Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3::Is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite the laptop processor to watch for 2024?

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    4 months ago

    Not to mention that soon after these laptops are released, apple will get out m4. So windows is about 1.5 generations behind? Very impressive.

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      4 months ago

      There hasn’t been much development on the M Series since the M1. The M2 was essentially identical to the M1 with the clocks turned up and as a result worse thermals and battery life.

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        4 months ago

        Whatever, pc laptops are lagging behind so much its embarrassing. When I compare my 300 kilo lenovo Legion with a 30 kilo brick for charging that gets me an hour of work tops (strangely not an exaggeration) when disconnected to a thin 2 year or macbook m1 I just wanna cry.

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          4 months ago

          Why are you working on a gaming PC and expecting good battery life? It’s like using an macbook m1 and expecting good gaming performance.

          You can go get a lenovo yoga or carbon and get 10hrs easy. Its a ways off the 20hrs of an m1, but it’s far from the 1 hour of ridiculousness you’ll get with a giant legion while you use a text editor.

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            Because I need a graphics card for work. My expectations are that the laptop doesn’t run out of battery while I’m on a zoom call with a client. Too much for my lenovo.

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              4 months ago

              So an arm based laptop wouldn’t even work for you, no matter who sells it?

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                4 months ago

                A good one would. Maybe one with lots of shared ram. Maybe one with a few tricks that boost graphic work. Do you know any?

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          My Lenovo runs most of a day on battery, while running VM’s - it uses a USB C charger.

          And it’s 4 years old.

          Not sure what you’re doing with a modern laptop to kill a battery like that - I hammer on machines (and phones) , screen’s never off, crank performance up (fan runs a lot), always running VM’s with services (Syncthing, Resiliosync and PiHole mostly), or building VM’s.

          I’m impressed that you beat a machine harder than I do, lol.

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              4 months ago

              Ah, yea, design work is intensive. I kind of figured it was something along those lines.

              So you have a portable workstation. Those beasts are just what you describe - heavy, massive power supplies, etc. I carried one for a short time, asked if I could downgrade! While it was nice to have the power, it was just too damn heavy (and too big). Damn thing kept my legs warm, all year round.

              Anymore I don’t want anything bigger than 14", and even that is slightly larger than I prefer, because I usually have a monitor.

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          Performance:kg or Performance:Watt all PC laptops are complete trash compared to an M-series Macbook. However, that’s only relevant to some usecases. I generally don’t care how much my laptop weighs or how much power it uses. I just need it to have AMD hardware so Wayland works and to be able to play games decently when I’m not using it for productivity tasks.