I am not a creator and these devices work just perfect for me with a battery life never seen on any of my previous x86 Notebooks. To make it clear: our 3 snapdragon devices "stay charged" as you are asking for.
The only people that have ever said the X Elite were pro-devices were creators doing sponsored ads (reviews). Sadly, thanks to Qualcomm and OEMs throwing bags of money at influencers we got a grossly exaggerated view of these chips. A shocking mess for consumers to unravel and they have spoken in their masses, with these machines being returned in bulk, selling below expectations, and nose-diving in secondhand prices. I am for one now saying that all sponsored YT content should be in its own showroom, so we can avoid the rainbows and unicorns of that output. Saying that, if you take into account what X Elite can do and are happy with it, and you didn’t buy at launch prices, instead waiting for the inevitable discounts you can bag an excellent premium “Chromebook”. I would advocate buying X Elite over any $700 Chromebook like the upcoming Samsung Chromebook Plus (8GB/256GB/i3/1080p/60Hz). Great battery life, snappy and responsive for most light tasks, no heat, no fan noise, and solid specs. But, at the right price as these are not great with the subpar GPU, poor app compatibility, and diminishing returns for intensive work. For Windows for great ultrabooks performance the AMD ones are the de facto choice.
What other channels do you like consuming as an upcoming creator. For creators I been following Brad colbow. PS love the lighting and camera production upgrades on your channel. Been following for a while.
Davinci resolve, Google Drive and a lot of the major VPNs have gotten native Windows on Arm support so I'm glad more developers are coming on board, hopefully by the time the second gen X Elite comes out, Adobe and other major players fully come out witht their Arm native apps and rest of the more niche stuff can be emulated that's fine for now
AI has been overhyped, in sense that much of what you can do on Co-pilot PC is available today by handing off your query via a local AI app to some remote server running various AI large language models (LLM). But if you lose your internet link, you are stuffed, as you lose your connection to the server managing your AI workload. What Co-pilot PCs will allow you to do is manage much more of this workload locally and in "real-time" on LLMs running on your PC (for example, foreign language translation), i.e. no delay while you wait for your request to travel across the internet to server, then wait for the server to process your request along with millions of other requests, and then the response to travel back across the internet to your PC. For this work locally you need a decent NPU (40 TOPS or greater), at least 16GB RAM, and a decent amount of storage to save those LLMs that can be tens of giga bytes in size. Hence the Windows Co-pilots PCs and Apple upcoming M4 MacBook / Macs with 16 GB RAM in the base model and boosted neural engines to run Apple Intelligence!
Generative AI is stock hype tech, customer service job killer and normalizing the theft of creative output. Not much else. Outside of that, Intel's Lunar Lake turns the ARM on Windows/Linux option a deadend.
I've been eyeing PZ13 but it has the 8 core variant of the X Plus chip instead of the 10 core variant which is normally used on most X Plus devices like the Surface Pro. I am not reallly sure if it's performance is bad in comparison to even M3 MacBook Air.
the only way to move to Arm is the apple way (macos, not iOS ) windows has way too much legacy. wonderful software library but business/consumer mix mess. linux has internal fighting, quite woke, and barely works on Qualcomm yet.
Windows on arm is not real windows. And ai is just this year's buzz word just like nfts. Strix and lunar lake do everything sd can do and way more. And things just work on them.
I am not a creator and these devices work just perfect for me with a battery life never seen on any of my previous x86 Notebooks. To make it clear: our 3 snapdragon devices "stay charged" as you are asking for.
Lunar lake will save you on that
Intel Lunar Lake has much better BATTERY LIFE than X Elite.
The only people that have ever said the X Elite were pro-devices were creators doing sponsored ads (reviews). Sadly, thanks to Qualcomm and OEMs throwing bags of money at influencers we got a grossly exaggerated view of these chips. A shocking mess for consumers to unravel and they have spoken in their masses, with these machines being returned in bulk, selling below expectations, and nose-diving in secondhand prices. I am for one now saying that all sponsored YT content should be in its own showroom, so we can avoid the rainbows and unicorns of that output.
Saying that, if you take into account what X Elite can do and are happy with it, and you didn’t buy at launch prices, instead waiting for the inevitable discounts you can bag an excellent premium “Chromebook”. I would advocate buying X Elite over any $700 Chromebook like the upcoming Samsung Chromebook Plus (8GB/256GB/i3/1080p/60Hz). Great battery life, snappy and responsive for most light tasks, no heat, no fan noise, and solid specs. But, at the right price as these are not great with the subpar GPU, poor app compatibility, and diminishing returns for intensive work. For Windows for great ultrabooks performance the AMD ones are the de facto choice.
Please show where one OEMs has callilng these Snapdragon laptops "pro-device".
Once you can't please delete this comment.
I agree 100% about battery life. I travel so I use my laptop on the go. I even avoid high end GPUs because of battery consumption.
What other channels do you like consuming as an upcoming creator. For creators I been following Brad colbow.
PS love the lighting and camera production upgrades on your channel. Been following for a while.
Davinci resolve, Google Drive and a lot of the major VPNs have gotten native Windows on Arm support so I'm glad more developers are coming on board, hopefully by the time the second gen X Elite comes out, Adobe and other major players fully come out witht their Arm native apps and rest of the more niche stuff can be emulated that's fine for now
AI has been overhyped, in sense that much of what you can do on Co-pilot PC is available today by handing off your query via a local AI app to some remote server running various AI large language models (LLM). But if you lose your internet link, you are stuffed, as you lose your connection to the server managing your AI workload. What Co-pilot PCs will allow you to do is manage much more of this workload locally and in "real-time" on LLMs running on your PC (for example, foreign language translation), i.e. no delay while you wait for your request to travel across the internet to server, then wait for the server to process your request along with millions of other requests, and then the response to travel back across the internet to your PC. For this work locally you need a decent NPU (40 TOPS or greater), at least 16GB RAM, and a decent amount of storage to save those LLMs that can be tens of giga bytes in size. Hence the Windows Co-pilots PCs and Apple upcoming M4 MacBook / Macs with 16 GB RAM in the base model and boosted neural engines to run Apple Intelligence!
Generative AI is stock hype tech, customer service job killer and normalizing the theft of creative output. Not much else. Outside of that, Intel's Lunar Lake turns the ARM on Windows/Linux option a deadend.
I've been eyeing PZ13 but it has the 8 core variant of the X Plus chip instead of the 10 core variant which is normally used on most X Plus devices like the Surface Pro. I am not reallly sure if it's performance is bad in comparison to even M3 MacBook Air.
By "security" you meant "privacy".
the only way to move to Arm is the apple way (macos, not iOS ) windows has way too much legacy. wonderful software library but business/consumer mix mess. linux has internal fighting, quite woke, and barely works on Qualcomm yet.
Windows on arm is not real windows. And ai is just this year's buzz word just like nfts. Strix and lunar lake do everything sd can do and way more. And things just work on them.
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