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Let me know when there's any actual reputable written reviews from big name sites, like the toms hardware, tech spot, techpowerup, guru3d s of the world etc rather than products carefully seeded to "random" YouTubers for crappy video "reviews"
Qualcomm will be adding drivers to the kernel but as mentioned above, works fine in WSL.
Is it though? This is just a myth that keeps being regurgitated.
Latest leaks show Lunar Lake is very strong at 15w, 17w and 30w. Obviously we'll have to wait for real reviews, but it's looking good for thin-n-lights.
It takes x86 more instructions to perform a task. How the specific CPU architecture manages it is a different story, which is where the likes of AMD or Intel can close the gap.
That’s not true. ARM uses a much simpler ISA, so if anything, it will be the exact oversite of that. This is why x86 uses more power, it must support a much larger instruction set. Having the extra instructions does increase performance though.
Yea sorry, meant x86 has a richer ISA whereas ARM uses a simplified and probably less flexible ISA, so there would be cases where a set of ARM instructions is less efficient, but the physical advantage allows it to use less power and generate less heat.
Can I be honest, I find those outlets not being great at reviewing these types of devices and actually do a bad job even at reviewing m series mac's.
This SL7 is yielding far more battery life for than any previous laptop thats come into our office and far cooler. Yet to hear the fans even with discord video chats (Emulated) and teams video cons. And the performance is better. We dont do all core loads, so maybe there is a scaling issue with power. But for office work, its amazing. Walks over AMD and Intel and is very much Apple silicon like.I've watched literally every review that's out there - all from respected reviewers. General consensus is that X Elite is "OK", but not much better both on and off battery than many of the chips Intel and AMD already ship. From Just Josh:
At high power draws, these Snapdragon laptops offer the same power efficiency as Intel’s current Core Ultra. They do reach this diminishing marginal returns point at slightly higher power draws though. This makes them only incrementally better than those with Intel and far behind Apple’s M3 MacBooks.
None of these new laptops come close to the CPU performance offered by larger laptops with Intel, AMD, or Apple's highest end chips. This is especially so for graphics. In gaming or 3D rendering, these laptops just aren’t going to cut it.
The reviewers all state that they tested the gaming performance only because Microsoft and Qualcomm made such huge claims for it - claims that no one can seem to replicate. Funny that.
Maybe many rushed reviews before updating etc
www.pcworld.com
It's down to differing default Windows power settings. Alex Ziskind, for example, discusses it in all three of his Elite X videos.
Lunar Lake will stop them from becoming complacent in the Windows laptop space. And Apple silicon will remain the standard against which they will be ultimately judged. Also seems Nvidia, Mediatek and Samsung want a slice of the pie once the MS/Qualcomm deal expires next year, so that'll keep them on their toes.
We'll know a bit more once all of the drivers and Windows itself is in a less beta state as that would reveal any major flaws.
I'll leave this here, for those that haven't seen it before:
chipsandcheese.com
Thanks for the link, was a good read.I'll leave this here, for those that haven't seen it before:
ARM or x86? ISA Doesn’t Matter
For the past decade, ARM CPU makers have made repeated attempts to break into the high performance CPU market so it’s no surprise that we’ve seen plenty of articles, videos and discussions about ARM’s effort, and many of these pieces focus on differences between the two instruction set...
Essentially Arm and x86 are so similar today, any differences are not about the instruction set
