My First Snapdragon X Elite Laptop - Watch BEFORE You Buy! [ft. CoPilot+ & Benchmarks] 

Hey Chaps! Would you buy a Snapdragon Laptop??

The live translation feature is next level. I'm native Spanish and what the girl said was very accurately translated. Crazy times and we're barely starting.

Microsoft trying to sell me laptops with "features" I keep disabling via group policy is not exactly a selling point

I could not care less about AI. I'm just interested in efficiency.

I seriously detest companies making their products deliberately confusing so it is difficult to know which one you have. You know that all the manufacturers will just say "Snapdragon X Elite" and then give no details more than that, just like they often say "I7" a lot with no details, or just "Nvidea card X" with no details of the card builder.

Usb c on both sides is not nitpicking. Charger is less of a problem. The docking station is. You see my wife's HP has Usb C on the right side I've got Dell with port on the left side. It is impossible to organise a desk good for both of us. Cables in docking stations are usually stiff and not very long.

Thanks for reviewing. Can’t wait to grab one

Thank you for the highlight on everything!

Love your videos

Watching this on the 16 inch 1tb samsung edge. A few updates on unboxing, getting used to the numpad whilst typing, touch wood, negligible fan noise and has been on battery since full charge, continosuly watching youtube on edge, for the last 8 hours and ive got 20% left. Not too bad, might need to get more updates for the quoted hours. But overall, I actually, really like it

Good review. I'm interested in how intel will respond with lunar lake. Also, I can't wait for a review of the surface laptop 7.

Good video. How hot does it get with light tasks and under load? My Ultra 7 based machine got very hot doing nothing, so I returned it. I’m going to wait for ones with discrete graphics cards.

Would be interesting to know whether the CPU or the GPU were holding back the games (because of the Arch). I know on Wine + Rosetta on mac's the CPU / emulator seems to bottleneck it.

As much as i appreciate the ARM architecture, AI for productivity is 95% useless to me. Let alone for creativity (it's a dud).

Got my surface laptop today it’s insanely snappy and the fan hasn’t come on once yet

excellent review..thank you for hard work! waiting for a follow up one after all the updates & stuff.

For a mere increase of 10% of battery life the cost to build drivers and x86 compatibility seems to be extradentary astronomical. Maybe we need a completely new hardware platform to see solid increase in efficiency. AI is just never the point here when your phone probably does a better job.

Nice for the test. I'm really lookinf forward the new X Elite processors

For max power on battery there is a setting somewhere in Advanced System Settings to set the min power on battery to 100% Matt Talks Tech actually showed this in his review.

How is the performance while running Lightroom and Photoshop? Is this a good lightweight choice for photo editing with a long battery life?

That recall feature will be disabled straight away. And if it cant be disabled then it will harm their sales

All hail market competition!

0:40 "Look at me! I drew that!" omg, I died just now...

Please pair with a discreet graphics card and I won't be looking back

In your CPU benchmark, did you let the intel laptop run on battery or plug it on ?, if 2316 is the score that intel cpu can only get by sucking juice from the power supply then the snapdragon X elite's score is really impressive

There's a lot of space left on both sides of the trackpad! So beside the sound system and speaker manufacturer, they could also print some information about the ssd, the panel, the cooling etc.! They could also advertise for completely different companies, such as Coca Cola, McDonalds or Porsche! And when it comes to stickers... in my opinion there are still not enough! How else should I know which processor I've bought?! But I'm glad to see that they printed the devices name below the display... because I keep forgetting which device I'm using! I hope there's a lot of bloatware too, so that I'm immediately in love with the OS too! ;-) Everybody wants to copy the success of Apples MacBooks... the first step would be to care for a clean looking device, a positive first impression and love for the own products in general! Still MacBooks (and maybe Dell's XPSes) are the only notebooks that do not annoy me, when first opening them!

We're actually blessed to have Tom S/o to The tech chap

Is this good for heavy duty work like 3d modelling? Mainly want to use it for game dev

That camera quality is sleek 😮

Isn't part of the issue with the games is that they currently have to run through a translation layer converting them from x86 to arm as you mentioned with the apps? I would get one, maybe with a different aspect ratio screen.

which app you using for video edit?

I have subscribed and will take your advice. I will wait 4-5 month to see what it will improve. By that time intel lunar lake will be out and will see if there's anything there as well.

7:09 this clip is 100% a video of the big ol women in san antonio

Great video. New hardware seems to be great, especially with a fine tune by Windows drivers. However, I have some questions from developer's point of view which are: Does the display have a dynamic refresh rate (like in modern phones, like LTPO displays, ...) according to what you're currently doing with device, forex: stand still, scrolling, typing, etc. If so, what's the minimum refresh rate? Can you please test how virtual machines perform? Can you install and check performance of VSCode, Android Studio, some browsers, everyday software like instant messengers, ...

The VivoBook sounds impressive, but I agree, with new tech it's usually better to wait a bit longer for more features and optimizations.

What about integration with Microsoft Office apps? Does it support it natively or do you still have to buy the $20-$30 Copilot pro subscription?

4:24 is Copilot just Progressive Web App? does it even use local language models and NPU?

I bought one because it doesn't run games well XD My usecase is: - Study - Article writing - Powerpoint / presentations - Watching Formula 1 - Watch Twitch / movies. I have a Desktop PC with a 7900XT graphics card, so gaming performance was not a dealbreaker for me - It was actually good to see.

Live caption is probably the only feature I am missing from Apple AI effort

Nice. I like thin. But I wouldn't say I like hinges that can't be handled by the plastics around them and break after a usage period. Plus thin suffer from swelling batteries. I really hope all these have been updated before looking at the software part. Oh yes, I forgot: - Mechanical Key board and - the color of the backlit. Are they good?

Can you use It to run a streaming set up???

I always disable all AI features in my laptopns, phones, whatever. This machine looks amazing, as a Thinkpad fan I hope to see a Thinkpad with this CPU. Great video!

I have been waiting for a year for these Snapdragon laptops, but when Microsoft announced their RECALL spyware, I went out and got a MacBook Air. I'm done with Windows. The Recall feature is disabled for now to avoid hurting OEM sales. Recall is an attack vector no matter how Microsoft tries to sell it.

I think arm chip is good for most of the people, I'm waiting the intel lunar lake review. Another concern of x elite, end of this year I believe mediatek, samsung will also released arm processoe for windows pc. The license between qualcomm and arm still have issue, can qualcomm design the next cpu is a question from arm company

I’m more intrigued with how MS will use windows on arm for the next xbox and xbox hand held

0:32 I WAS SCREAMING AT MY SCREEN

I like that the ROG Ally is on the side. Waiting for an Ally X review.

Can you test this for linux support? Maybe with Fedora for Arm?

This is quite interesting and possibly the only laptop video I have watched in a few months. Like arc, hopefully give it time.

loved that thumbnail!!!

Why do manufacturers seem to be going backwards with the RAM capacity these days? 16GB is fine but later on it's not ideal especially when Microsoft wants to eat more RAM with bloated features and other programmes wanting more, 32 should be the baseline especially if you can't upgrade anything anymore.

How does it compare to MB running Win ARM ?

Can we install 3rd party x86 drivers for peripherals etc on this?

Asus could use IPS panel for X Elite/X Plus laptops to get great battery life result than 3K OLED.

This was interesting, but as a Desktop only user I wonder how long before we get a usable Desktop version that will play well with a discrete GPU.

I’m an Apple Silicon MacBook user, but I’m glad for competition in the ARM-chip laptop market. Hopefully they can help to keep Apple’s prices in check.

How does the battery life compare to M3 Air? Does anyone know any benchmarks or comparisons?

Looks promising, the X Elite is just entering

It would be nice to know if it is easy to install GNU/Linux

🔥🔥🔥

right move forwards but locked bootloader or no safeboot disabling is a hard pass.. hopefully that will change

I just jumped ship to Macbook pro 14 a month ago after going through some 5 windows laptops in the last few years, the problem isn't that there isn't a range of products it is the whole sync between hardware and software that is missing especially with Windows 11 trying shove apps down everyones throat. 3/4 of the windows line up has battery issues by month 6 and the other 1/4 have good battery but weigh too much. Also the bloatware is ridiculous with windows, especially with Asus and Hp. I have been a life long user of windows (both personal and work, I work with data) which makes me question the snap dragon elite chips considering windows history with trail and error. it's all sweet on paper but would like to see a long term review of this (considering an average user holds onto the same machine for a few years). Also not forgetting the price vs spec from surface devices.

12-13 hours for RU-vid playback is astonishing because the RU-vid site is a CPU hog. That means we're looking at real 12 to 13 hours battery life for typical office stuff. Finally a Windows laptop gets into MacBook Air efficiency territory.

Does virtualbox/vmware x86/64 work?

nice video!

How does photoshop perform on the new chips compared to an Apple M1 Max?

I can't wait for live voice translation for movies. I mean... If you can put subs then you can just use a voice changer to match the characters on screen. Would be awesome feature

Ill be patiently waiting for a fan-less model with 5g capabilities to replace my M2 Macbook air.

I still can't shake off my frustration regarding the decision to remove the right Ctrl key from their design. I wish someone checks whether the laptops offer a BIOS swap for the 'co-pilot' button with the 'ctrl' key.

The only thing i like about new laptops it’s the design. Seems like they finally can compete with Apple on design, build quality and trackpad size. However, Windows it’s getting in a direction i don’t like. The software was already clogged by bloatware and now we got even more intrusive features hiding behind “AI” thing, almost malware/spyware. Probably around 3000 processes in task manager and 8-10gb of RAM usage without anything opened. They should launch a “light” version of Windows just for the people that only use Chrome. We don’t need cloud, xbox stuff, office subscriptions, microsoft accounts, etc

When would the Asus Zenbook S 16 be releasing?

I don't know why they're pushing AI when all of us just want a PC that can last all day without running hot

Hmm Blender Arm build test please?

I want the surface pro. But the base model is only 256GB, and they charge €250 to upgrade to 512GB!

I was super excited for windows arm after being fed up with windows laptops for so long but prism still seems quite immature compared to Rosetta, game compatibility seems lack luster, and not being able to install drivers is kind of a deal breaker for me when it comes to music production and connecting audio interfaces. and game porting toolkit seems to be getting a better every couple months with hundreds of games running decently well. it may be time for me to pick up a used MacBook pro with m1 max. I hope Microsoft irons it out, pretty decent launch, but I would have been ok with waiting a bit longer for this to be a bit more polished the performance keeping up with apples arm chip is nice but I think more should have been done with the translation and x86 emulation. would make adoption for all users a bit more painless.

I am watching this just to see blender performance. I didn't see much on blender here

if all you do is use office and browse the internet on the go the better battery life is gonna be a big deal but for any other use case it will depend on the app that you use since compatibility with X86-64 apps still sux.

0:32 he was paid to say that lol

Please test the battery performance on Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu.

If Intel's future laptops doesn't have minimum of 10-14hrs of battery life for casual use, I don't want it. 💯

is there a review embargo still for davinci resolve performancec?

Good to have a new processor on the market and it looks promising. Waiting for Linux support

Can't you use it with windows 10?

Asus is notorious to keep poor items inside how is the hinges this time? Seems very expensive too.

Snapdragon X Elite ❤❤

I'm super curious how Linux will run on it!

Did you run x86 apps through the emulator given?

and now battery life is the best point

title: **WATCH BEFORE YOU BUY** video: _"i can't tell you whether you should buy until i do testing"_

can't wait for linux on these things, hopefully developers will also make linux ARM software

TOPs an MP are not at all similar but I'm also getting really tired of the limits of 12MP and while I'm sure most people won't be able to tell difference I wish we had at least a few options of phones with cameras binned to 20MP. The sensors are large enough to do that at this point.

Tbh I don't see most apps being optimized/compiled for ARM. I wouldn't be willing to roll the dice on it.

Typc c chrging solution on many laptps still need serious revision, I don't know about that new machine.

Elite with 16Gb? For just $1300?

do most VPN's still not work for windows on arm?

I'll never buy a two hinge laptop again (prone to cracking). Always go for the full length versions

What's Asus' return policy if you buy this and discover you can't run all the applications you want?

For this platform 2 in 1 is the way to go as it's mobile first device.

Shame that the RAM can’t be upgraded but at least the SSD isn’t soldered

Can I downgrade to windows 10 on this laptop?