Should you buy a Snapdragon X Elite OR Lunar Lake laptop!? The DEFINITIVE answer!

Obvi­ous­ly AMD lol

I use Log­itech’s key­board and mouse and the fact that I won’t be able to install the Logi Option+ on a Snap­drag­on lap­top is a deal-break­er for me.
Update: It runs suc­cess­ful­ly on emulation

Google dri­ve is com­ing soon to Qual­comm Snap­drag­on X Elite chip,

Note that Google Dri­ve for ARM beta is out now.

Per­fect analy­sis. Every­thing you said is on point. ARM is the future of com­put­ing in gen­er­al! The tran­si­tion might be slow on the Win­dows side, but even­tu­al­ly ARM will win the war. Even Intel knows this. Lunar Lake is just a stop gap to stay rel­e­vant. Intel is already look­ing into ARM

Not even com­pa­ra­ble. Lunar Lake is too weak for any­thing oth­er than media con­sump­tion. If you are con­cerned with com­pat­i­bil­i­ty, then the Ryzen 300 series is the way to go and also gets great bat­tery life, with a pow­er­ful GPU.

I real­ly real­ly want snap­drag­on to work.. Also work on their gpu to han­dle heavy work­loads and games… We need anoth­er option on win­dows..
After that, we can talk about hav­ing anoth­er lap­top and desk­top OS.

Amaz­ing video, so true. Once Intel ditch­es TSMC we are back to were where were… Mean­while more and more stuff are being made native for ARM and Win­dows on ARM itself is improv­ing emu­la­tion com­pat­i­bil­i­ty adding new instruc­tions sets

Lunar Lake is a one-off in terms of uni­fied mem­o­ry and TSMC man­u­fac­tur­ing. Intel process and sep­a­rate RAM mod­ules do not nec­es­sar­i­ly mean worse bat­tery life in next gen­er­a­tions, if Intel man­ages to do it right. Lunar Lake is a tri­al prod­uct using some tech­nol­o­gy from oth­ers before Intel hope­ful­ly learns to do the same thing in house and thus cheaper.

Next gen x elite will be bet­ter, just a mat­ter of time. Like M1 to M2 chip

I have only one ques­tion. After remov­ing those peo­ple who are left to buy intel lunar lake?

Next gen AMD Strix Point may kill both of them.

7:00 The Lunar Lake Note­books all have Thun­der­bolt 4, and with this you can use an exter­nal GPU (eGPU) with it. So Lunar Lake with GPU is pos­si­ble. So Point 1 not true.
7:23 The Asus Vivo­book S14 with Lunar Lake is on sale at Best­buy for 649 Dol­lars. So no Lunar Lake Note­book under 1000 Dol­lars is not true. Point 2 not true.

The 8 Xe2 Cores on Lunar Lake are some­times even faster than the AMD Strix Point GPU. So gam­ing is real­ly good on this device. I have one here (Zen­book S14), and i can even play Myth Woukong or Bal­durs Gate 3. Even CS2 or Val­o­rant are no prob­lem, run­ning with over 100fps.
So telling every­one Lunar Lake is bad for gam­ing is straight misleading.

What about AMD HX series?

How much Intel pays you ..

I guess if you nev­er saw the Win­dows RT dis­as­ter then you would­n’t know why every­one is say­ing wait until they’re 90% off 😅 pret­ty much every­one will run into soft­ware you can’t install. Lim­it­ing RAM is a much less seri­ous issue than like I have a lot of x86 soft­ware with low per­for­mance that has to be able to run.

They are both amaz­ing, but Lunar Lake is a bet­ter choice over­all IMHO and also a greater tech­ni­cal achieve­ment if we con­sid­er that is an x86 CPU and how tech­ni­cal­ly dif­fi­cult is to have a pow­er effi­cien­cy com­pa­ra­ble to ARM-based chips on a so com­plex instruc­tion set. There is a lot of focus on attach­ing exter­nal GPU in this video but not much atten­tion about the capa­bil­i­ties of the iGPU of the respec­tive SoC(despite both these solu­tions aren’t a choice that real­ly makes much sense for gamers or to train LLM), worth to men­tion also that Lunar Lake includes the hard­ware sup­port to H.266 VVC the true suc­ces­sor of H.265 HEVC video codec , that will be an increas­ing­ly impor­tant fac­tor as this will start to be wide­ly adopted.

I agree that right now there is much broad­er sup­port and usabil­i­ty for apps and pro­grams on X86 archi­tec­ture, how­ev­er that’s chang­ing. RISC‑V is much bet­ter than RISC-IV, and ARM may lose out if Qual­comm can side­step them while reach­ing for RISC‑V. Over all, though, every day X86 lega­cy pro­grams are being rewrit­ten for RISC archi­tec­ture, and they’re becom­ing avail­able on ARM type sys­tems. This is why Microsoft is work­ing with Qual­comm to get Win­dows work­ing just as well on X Elite and maybe even 8 Elite chipsets. It will be only a cou­ple years before they reach par­i­ty in terms of apps or pro­gram sta­bil­i­ty and avail­abil­i­ty. I think tablets and lap­tops are merg­ing into each oth­er’s ter­ri­to­ry and soon there will be tablets like Sam­sung’s Tab S series able to replace laptops.

Bought my broth­er the leno­vo slim 7x with Snap­drag­on x elite . Mannn win­dows on arm iss sooo goood, feels much snap­pi­er than x86 ver­sion also no issue with standby/sleep issue unlike on x86. I wish that every big devel­op­er could port their apps for arm soon

Or just get an AMD Strix Point laptop

Arm proces­sors are the future..

BTW, Lin­ux runs fine on Arm, like Rasp­ber­ry Pi and Orange Pi, so I do not see any prob­lem why not Snapdragon?