

I share your appreciation for the advances in performance and battery life. Let's hope for continuous development and app optimization for this new chip.

[stefanodoria]

Actually reviewing the device and almost not talking about copilot, thumbs up Dave!

[sitoudien]

An underwhelming improvement. Let's be honest. Most people are expecting a leap in magnitude of performance like apple's intel to M chips. It was mind blowing! We aren't there yet!

[assassingaming]

If Qualcomm makes a chip to complete with Core 3, Ryzen 3, Windows on Arm might actually become popular

[RealRameshBabu]

I think if they make thier GPU powerful enough, it'll be awesome to have this in hand held consoles

[dqieu]

ML engineer here. I’m excited for the pro chips. The removable RAM slot is a sign of low memory bandwidth. That’s important for containing big robust AI models. Energy efficiency plummets even with mediocre nVidia gpu for laptops. However, the chip can contain a 13B model, so there has to be a separate soldiered ram. Then, who wants to pay twice for the RAM?

[AntonBlaschuk]

"If you wanna go light, go bright!"
Dave2D, regarding light colored backlit keyboards

[shivshady]

OMG!!!! I have been waiting for your take on this🙂

[Savergn]

I preordered this model laptop from US Costco for $1299, but it includes 32GB of RAM.

[lgabss]

So, the hype was real. Glad to see that you liked, really excited for the future ARM based chips

[thepi]

Can't wait for either framework or tuxedo to make a device with this chip. Would be an interesting target to compile and test apps on. Linux has been working on arm for a long while, and a lot of apps already have arm builds because of the Raspberry Pi and other similar devices. Also interested in the NPU if something like ollama would be able to run LLMs on it.

[shApYT]

Needs more 3:2 laptops. There's only 2, Surface laptop and Framework.

[RexusSyafwanRS]

Dave literally just woke up from sleep and Asus decided to put Dave at a gunpoint to review their laptop