Quote from: RobertJasiek on December 15, 2024, 09:53:11Quote from: GeorgeS on December 15, 2024, 02:16:38Why would anyone purchase a 'gimped' computer?
During its advertisement period, Snapdragon X seemed attractive because of long battery life. Meanwhile, x64 notebooks and hybrids have caught up on battery life, are less expensive for same performance and are without compatibility problems. Therefore, there is no reason any more for buying Snapdragon X notebooks or hybrids.
For Windows tablets, the situation still differs: there is hardly anything else than Surfaces. I considered a Snapdragon X Surface despite the compatibility problems and price but decided against it because Surfaces have further drawbacks: no matte screen, extremely expensive replacement batteries and no repairability (outside Microsoft's PR lies). Let us hope that CES 2025 brings many passively cooled x64 Windows tablets with long battery life and reasonable prices! Lunar Lake can do it if only the manufacturers apply it properly.
Then, there will be no reason whatsoever to buy a gimped, excessively expensive Snapdragon X device with nothing but compatibility problems.
All of this 👆
And I would add another thing - there was no such epic amount of over-promise and under-deliver as with Qualcomm and their X Elite chips. All that nonsense was coming directly from their own CEO during multiple live streams where he was talking, so it was not
lost in translation; nonsense such as claiming how their X Elite CPU is the most powerful CPU on the market, more powerful than Apple M3, anything by Intel and AMD, and even stronger than, I'll quote him now,
"the best of the best that you can find in desktops - the i9 14900K".
Then they, including him, kept parroting how their iGPU is the strongest iGPU to ever see the market, that gaming is not an issue because THOUSANDS of games were tested and they all run equally good or better than on x86. Then they kept spamming that link where games are really tested but when you saw which games are in question it was really funny to see what was under the category of flawless experience (browser games, random Microsoft Store games like Candy Crush etc.).
They, including him, didn't stop even there, no, no, they kept repeating how compatibility with legacy hardware is impeccable due to their close relationship with Microsoft where they ensured how everything will work, you guessed it, flawlessly and even better than than with
"legacy chips" (Qualcomm's CEO can't stop himself from calling x86 "legacy"). Not just that, it will be better!
All of that by having
multiple full workdays on a single charge, lol.
Just to flop in all regards including that "multi-all-day-workday battery life" claim.
I'm not exaggerating, I'm not imagining things, it is all on Snapdragon's official YouTube channel so you can take a look. Good video to start with that touches just a part of what I said above, all with extremely vivid imagination from Qualcomm guys:
Snapdragon Computex 2024 Keynote: The PC RebornTl; dr - the chips are quite decent, no doubts there. But it's difficult to take them seriously after they didn't deliver a single promise of their own, starting with
"impeccable compatibility with legacy hardware".
Edit: I forgot to link this one full of gold, especially the part where the guy is demonstrating how good the gaming is while the game on screen is stuttering like hell to full-freeze of literally ZERO fps:
Qualcomm X Elite Laptops at Computex 2024, with Davinci Resolve, Chrome, ecosystem, performance
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