ARM Based HP Omnibook X 14 with Snapdragon X Elite Review - ARM on Windows is getting closer..

VIDEO INDEX:
00:00 - Intro
01:07 - Price
01:25 - AI Features
02:00 - Hardware
02:26 - Display
02:49 - Build Quality & Weight
03:14 - Webcam & Speakers
03:58 - Keyboard & Trackpad
04:33 - Ports
06:26 - Office Apps
07:21 - Battery Life
08:36 - Web Browsing & YouTube
10:02 - Speedometer Benchmark Test
10:34 - Video Editing
12:03 - x64 (Non ARM) Emulation
12:47 - Gaming: No Man's Sky
13:28 - Gaming: Red Dead Redemption 2
14:09 - Gaming: Doom Eternal
15:16 - 3DMark WildLife Benchmark
16:16 - Linux
17:23 - Conclusion

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[LonSeidman]

Many of you have asked about eGPUs - I did try to get one working on here but there are currently no drivers available (at least on the Nvidia side). The GPU was recognized in the device manager but I was not able to get it working.

[mavfan]

These ARM chips look great for the 95% of people (not your viewership necessarily) that just want a laptop that’ll last a lot longer than Intel and AMD for everyday use.

[keyboard_g]

An ok 300 nit display for a $700 machine. Unacceptable for a $1200 machines.

[BruhHowDidIGetHere]

The more I look at Windows 11 products. The more I consider going to Linux/Chrome OS.

[HarpaxA]

I was kinda hoping that ARM based will cost around ~$600, on par with $800~$1k Intel Core i5.

If the price is too close, people wil keep choosing x86/x64, unless they really need the battery.

[ralphmcmahan]

I have a ThinkPad coming with the same chipset. A new T14s something like $1900. Glad I didn't pay for it.

[beardymonger]

What a nice no nonsense review, well done!

[jatigre]

Great review and content. Very professional. Thanks!

[ccroy]

I wonder if WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) would run on it? Should be interesting times.

[wilko]

Someone already said it best. These are Windows Chromebooks. Way too overhyped. I'll wait for AMD and Intels' next releases.

[miserj]

Thank you for trying to get Linux on this.

[DimitrisChr]

Issue with these laptops is that performance varies greatly depending on what power profile Windows is running on. More disturbing is that those power profiles are not dynamic and have to be set by the user. So if the laptop was set to "efficiency", performance takes a huge hit. So for average users who don't mess with power profiles and just use the laptop as was set by the manufacturer the performance is not consistent with other laptops using the same chips.

[CommodoreFan]

Till I can get some decent Linux distro options, and models with upgradable RAM, then I'm going to avoid them, and stick with X86 Intel and AMD based machines.

[alivarfan]

Great video and thank you for trying the Linux

[ericB]

Lonball, my product came with one copilot that works for Delta and his copilot is Clippy.

[ShoelessJP]

I am a bit interested to see how the ARM on Windows thing develops, even as a Mac guy. I don't have a use case for one of these but I am interested to see how the ARM thing develops. Thanks for the video, Lon!

[MrNick]

I’m assuming that with the flaky behavior with thunderbolt that an external GPU is out of the question? Would be great for software dev and occasional gaming if they could figure that out.

[mannkeithc]

I am surprised about the USB4 connectivity issue, and like you say is probably a firmware issue. Since Microsoft updated the SQ3 arm-based Windows Dev Kit 2023 firmware to support the USB4 surface dock, I've been able to connect and use my TB3 and TB4 SSDs, though not at the full 40 Gbps. I run Ubuntu 22.04 on my arm PC using WSL2. That also supports graphics hardware acceleration. Many of the well-known Linux apps and games have already been cross compiled for arm64.

[YugendranN]

How's the linux support in this laptop? Would to love buy one of these ARM based laptops and install a supported linux distro..

[alexeiz]

Support for this CPU in the Linux kernel is promised in version 6.11 which is likely to be released close to the end of this year.