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Specs:
- 14" 1920 x 1200 FHD+ 60Hz OLED Display
- Snapdragon X Plus X1P 42 100 8-Core 3.4GHz Processor
- Qualcomm Adreno GPU Graphics
- 16GB LPDDR5X 8533MHz Memory
- 512GB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive
- Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3
- Backlit Chiclet Keyboard
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 2x Thunderbolt 4
- 1x USB 3.2 Type-A
- 1x HDMI 2.1
- 1x Audio Combo Jack
- 70Whr 3-Cell Li-ion battery
- Weight: 2.4-lbs
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Whoever is reading this, don't trust this random guy's opinion on Slickdeals. Linus Tech Tips did an entire video where 3 or 4 of them used a snapdragon laptop as their daily driver for a month. None of them had major issues, and the battery life was fantastic.
Personally, I'm an IT Director at a place that all of you would recognize if I name-dropped it. We have rolled out Dell Snapdragon laptops to about 10% of our workforce, with 0 complaints. And these are mostly tech illiterate people who are having no issues with them.
I have a faster snapdragon x elite and many, many apps do not behave as expected.
Beyond the terrible emulation and horrid battery life if you run apps that aren't ARM64, many common things that would run fine on integrated intel or amd graphics have major issues or no support on arm graphics, and end up running as software which makes CPU performance even worse and eat even more battery.
Unlike all other laptops on the market - even Macs - you can't really game on these either. There is no arm64 steam client and there is zero arm build support with steam. Games themselves are mostly unplayable from performance constraints.
I truly don't know who this laptop is for. As far as I know there isn't much in the way of Linux support either.
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I have a faster snapdragon x elite and many, many apps do not behave as expected.
Beyond the terrible emulation and horrid battery life if you run apps that aren't ARM64, many common things that would run fine on integrated intel or amd graphics have major issues or no support on arm graphics, and end up running as software which makes CPU performance even worse and eat even more battery.
Unlike all other laptops on the market - even Macs - you can't really game on these either. There is no arm64 steam client and there is zero arm build support with steam. Games themselves are mostly unplayable from performance constraints.
I truly don't know who this laptop is for. As far as I know there isn't much in the way of Linux support either.
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I have a faster snapdragon x elite and many, many apps do not behave as expected.
Beyond the terrible emulation and horrid battery life if you run apps that aren't ARM64, many common things that would run fine on integrated intel or amd graphics have major issues or no support on arm graphics, and end up running as software which makes CPU performance even worse and eat even more battery.
Unlike all other laptops on the market - even Macs - you can't really game on these either. There is no arm64 steam client and there is zero arm build support with steam. Games themselves are mostly unplayable from performance constraints.
I truly don't know who this laptop is for. As far as I know there isn't much in the way of Linux support either.
Whoever is reading this, don't trust this random guy's opinion on Slickdeals. Linus Tech Tips did an entire video where 3 or 4 of them used a snapdragon laptop as their daily driver for a month. None of them had major issues, and the battery life was fantastic.
Personally, I'm an IT Director at a place that all of you would recognize if I name-dropped it. We have rolled out Dell Snapdragon laptops to about 10% of our workforce, with 0 complaints. And these are mostly tech illiterate people who are having no issues with them.
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I have a faster snapdragon x elite and many, many apps do not behave as expected.
Beyond the terrible emulation and horrid battery life if you run apps that aren't ARM64, many common things that would run fine on integrated intel or amd graphics have major issues or no support on arm graphics, and end up running as software which makes CPU performance even worse and eat even more battery.
Unlike all other laptops on the market - even Macs - you can't really game on these either. There is no arm64 steam client and there is zero arm build support with steam. Games themselves are mostly unplayable from performance constraints.
I truly don't know who this laptop is for. As far as I know there isn't much in the way of Linux support either.
If you "truly don't know who this is for", then you're just a snob.
Whoever is reading this, don't trust this random guy's opinion on Slickdeals. Linus Tech Tips did an entire video where 3 or 4 of them used a snapdragon laptop as their daily driver for a month. None of them had major issues, and the battery life was fantastic.
Personally, I'm an IT Director at a place that all of you would recognize if I name-dropped it. We have rolled out Dell Snapdragon laptops to about 10% of our workforce, with 0 complaints. And these are mostly tech illiterate people who are having no issues with them.
So the gotchas are no gaming though apparently there is a newer firmware coming. There is difficulty hooking to printers if you don't have arm drivers. I have them so no issue. Certain peripherals won't connect due to drivers.
Otherwise it's a great machine. It's 2.5 lbs lighter than a macbook air m4 model. Yeah the screen is 1080p but it's gorgeous OLED. It's plenty for work on the go. It does not get hot and it seems to run pretty well for general tasks. If you do somthing CPU intensive it does slow down a bit, not as fast as a equivalent M4 in that case.
While it does work with x86 programs the compatibility is hit and miss... If it runs it takes a while for it to start up on compatibility mode. It will run generally fine once running. However occasionally it won't run because of something that's broken. Libre office for arm64 doesn't seem to run ...go figure.
Also restoring for reinstall may not be compatible of you image the drive for backup. Mine just dumps the files to the nas but it depends on your setup.
I do run WSL and it runs fine. All my python programming stuff and Lazarus work fine
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