Surface Laptop 7 X Elite Honest Review after 2 Weeks!
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Why do you didn't test a laptop with Ryzen 7 8840HS or Ryzen 7 8840U Laptop???? Everybody knows that intel suffers from excessive heat and battery drain issues
Finally Microsoft figured out laptops.
Don't hold your breath
Fortunally there are a LOT of other brands that makes very good to excellent Laptops for Windows !
Surface Pro 11 is great.
Now they need to figure out windows ...
Microsoft didn’t figure out laptops… Apple did. This is mostly a copy and paste job of a MacBook.
That macbook battery comparison is unfair, apples battery reduction is not even, it slows down the percentage reduction during the initial drain and reduces battery faster when it reaches lower percentages. So basically they are tricking the user to think that macbooks have better battery life. If you let it completely run out of juice, you can see both drain out almost equally.
That's not an apple thing, that's how batteries work
I actually use a Macbook, unlike many who post negative comments about Apple stuff, and that what you say is absolute nonsense. If anything, it is the reverse, and devices like Samsung smartphones lose their last 10% twice as fast as an iPhone.
@@ahaimes6320are we taling about laptops?
Unfair for what? Apple deceiving the users with fake battery drainage numbers? Dumb f
They do the same with iphones, Mr whosetheboss also pointed that out
User serviceable SSD, Apple are you listening?
If you don't like it, don't buy it.. it's easy.. are you crying about the cars with just 2 doors too becsuse you are prefering the cars with 4 doors? Just ignore that what you don't like.. 99% of the world doesn't even care how their machine work, or looks from inside.. (also almost the same 99% can't even install their own driver for a new hardware without help.. so they arenon that technology level..)
@@TamasKiss-yk4st Why so triggered Applw sheep? lmao GFY
This!
@@TamasKiss-yk4st lmao such an apologist. You dont need to know how to put an extra ssd or replace an existing one to know that you will need more storage. Even if apple had an option to get it replaced or expanded at apple stores it would have been fine. But it would hurt its business models. And the ssd and ram pricing makes no sense, and neither is the ssd the fastest on the market.
If you got facts then state them here, else dont whine when you cant put forth an argument
@@TamasKiss-yk4st it's not about 4 doors or 2 doors. cars and laptop were different. even phone and laptops were different. laptop is a workload machine. supposed to get you something or earn something. the way u saying it prove that u don't even understand what is a laptop, and u never use laptop for working.
That one is my favorite out of the X Elite bunch.
Hey @AZisk love your last video, any chance of doing an upgrade video with various SSDs and speed tests?
@@magnetsandmushroomsthanks! definitely coming soon
This guy is my favorite reviewer ❤
@Azisk Great last video about the battery performance and efficiency. Hope the Surface Pro 11 (tablet) will be reviewed sometime too!
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Hey @MaxTechOfficial. We're so thrilled that you're a fan of the Sensel-powered haptic touchpad!
You guys are the BEST! Thank you for saving Windows laptop trackpads. Now if only every Windows laptop will have your trackpad instead of those crappy diving board trackpads..
Qualcomm and Microsoft have done amazing work with ARM CPUs. I am excited to see them join the effort to bring a killer 16-inch laptop with a bigger battery and an option with 8 cores and a higher clock.
Unexcited until they fix compability issues and drivers for external devices.
The launch price was absurdly stupid. They compared Apple to justify all OEMs the exuberant price. But it doesn't have the encoders or accelerators of the M series.
Plus, MacOs have always had a premium price, and Apple has Metal. On the GPU side, Apple regarless of what chip configuration, it always has the best software acceleration per silicon. But on Windows, it's Nvidia monopoly CUDA, so you get very bad performance just by that CUDA graphics framework locked to Nvidia.
Apple is just in another league, that's why you will always hear it's an ecosystem. Talking down CUDA is overdue. Hopefully, in the upcoming years, something happens in that regard.
@@MrPtheManAre you implying that Apple silicon can compete with a dedicated Nvidia GPU laptop?
@JustifyJustin Nope never did, I said clearly, referring to software framework acceleration. Metal is one Apple, and CUDA is another one, Nvidia. Software acceleration is everything, and believe or not, Metal is superb well optimized for M silicon. Hence the comment best software performace per silicon. M3 Max depending on the benchmark, is a 4070 or a 4080 competitor while using less energy.
But again, consider the form factor of the 4080 or 4090 and energy consumption. You can't fit it in a laptop or a case equivalent to a Mac Studio.
The number one reason that mostly pro consumers avoid AMD gpus is CUDA, the lack of it. Again, it's a Windows monopoly.
If you compare the 4090 as in Mount Everest size vs. Qualcomm integrated GPU, the X Elite GPU. it's not even an ant. You need the most powerful microscope to see the X Elite chip to compare it to Nvidia.
Even if they try to improve their Graphics, CUDA is a roadblock.
The only way I see this monopoly ending is by MS doing something about it and blocking CUDA. Idk Apple calls it's framework Metal, maybe if they do Wental? 🤣
But it's never happining, the only ones that can leverage this issue are AMD and Intel, by trying an open standard.
Qualcomm fanboys, consider the product overpriced, and the big OEMS, including Qualcomm, wanted to push the price as an Apple product. It's not, only the CPU part and it has compability issues, and let's not talk about driver compability for external devices, that s*&t is broken.
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It is so refreshing to have such a thorough and balanced review putting aside personal preferences.
I used to not touch my window screen but now I do. There's an incredible productivity if you're doing the same thing over and over again with touching screen combinations with your mouse! Let's say I'm popping out articles like crazy and I have to tap the button over and over again while moving the mouse from here to there, I keep one hand with the finger right where the button will appear, move around the mouse and click that other part, and I just keep rapid firing this process. Way faster than moving the mouse back and forth!
It maybe faster, but I suspect 99.9% of people will not care as either they do not do that, or the extra micro-second saved is not going to change their life.
It's all a matter of perspectives...
DaVinci Resolve for Windows on ARM is still in Beta. Reviewers REALLY should be saying this in reviews. It's not finished software, yet.
Yeah he never mentioned it. Davinci is still in Beta
I've had mine for a few days - I use Windows and Macbooks. A couple things I hope they fix quickly:
1. scrolling on the trackpad isn't smooth, it only scrolls a small amount before needing more input - there's no way to flick the trackpad and quickly scroll.
2. Teams doesn't work properly on it - the web app doesn't detect my speakers, still uses them to play sound, but drops calls regularly. The desktop app doesn't detect the microphone at all.
i can verify trackpad scrolling is not smooth, it does stutters and i tried a few things but still it is not like mac. Haptics is great, best in any windows laptops available today.
Disable adaptive refresh and set to fix 60 or 120 and try edge. On top, there is no options to change scrolling speed in settings app. MS need to enable that as they control trackpad end to end on surface devices
I agree, Its almost like they made it stop quickly when scrolling to show off how smooth the screen it and to force it to "feel" more responsive. Like some android companies do. As far as teams, we don't use it, but that is kinda funny that Microsoft makes that software and they couldn't get it right for launch. I hope they fix it soon!
Does enabling smooth scrolling on edge://flags change anything?
@@MaxTechOfficial i prefer to use default settings to maximize battery. A normal user will not mess with settings etc. they will use what is set by MS from factory. touchscreen scrolling is smooth and it should be for a 120hz display.
@@nsns1996 Very happy to hear that you like the Sensel-powered haptics! FYI, since the rest of the touchpad is Microsoft's design, we don't impact the scrolling.
I played with this laptop at Best Buy this afternoon and it was really nice. I need to upgrade my wife’s 6 year old LG gram and this might be the winner
The Samsung x Elite is so slow because there is a hidden power profile that you can change in the terminal
only some brands not all of them
Still struggles to stay cool and quiet on the stock settings and changing the power profile makes it even worst
@@Jushwa, that is a reason why it is hidden, lol
We've tested it. Check out our SKU comparison video.
Is Surface Pro vs Ipad Pro M4 video on your plans ? :)
I moved to a Macbook Air M1 in 2021 having always been a windows user. My last laptop was a Dell XPS 13 4K which was terrible! Always overheating. I had the M1 3 years but didn't get on with MacOS. I run Windows on it via Parallels and have to say Windows was faster on my M1 that it was on my Dell XPS!
I just got rid of my Air M1 as it was getting old. Actually got a really good price for it, more than I was expecting but it was the topped out version.
Having seen this new Surface Laptops, they look likes Macs, and now have the speed and battery.....I think this is my next laptop! 😁
I wish they could also had an option of NVidia graphics. Of course this would negate any battery life improvements, but it would be a solid gaming option for those who needs it.
I am very happy to see that computer brands that makes computers for Windows OS have a tapered design !
Wish they had OLEDs.
Me too.
Same, I was pretty into getting one until I saw that. I went with the Samsung instead. The screen is top notch
Other brands have OLED laptops for Windows
You don’t want oled for reading text for hours. Ips has less flicker and the black borders around the pixels are much less. If you’re going to get an oled, get a low res oled
@@18yearsoldnot Nope
Great video Max. 100% agree
Want it's performance to get even closer to a Mac 3 - buy a two fan bottom/base laptop cooler - the performance increase is noticeable in the CPUZ stress tests - got 10% increase.
Meanwhile, I'm waiting for the 15th Gen Intel chips 💀
Right. You can get a base version, upgrade later with a fast 2 To or 4 To SSD and you have a beast for decent price.
Any plans on doing a Surface pro vs iPad pro m4 comparison?
I owned an earlier Surface Pro (5) ended up selling it for an iPad Pro, ended up selling the iPad Pro because it was awful for pro work tasks, ended up back on Surface Pro 11 and I'm loving it. iPad Pro was really good for consumption tasks and drawing, but I had to RDP into my office windows computer to actually get work done on it..
There is no comparison, the Surface Pro has a full desktop OS, expandable SSD (and until it was x86 even eGPU support). So, everything is possible. With the iPad Pro everything the opposite and has LOTS of limitations (due to Apple usual limitations, extremely increased with the mobile OS).
As I said tons of times, full keyboard/mouse/desktop apps compatibility would be needed to make the iPad Pro worth the money and the hardware it has. Until then, unless you really need and have the apps on iPadOS (pencil/touchscreen), I would look elsewhere.
There reason why the standard iPhone and iPad have 60 Hz it’s just to bother you and make you buy the Pro even if you “just want an iPhone/ iPad”. They know that, if the iPad/iPhone had a 90/120 Hz screen, few would buy the Pro. I did the opposite, I bought a Samsung Tab and now have for the iPad Air’s price a much better overall tablet.
@@ricarmig In theory the ARM pro could also support an eGPU, but it depends on AMD/Nvidia releasing driver support for ARM64. In theory even Qualcomm could make an eGPU solution.
In which mode, did you try the battery test? Recommended mode or best performance? It changes things
Most people use default balanced mode as they believe that in 2024, the system OS will optimise the chips with whatever you are doing. However, he used performance modes in both Samsung and Windows settings. If you keep it on that 24/7, battery life halves (watching media is 14 watts versus 7 watts on balanced mode).
Thank you this fair and detailed review. What would you suggest that I should buy for music and video editing works? I really need a machine that can run few heavy softwares effortlessly. Thank you once again. 🙏
I honestly forgot, that... Microsoft was my first desktop (ik this is a laptop review but still same brand) and I felt some nostalgia from remembering this (from Purble Place to Bookworm Adventures to Mushroom Age)
it's kinda crazy how well m1 mba is currently priced at aussie $1097 which is essentially $699
I tested it out at Best Buy and the scrolling seemed a bit fucked. Is there a fix for this?
Ghosting or something else?
@@shrimpgordita The inertia was all wrong and it was a bit jittery at times. I tried the MacBooks there at they didn't seem to have either issue.
Yes, missed by many, but this is an issue. Hopefully only a bug, not cheap display hardware.
Laptop is amazing and better choice than M chips with their crazy memory prices. But having Mac OS experience it is impossible that I would go back to Windows nonsense. Even before I got m1 air I was using Linux.
But that crazy memory price even exists on another area, and you don't even care.. because the SSD also more expensive compare to the HDD.. and just the basic M4 have 120GB/s transfer speed, which not even a dual channel DDR5 laptop have (not to mention not too much proper dual channel DDR5 laptop.. because you need 2 of the same RAM stick for that, to avoid the unefficient work when the different latency and response time just slow down the other memory too..)
So if you conpare the basic DDR5 speed, with moderate clock speed (so not high end,because those drain too much power and generate too much heat too..) than it's about a 30-40GB/s vs 120GB/s.. (or even 400GB/s in M3 Max laptops..), and that 3-4x speed difference basicaly is the same like the early SSD had, 150MB/s HDD vs 550MB/s (SATA3) SSD.. and even that SSD was more expensive like HDD.. so why do you expect the same price here? The faster technology was always more expensive..
@@TamasKiss-yk4st Apple tax on those upgrades is crazy and its not even about all tech. Most Windows laptops competing with the Macs have much faster storage. Don't know why you take DDR5 memory bandwidth as 40GB/s when most laptops nowadays support at least dual channel memory so it is 80GB/s vs 120GB/s actually. And this 120GB/s or 400 in the M3 Max is shared by the GPU as well, and the RTX GPUs can have a memory bandwidth of 1080GB/s so there's that.
@@TamasKiss-yk4st How ? First of all ddr5 rams are inherently dual channel and no, they are definitely not 30-40gbps, that's like ddr4 levels of bandwidth and even if you somehow managed to believe the bs marketing apple uses to basically rob peoples money, how can you possibly defend charging 200$ for 512gb's of frankly pretty basic storage at this day and age ?
2nd gen of snapdragon will be absolutely amazing.
The key issues are still native software support for applications and devices, blue tooth and usb devices. My 8 years old all in one printer/scanner only has driver for window 7/8/10, does not work with ARM + windows . I don’t want to buy a new printer as it is still in perfect condition.
I feel like the x86 era is on the cliff edge
I thought the surface laptop 6 has an anti glare coating. I don’t know why they removed it on the 7.
Thank you Max and team for the honest excellent and complete coverage since day1 of the launch 🙏🏻👏👏👏
Do these new ARM laptops handle ram and swap any differently? Or do you still need to brute force ram?
I’ve been holding out for M4 or M5 based Macs because I wanted more p-cores than the current MacBook mix but Apple is seems to prefer the efficiency route and appear to be scaling back.
Will you test another Snapdragon X laptops?
I heard that Qualcomm updated the graphics driver. Can you compare it with this version?
I don't think it has been rolled out properly yet. I'll certainly try it on my Surface when it drops.
If my M1 Air ever dies or feels slow, I might get one of these! Has anyone installed Linux on one yet?
You can tell he understands codecs because he uses AV1
i'll wait to see what framework does.
Max, I got Lenovo 7x. Unreal!!!!
would you recommend the Snapdragon X Plus for the 13inch Surface 7 Laptop for light work instead of the X Elite?
Does the snapdragon processor handle x64 software? A lot of engineers are probably wondering the same, like if can handle software like Solidworks. That makes me hesitant to get a new ARM chip laptop.
With these new Snapdragon X chips major case is the TDP. Laptops with lower SKU but higher TDP will be much more powerfull. So if someone wants to buy these laptops they should look up that information.
are you going to do some SP11 tests? i want a new surface pro instead of my Sp6, but i dont want a laptop, i want Pro. so i want to know what to expect
Same here. SP 11 looks awesome, especially with the OLED screen. I've been a pro user since the SP3.
I love my m1 MBA, however, I might pick one of these up just for the simple fact of 16gb ram and swappable SSD. That’s an incredible value proposition as the video states. All my work is done via salesforce, Acrobat, and Office suite. It’s almost a no brainer to be able to get the additional benefits.
I am pretty sure Windows on ARM will get way more optimised in the coming days along with more apps...seeing the rate of optimisation going on today.....
Super excited about the Qualcomm gou update too
Why you hiding the shot that shows Microsoft still using their proprietary connector?
Could You Compare The Surface 7 With Lenovo slim 7 x, Which one is BETTER?
I went to Best Buy yesterday and looked closely at both. The SL7 feels much more premium with it's metal design, it but feels significantly heavier. The screen on the S7x is much nicer, but the 16:10 aspect ratio is a big letdown. The SL7's 3:2 aspect ratio makes content feel much less cramped. I thinik all laptops under 15 inches should use 3:2. The SL7's trackpad is much better, but I preferred the S7x's keyboard. it has better travel. Iwould probably buy the $1000 base model SL7, and then upgraded the SSD. My only hesitation is the SL7 has a bit of blurring when scrolling around, and the value is so much worse than the S7x.
Dont know what WIndows laptops you have used. But this is midrange at best.
hope to have mine soon 💛
next do snapdragon x elite laptop v maxed out m3 max 16 inch macbook pro
I've had this laptop for 2 days now. The only downside for me is the pixel response time. There is ghosting. I am surprised no one has mentioned this in their reviews...I confirmed it wasn't just my computer by looking at demo models at Best Buy. Anyway, even though its 120Hz the ghosting really takes away from the display feeling sharp and quick. Otherwise it is an incredible machine, even without an OLED.
Can it use EGPU???
No it can not, no drivers, and if you do anything with graphics especially gaming you will be very disappointed. Even Linux x86 currently has better game compatibility then ARM as a whole under Proton right now including vs Apple. ARM support by dev's is slowly gaining traction, but is not their yet. Printer drivers are also surprisingly bad on Windows on ARM right now too for some reason from what I have seen in reviews. If you need to do anything with graphics, your better off getting a ZenBook OLED or something with Thunderbolt with eGPU support. Or one with a dedicated graphic chip. Many laptops have integrated RTX/AMD graphics cards under $1000, though you will not be getting that 10Hr battery life!
Thoughts on the durably of the floating display?
Cualcomm is expected to have a gpu adreno firmware bt sept. Im sure that there will be more firmware and software upgrades in the near future. This will make these computers a major headache to Apple, Intel and amd.
Agree
I can't say much about this, but yes there is firmware coming, that will fix and improve some things, but it won't magically give it more raw performance.
@@MaxTechOfficialthere are 3.8-4.2 TFLOP there and ATM games are definitely not delivering them. As soon as drivers get optimized and specially games support directly this GPU/ARM, I expect the FPS to improve at least 30-50%. Back in the day of the M1, I had apps that were rather slow and after the optimization, they were still smooth.
One tiny little grip with the surface laptops. The colors are sky specific.
The 999 model is only in silver
The models with 32 and 64 gb ram are only in black
Don't be a fan boy just be a boy or girl ~ Elon Jobs
and NONE of these reviews with X elite matter until we see that these machines last 3-4 and still work perfectly after. Like my M1 Max and M1 Air macbooks. And how long security support REALLY lasts.
I was hoping you would comment on windows on arm. How is the emulation? If terrible, those benchmarks mean nothing.
But the Asus Vivobook with Qualcomm Snapdragon X-Elite are a much better buy ! In Europe Microsoft Surface is too expensive !
This is a non Macbook product video, but you mentioned "Macbook" more than the actual product. You are not pretending you are paid for by Apple. LMAO.
This mans standards are low. He is always comparing to a MacBook.
We don't know Windows run terribly until this laptop exist!
I hope this channel never ends and keeps spreading happiness❤❤
Amazing review ! Loved the new X Elite laptops
Hey can we run meta trader 5 in this laptop
Microsoft cooking with these
A real "mac fanboi" would never touch anything that runs windblows. No matter what.
Love to see all these reviewers loving the Surface Laptop ditch their Intel, AMD and Macs and use the Surface Laptop 7 for the next year and see how it is.
Do the surface 15 speakers sound better than the 13?
NO laptops sounds good ! Use a bluetooth speaker, fx JBL.
We haven't tested that one, unfortunately, but If I had to guess, they probably use the same speakers. I could be wrong but for most windows laptops, unlike Apple, the larger ones use the same speakers as the smaller models.
@@JohnCross-rz5uq You must not have heard 16" MacBook Pro speakers..
@@MaxTechOfficial I never use any laptop for music, I am a former Hi-Fi nerd, so EVERY laptop sounds like s... ! Only REAL speakers sound good ! Btw, stupid to make comparison of laptops on video, it have to be irl.
@@JohnCross-rz5uq just because you are a HiFi nerd and need big mean speakers, it doesn’t mean a laptop cannot deliver a great sound for >95% of the population. And a hifi nerd that chooses JBL…
I want a mature snapdragon chips in updated surface studio. If it comes out, I'm sold 😍
Finally going to upgrade my surface laptop 2
Thanks for the review Max
The problem is the software support as of now. I use both windows and macs, my literal problem with windows, is windows itself. I have a ryzen 7 and rtx, some of the software i use is even causing bsod. Not unlike with my macbook pro m1 pro base 14”, i even bought this on launch, not even a single crash or so. But all my gaming is on windows of course hehe.
Can you name your software?Are you using pirated software and games ?
I also faced crashes in windows but once I started using genuine copies there are no crashes in the last 2 years.
@@logohub1234 i am using genuine adobe, i use cloud apps plan. Main crashes that I experienced were illustrator and premiere. Also games like warzone, apex. But these games I experienced the crash last month especially on the first update on its season.
@@logohub1234 there is no logical correlation between piracy and system instability, if you were experiencing crashes you probably accidentally downloaded malware in some of the "pirated" software
@@firestormjupiter yes there is co relation I am living example of it who has used both pirated and genuine software. In pirated software they repackage the application launch using some cracking and patching techniques. That's why those softwares crash sometime . I used cracked photoshop,illustrator and many more pirated games many times windows crashed with blue screen and hated windows . Then after that I started using genuine softwares and games downloaded from stream and epic store . I didn't face any crash in last 2 years. Not only that my organisation is also using windows laptop no crash of windows since windows 10 in my company. so it really depends on the application you used and the way it was cracked and patched
Apart from my Mac mini M1 (bought when released), I only have W10/W11 computers (mine, family and at work) and I can’t remember when I had the last BSOD. And I even use an eGPU. And no, I don’t use pirated software, just paid / free software or games. If you have BSODs, maybe you have either a faulty hardware (RAM maybe?) or you are using some strange software…
idk why but i like the NCS music on Surface better than Macbook
How can you say that sounds the same? The MacBook Air totally crushed it in sound quality.
I want to see a Linux on X Elite review.
Here's my review of the surface laptop 7 15: bought two units and neither could stay reliably connected to wifi. Returned both. Consider yourself warned. Could not stay connected for more than 5 minutes.
Stabalization ? is that stabilization while stabbing someone ? xD
Thank you for accepting that you are a fanboy 😊😊😊😊
Wish it had the OLED screen from the Galaxy Edge
The replaceable SSD guarantees that the laptop could still be repaired in 10 years (like old Macbooks) and not become electronic waste. You can just use a new battery and a new SSD to boot it up again.
I would not want to keep a 10-year-old laptop for my main driver, but it is easy to boot macOS from an external drive if it dies and then use it as a desktop. Runs super fast with no noticeable loss in performance.
@@ahaimes6320Yeah but what if the SSD of your Macbook dies? Then you have a piece of junk that cant be repaired. Thats the awesome thing about SSD being replaceable.
In the UK, the Surface Laptop 15-inch with 32GB of RAM is £2150, without an OLED or miniLED display and a GPU found in sub-£800 laptops, so it is a tough buy. The 13-inch does not have a 32GB option. Hard to recommend. I would wait 3-6 months as this will face AMD, M4 and Intel 2024 releases soon, and that should make these less desirable as they get stomped all over. Could see 50% off for a secondhand one by then. With no takers, I already see £350 off a new Galaxy Book4Edge 14-inch (sealed) on eBay.
It's ridiculous how all the reviewers are falling over backwards to give these new chips a great review. Had a new MacBook performed so poorly in real world graphics tests, the Macs would be ridiculed as another "Apple just can't keep up." The real summary should be....."these are fine, but they are at least 2 generations behind Apple!" Talk about being "PC".....as in politically correct!
love it but its trying to hard to be a macbook
ditch the wedge shape and use that space for a bigger battery
Will switch as soon as they offer gpu performance that make them usable for 3D and Unreal Engine. And when Recall is definitely cancelled. I hate working on my Intel /RTX Lenovo but this first generation of ARM is not ready to replace it. BTW, 90% of my work I do on my Silicon Mac and enjoy it a lot.
I think until we start seeing a lot more Windows apps that works specifically with the hardware registers of the Qualcomm X Elite SoC, then the advantages of this SoC is still kind of lost.
I prefer million times M3 only for the batery life ...
PLEASE review the new Dell XPS w/ the X Elite processor. I wonder if it will fix the problems that old XPS laptops had and make the XPS finally worth it.
We've been waiting for it to arrive...
Problem is that these devices are predominately ordered by enterprise and as soon as the next generation AMD and Intel chips land in a few months, they will be ordering those devices, simply because they are already compatible with software in their fleets - Snapdragon is unfortunately dead on Arrival.
Well, I think people should give Apple credit for pushing forward the ARM architecture, ARM Windows is nothing new but no one really paying attention to it until Apple Silicon released in 2020. It is good to see now Qualcomm and other manufacture also "borrow" the same concept for the PC laptop, but I will be really feeling disgusted to see the next Samsung marketing campaign to blast Apple for not doing something like a low hanging fruit improvement and call themselves have way better innovation for providing the "new" tech with user self-upgradable SSD, etc.
Considering this is first gen and it was actually made for server use initially, 2nd gen will probably be better than m4. Only speed breaker will be windows probably.
Snapdragon X Plus has comparable battery life. Important because many people just don't need the X Elite.
This could mean..Apple could make the Macbook Airs better in the next iteration..hopefully.
What's the use of getting it until proper AI comes to it
Every Qualcomm is a POS there is no good snapdrago.
I have some idea why creators are pushing arm, probably to inspire competition, but X elite is a lie.
it doesn't come close to this year's bottom Apple CPU, it barely beats last year's bottom apple CPU, and even last year's worst Apple CPU beats the GPU on the Qualcomm POS.
X doesn't beat last year's x86, and this year's x86 is more efficient, beating the best Qualcomm POS when set to draw the same amount of power.
On top of all of that it's exponentially overpriced, I can buy a far better laptop, better CPU, 40 gigs of RAM, 1 TB SSD, 800 dollars.
16 gigs of RAM was too little to years ago, this year bass can configuration needs to be 32 gigs unless it's an inexpensive low-end laptop
My predictions. Optimized apps will come very slowly because no one is buying these laptops. Why would developers put in the effort? This has been a huge letdown. I was really hoping the X Elite could give us a long running gaming laptop to rival the AMD chips. This is Microsoft. Should have known they'd screw this up.
After my surface book 2 CPU died I'm hesitant on Microsoft now . I'm more into Samsung ecosystem for upgrade