ASUS Vivobook S 15 + Snapdragon X Elite: Is It Good?
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- ASUS Vivobook S 15 using the NEW Snapdragon X Elite Processor. Was it over hyped or what you expected? Hopefully this video helps you out.
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What do you guys think of the new Snapdragon X Elite / ASUS Vivobook S 15?
Great video Matthew! I think a lot of ppl will dislike the X Elite based on it's short term faults. If it's adopted well and Qualcomm figures outs it's legal battle with Arm, it'll definitely mature.
I think it's a borderline good laptop. It does what it's supposed to do and that is to be an efficiency machine. Your review and conclusion is the best out there. If you use your laptop with what's seen in your review, it's a good buy, anything else, just may have to wait or see future AMD or Intel offerings. To me it doesn't really blow out even current AMD and Intel offerings, but there's nothing to hate on the X Elite as some other folks may blast it on.
That said, I'd like to see you do the unplugged tests with the upcoming AMD and Intel products or just a head to head battle altogether by the end of this year. Oh and of course maybe make note of tdp and Wh as many laptop vendors decide this just so viewers are aware. Then again most idle and regular battery use time should be similar unless the laptop vendor royally screws it up
Nice rewiew ! Can we open it with one hand ?
Good option for console gamers or those people who do not game at all (yes they exist). The battery life seems closer to M1 Pro level than M3 Pro level. Still a huge improvement and significantly lower price than a new MacBook.
Nah man, you lost me at Photoshop being graphically intensive...
@@sk0mi It uses the CPU alot. Loves RAM but its definitely gpu intensive when applying filters and plugins.
AMD & Intel just took a deep sigh of relief. The gaming industry is still in their control. Same for other X86 software that doesn't run well through an emulator software.
Capcom and Ubisoft releasing Resident Evil and Assassin's creed for iOS could be something that's coming to ARM on Windows as well.
Arm never did well with gaming we all knew that lol. The only people claiming arm is going to make x86 dead are apple fanboys hyping up their architecture for no damn reason😭
As you see the intel laptops are even outperforming these chips in batterylife. Arm is overrated especially as it needs more ram always
@@elalemanpaisa they need "more RAM", is this because they may require multiple instructions to correspond to one CISC?
Or did you mean that Prism uses extra RAM?
@@RichWithTech the former with which are exactly right. Actually that was the reason why ARM failed 30 years ago because ram was so slow and the CPUs werte starving which isn't a problem much anymore. Arm does work well in low performance devices however if you stress your device batterylife might even be worse.
We will see where we are in 5 years. Intel moving to more advanced notes and bigLittle designs might be keep Arm on their toes for while
I think people in comments are forgetting that screen is 15.6" with 3K resolution OLED panel with 120hz Refresh rate, not with 60 Hz and with 1080 or 1440p screen. Factor in these differences and you will get your result.
Yes exactly. To really compare the difference, you would need otherwise identical laptops that come with Intel or Qualcomm chips. I don't think the other integrated graphics options would do much better.
Agree with your comment! Though I think that in his tests he does lower acreen refresh rate to 60hz. At least that's what I see in most battery benchmarks.
@@cynicist8114 maybe comparing macbook air with LCD surface will be close enough but same specs with ram and SSD will make the macbook way more expensive than any other snapdragon laptop
@@yassineaqallal8167 well even with the 60 Hz, OLED consume more power than LCD so size is also bigger so... let's wait till all the updates are here
So drop it to 60 Hz, OLED should be more efficient, and the MacBooks are not usually 1440P, they’re closer to 3K. If they can’t get up near 18 Hours on Battery, then it is a good improvement, but not as good as the MacBook.
To be fair, the lower end MacBook can only manage about 18 TOPs with the NPU and the base on this is somewhere around 40 TOPs.
Awesome! That’s for being the first to drop a video like this around the X Elite!
bro. I was waiting for someone to drop the video since 2 days.
Hes not the first at all lol, there are much smaller channels who have done it before him
Seems like the 'influencer' type youtubers got this to review first.
Another one posted sooner ua-cam.com/video/M07vlim6hhk/v-deo.htmlsi=ZfByYGkLKYjG9CdC
@@metamon2704yes more eyes to teach/sell means you can jump the line
sticker guy buying his first yatch this year
sticker guy living in Bora bora
@@MatthewMonizI love the sticker lore with this channel. That and the few times you used to say “pound” “this thing pounds” when reviewing laptops me and my friends used to crack jokes 😂
Note for light workloads the display has an equally important impact as SoC
The Zenbook 14 (Ultra 7 155H) has a 14" 2880x1800 120Hz OLED (with a 75WHr battery)
The Vivobook S 15 (X Elite X1E 78) has a 15.6" 2880x1800 120Hz OLED (with a 70WHr battery)
The Vivobook S 14 (Ultra 9 185H) has a 14" 1920x1200 60Hz OLED (with a 75WHr battery)
The Ultra 9 185H vs Ultra 7 155H should have almost negligible difference in efficiency, the difference is the displays
Hence the Vivobook S 14/Ultra 9 185H has the longest battery life because it has a larger 7% larger battery and a smaller display that's less power hungry (lower resolution & frame rate)
The Zenbook 14 vs Vivobook S 15 is the fairer comparison due to the display specs
The Vivobook S 15/X Elite has about 32% longer battery life despite the slightly larger display & slightly smaller battery
A fairer comparison would be the Samsung SDx 16 inch versus the Samsung Intel 16 inch with nvidia 40 series GPU. The Intel should only have a slight disadvantage after optimus shutting off the Nvidia GPU in light workloads. Samsung claims the same 22 hrs battery life but the SDx version uses a smaller 62WHr battery versus 74WHr on the Intel. If proven to be representative, then that gives the SDx about 20% battery life advantage.
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Thanks for the honest review!
Always!
Hey Matthew , Thanks for considering my request and showing the webcam samples in natural lighting :) It really helps. Thankyou :)
My pleasure!
Thank you for putting the laptop specs at the start of the video mate :) . I'm glad the chip seems to be living up to the hype. The more competition we have the better.
Thanks Matt, I've been looking forward to your review on one of these.
No problem!
How the turntables... Mac is now better at gaming (on ARM) than Windows ? What interesting times we live in
Most of us know Qualcomm was trying to get their Elite chip out in the field early. They know Intel and AMD are going to be releasing very capable chips in the fall and into the beginning of next year. My take is that the Elite chip is pretty decent right now but will become roadkill as we cruise into the latter part of this year.
Agreed. Strix Point and likely Lunar Lake will be faster with comparable or not far behind battery life. Not to mention the performance of the X Elite's iGPU isn't even close to the 780m. That lead will only widen considerably with the new 890m.
Yeah, if Snapdragon struggles to compete with current AMD and Intel on performance and efficiency, then they're going to be DOA when Strix Point and especially Lunar Lake arrive.
As more apps become optimized for the processor it will get better. My surface pro 11 will arrive today!! 🎉🎉🎉
How long the tests on battery has been done ?
It could be misleading to claim that the performance on battery are only 5% to 10% lower for a 2mn strain test… while for example after 30mn strain test performance may drop 30% or more…
So we need more info on how long benchmark tests on battery has been done ?
2:28 So the battery is worse than the intel ultra 9 ?? I'm not sure if I should be disappointed by Snapdragon or be impressed by Intel.
Edit: The Ultra 9 laptop has 7% larger battery along with a low powered 60Hz 1200p 14inch display meanwhile the Snapdragon laptop has a 120 Hz 3K display. Great video by Matthew as always, thou I wish he had cleared this in the video.
Probably disappointed in Snapdragon
Again... Apple is on anoyher planet with M chip notebook and their battery life
@@sydguitar99nah we should be disappointed at asus
@@itsmilan4069 it's an SoC so there's really not much they can do to it.
That's the 1st thing I noticed!?! I thought that was supposed to be the main point of these new chips!? I just bought an asus with the ultra core 7 and it lasts me all day with only charging it to 80% in the morning so I'm super happy with this new Intel chip rn, but I thought snapdragon was supposed to get like 20 hours or something like that?
Nice fair review. I know Macbook Airs screens are LCD but they seem to be very nice with high resolution. Also they are 60hz but I think it's a fair trade off for having excellent speakers, no fans and great build quality.
I still have another 3 years before I buy a new laptop, surely by then there will be major improvements to prism and more apps will be ARM compatible
These Snapdragon Windows machines feel like running a beta, even though it’s a release version. A lot of things just don’t work or they run sluggishly. It doesn’t pay to be an early adopter for this since there’s hardly any native ARM software. I’d check back in a year to see if things have improved.
What about music production software like Ableton, FL Studio? How do they run?
I wonder if the dropped frames in Resolve just needed app optimisation, or it is already the performance ceiling of the 78 cpu. Anyhow, thanks for the early review!
I was hoping at least 15+🔋
I'm glad to know Warcraft works on this. That's the main game I plan to play when I'm travelling, lol. Gotta still farm them mounts when away on business!
I'm using my Surface Pro X with my Epson Printer/Scanner and Sony MiniDisc from 2002. Which is extremely old. All work without issue. I can even use the OEM Scanner software (but not OEM printer drivers, Windows ones are as good).
Thank you Matthew for this work. Most, if not all, videos are just Qualcomm ppts turned into charts, whereas this is the real deal!
Never ever believe manufacturer claims, ever.
For the 7th gen ARM for PC product form Snapdragon, it's not bad.
Finally somebody showed gaming benchmarks too.
Why is this review the opposite of D2D review?
Dave made it sound like this laptop is the greatest of all time
I'm seeing many compromises and deal-breakers
Dave2D was selling it on price rather than performance and efficiency. It is reasonable priced but not as value-oriented as Dave made out.
Dave is talking about value to money and this laptop definitely is best value to money. Plus Dave managed to run games on it. 😅
@@Kratos30000 im honestly not sure if u hv ever watched any of his videos before
Became Dave2D reviewed it by productivity standards. Not gaming. This guy on the other hand is talking about gaming. Which this pc obviously wasn't geared towards.
@@danishsohail8852 Dave was wrong on value though, you can get laptops with an 8840HS or better for well under $1000, which will give you 90% of the CPU performance of the X Elite and much faster iGPU performance. Only downside is less battery life.
Thanks for getting this out. Whelp on that battery life, that was what was holding me back. I have a feeling if AMD hits their targets the 9 ai 365 will be the new windows battery champ.
Other people are reporting pretty good battery life for it, Dave2d, Booredatwork and so on.
Even though I probably will not be running out to get one of these laptops, it is still a very solid device and I feel that for mainstream users who increasingly live in the browser, this will be an excellent choice.
But, like you said, the main Achilles' heel is still the software and the drivers which, unlike software, cannot be emulated and need to be recompiled. That automatically makes this laptop a non-starter if you need to use exotic, specialized hardware that does not have ARM drivers for Windows (on Linux, it is not that big of a problem since the drivers are open-source and can be recompiled).
If i had to work back, this definitely would have been in my wishlist
Is gonna take time to start taking full advantage of this new platform.
People here is forgetting that these PCs were never supposed to be Gaming laptops. Never
Exactly. I like his reviews. He's one of my favorites. But I believe he got it wrong here. I believe this PC is meant for productivity rather than gaming.
@@nakdickson also he did not specify the SUK of the cpu. There are at least three different version of the X Elite, with important differences
Whatever I was hoping more than 15+ battery life .. gaming not included ... False claim. ... From Qualcomm
@@nakdickson The point of the gaming was to show app incompatibility which I summarize at the end of the video. Yes, its not a gaming laptop but Qualcomm made a big deal about gaming and its important we point it out. But yes if you live in a world where apps are optimized for ARM you'll love this thing.
That's a bit dishonest in itself as they marketed that it can play games. They've even made a feature for 'AI' upscaling for gaming so to say they don't want ppl to play games on the X Elite is kinda absurd considering Windows is the OS to play games (or at least use to). 'Gaming' by your terms may not be Cyberpunk or Helldivers but the top percent of the most played games like WoW, LoL, Valorant, CS2, Dota, Overwatch, any e-sport game should be really good, also considering you have a 120hz screen, I'm sure QC would want a share of the average PC gaming market if it can
I appreciate your review and honesty on this because your experience is very different than Dave. Straight up going for performance really gave us what we wanted. After your review, I think I'll wait till ARM matures and see then whether its better to go for Ryzen, Intel or ARM. Thank you Matthew!
You're very welcome and I'm glad you found it helpful!
Still getting an X Elite powered laptop for my next one. I'm done with intel's incremental updates. They only "redesign" their chips when there's competition around the corner. So, I'm moving to other SOCs.
im not remembering any rosetta2 error when i start to use applications on apple m1.... apparently mikisoft and qualcomm felt the pressure and served undercooked products to consumer again... no sir im not gonna be your alpha tester with my own money and sanity..
Sounds like Apple and Microsoft also have different emulator philosophies. Apple wrote Rosetta 2 as a translator at install time, converting the entire binary to ARM so it runs ARM natively. Microsoft, it seems, is relying on pure emulation, which will have run time performance problems as it translates on the fly.
How will it do teams/office and how does the asus version compare to the MS Surface laptops? Thinking about this for the on-the-go laptop next to my bigger workstation laptop.
Yo Matthew! I have a question, if my laptop does not have an Ethernet port and I connect it via USB to Ethernet Adapter Ethernet to USB Adapter for Laptop would it take it in as a usb has connected to it or an Ethernet cable has been connected?😅
As an Ethernet cable, the same happens if you USB tether internet from your android.
@@uninsignificantso I’m assuming it would work as an Ethernet cable instead of usb?
@@Naagee yes, it will show as an ethernet controller instead of usb device.
@@uninsignificantoh tysm
Does it help performance on Resolve when you make Proxies?
Fair assessment. Seems like a really frank review without pulling any punches.
They have announced these are compared to Mac Book Air, not meant to be like Pro Macs where gaming and video editing is meant for that
How about running games on a cloud service like Geforce now?
Is it running smooth on ARM?
google will definitely develop a version of android OS for the new snapdragon processor. i can see mobile apps running natively on this laptop in the future.
I'd love to see how alienware or msi integrades snapdragon X Elite with high end rtx graphic card and see how both works together
Not happening
Tbh I’m fine with how it performs. Just want a 2 in 1 with good performance and good battery life. And hopefully that’s what the surface pro 11 will be. I’m sure in time as apps get translated to arm more and arm laptops start getting discreet GPUs, it’ll get even better
Which variant of x elite is that? Because benchmark looks like the lowest version of it and not the 80 version
It does appear that QC per chip on the X Elite is up and down, one person could get a good one, and the next a worst-performing one with the same skew. This is the second skew down so the main variant of the X Elite. Only Samsung ATM uses the highest version.
No the big question we all have is, what happens if you send it in as an average user to service centre, is the experience improved for ASUS or the same nightmare
it's what i expected, around 50% battery life improvement. and its 3k 120hz. most x86 chips were 60hz in 12+ hours. and for gaming, i think it will be a long time to get windows arm support, maybe will change if a lot of people buy windows arm. i mean for gaming, i'll still use nvidia laptop. nvidia were really on a league on its own when it comes to gaming.
3:38
THX for trying Resolve 19.
This dosn´t look to bad for me at all.
You're welcome!
for me it's look bad... timeline preview as like i see here is not acceptabe... I hope thai it will be MUCH faster in soon updates (Davinci for macbook got x3-x5 faster performance is one of previous updates- i hope that it will repeat on ARM Windows)
@@EnduroLRA There is not much hope with updates. You can do only so much.
The BIG thing with M SOCs is the inbuild H264/5 en-decoding engine!
Obviously not existing.
Watch the story on Intels Quicksysc. Quite interesting: An Intel developer who went into contact with Blackmagic and startet developing hardware encoding on the iGPU after that.
But I do not care too much: I WANT WIN back,
With all these laptops built around SoCs, as a developer I wish 32/64GB RAM configs will be widely available, otherwise these are not really viable to me as working devices.
Hey Matthew, why you dont use the audio translate in UA-cam, personally i from mexico and i miss thes option to Hear the videio in spanish.
Second, When is the surface pro 11 coming?
What version of the x elite chip was this? If I remember well, X1E-84-100 seemed like the highest option. Is this laptop the same?
Its the 78 version
2:48
Why does it say that you're testing x86? Are you using the x86 version of gcc or are you compiling the x86 version of Firefox?
X86 version of Firefox
VERY disappointed RAM soldered in...Can You get the advertised 18 hour battery life? How do You get software makers to port applications to arm?
I always wonder how non-Adobe pdf applications will run on Arm. If they run well, I might consider getting one.
I got 10 hours yesterday.
Set to 60hz at 1080p, with a galaxy tab s7+ paired, also at 60hz at 1080p
Was running 5 chrome tabs (wordpress stuff & youtube music), Excel, Filezilla, Outlook, & Teams.
Haven't tested any gaming at all, yet.
13hours on a 70whr battery, 15 inch display. that doesn't sound that great right? the surface laptop 15 has like a 66whr battery? lower res, not oled though, so maybe itll be better
3k resolution 240hz oled. Battery seems pretty good to me with that screen eating all that battery. Do the same on a 1080p 60hz, probably 50-80% more battery
@@eduardmc But why do you need to run it at 240hz all the time? The frame rate of motion pictures is at 24hz. 240hz is 10 times of that. It might be useful for competitive gaming but this arm laptop is not good at that.
This laptop has a 120hz screen @@eduardmc
These laptops are made for work, not for gaming. There aren't many games available for this new system yet, but I think they'll be great for gaming in the future, especially when developers start using the NPUs' power. And the 12-hour battery life is amazing! These Snapdragon X Elite chips are going to change the industry.
How can the variance on the Pugetbench results be explained between M3 and X Elite? Is this a case of software optimization or that big of a difference in the hardware?
There's not that much difference in the hardware, Apple has been aiming for high benchmark scores with Puget and Geekbench from day 1 of Apple Silicon.
Apple optimises for creator workflows, whilst Windows is more gaming. However, the X-Elite is not a gaming machine but an ultrabook.
With time it will get better, better not jump into the bandwagon right away. Let's wait for next gen
Amazing sticker review as always :>
Thanks again!
Am having an issue on mine with the WiFi constantly dropping.....idk what is going on 😭😭😭
Thank you so much for testing WOW, Matthew. Was it the x85 app? So it means MAC has is better, as the Client is compiled for arm64, so its quicker on Macos with M2 then with the Snapdragon anbd i can play like 2 hours Wow on battery until the 13‘ Macbook pro dies ;)
I think this may be best to use on the surface pro 11 because the use cases he said are good for it to me is more of an iPad daily type of thing
how did you get elden ring to run? launching it gives me the not supported by x64 message.
It’s not running it’s just a video
U should mention which x Elite version is it is it 84-100 or 70 series.
The compatibility will take atleast a decade to be resolved so my suggestion is unless ur task is natively compiled for arm don't buy arm laptops in 2024 and buy in 2034 bcs it will take atleast a decade to resolve this issue
This one is the 78 series so it's on the lower end. Only the Samsung Galaxy Edge currently has the 84 X1E for day 1.
And not on every model, some Galaxy Edge models have the 80 variant
The emulation hit is only 10 percent, also most common apps are already arm. No need to wait at all.
@@TalynOne not for games
@@debojitmandal8670 correct, i have a chonky heavy loud battery hog laptop for gaming, this is going to be my work slash travel device.
I would say it is exactly as loud as a "normal" windows laptop. How is the fan noise compared to a Mac? I cant recall the numbers
Louder
I hoped that Davinci Resolve would work much better... Was the test on the Studio or free version?
Studio Beta 3
Big question... if I'm an Asus fanboy, who lives in my browser when I'm not using Photoshop and Lightroom and I never ever play games but I can't decide whether to go all out on a Zenbook UX8406MA-PZ203W with Intel Core Ultra 9 and 32GB RAM with 2TB fast SSD storage or to take a leap of faith with Vivobook S 15 with Snapdragon Elite etc. etc. - which laptop do you believe is going to give me THE best performance experience? I don't care about 'bang for my buck', I just want THE most powerful laptop for my needs. Which of those is it going to be?
AMD's Strix is coming out next month. It should be the fastest mobile CPU.
13hrs of battery life, oh cmon it supposed to be on 20hrs range!
And BTW newer chips AMD Ryzen launch in July it will obliterates every benchmark!
You do Realise that’s a Totally Different
Laptop Brand Promising that ? 😅
13 hours ? Seriously ? They promised 18 to 20 hours
@@AleWebCreateyes
on a different laptop from a different company 🤦🏽♂️
It's the laptop manufacturer who decides battery power, chip manufacturers only decide how much power it consumes.
Dell and Microsoft promised 20 hours. Asus never did
I've been waiting for this review. The future of window looks promising. Still it will take few years at least 2 years. The gaming experience is gonna be nuts. Imagine playing Aaa game for 8 hours straight on the plane without changing.
Nah gaming on mac only last 2 hours... Nothing fancy about arm either
Still waiting for gaming on Mac. I hope X Elite catches up and Microsoft supports it like a true mobile device.
I am not switching from a Mac for the next 6-7 years for sure 😊
After using this for a while, I still feel older M2 MacBook air would be a great option for majority of people, even the content creators. Provided you get a good deal.
I wonder why they would go for ASUS of all brands to showcase their new SOCs. Especially since they are in such hot-water right now.
Price. It is the cheapest and I wonder if Qualcomm has done a deal so the Vivobook is a loss-leader to promote the new X Elite chips.
Asus sent these to the reviewers and specified the embargo. Samsung has been early shipping Galaxy Book 4 Edge units to random people so they have been posting their impressions for about a week. The smaller reviewers who ordered everything will start posting initial impressions as they get the devices. Dell could have sent an XPS 13 early and lifted the embargo on launch day like Asus, but they didn't. No one chose Asus, Asus executed faster because they churn out stuff all the time. The real Asus models like the PZ13 won't be available for months.
Because Asus non-gaming laptops are great. The support is awful, but the non-gaming products are still good.
Linux usually only gets 5-20% performance impact when running x86 software through box64/box86 emulation (x86 to ARM compatibility layers) on the existing ARM platforms supported on Linux. I wonder if that's also the case for the Snapdragon X elite (which I don't know if works with Linux OOTB). If so, it's a tempting Linux machine.
I would like to try the laptop myself but from what I see it doesn't look so impressive and that's the X Elite Processor. I can only imagine what's the performance on the other versions. Not the best choice for gamers, not the best choice for video editing... I would like to see how it handles heavier tasks on the apps like Adobe Photoshop, Blender, the Microsoft Office. In the world of data how would that machine handle SQL scripts, Power BI, Tableau and others?
Cool to see ARM Windows doing this well! but honestly the extra battery life for app incompatibility/issues and similar performance to modern Intel and AMD while losing heavy on gaming/gpu performance is not that exciting (and I'm talking about Intel/amd igpu performance) like you aren't even gaining some insane performance even on CPU.
Translation is something like wine where calls get translated here literally x86 ISA gets emulated
So essentially, what it really needs is more arm support and a discreet GPU. Feel like it’s just a matter of time at this point for those things
I think this ARM Pc's are currently aiming for productivity rather than gaming.
discreet gpu isnot happening
nvidia already supports arm thanks to their foray with nintendo switch so its a matter of time
@@Akmpkm32 nah it’ll happen, it’s got the pcie slots for it
@@nakdickson I know, and that’s enough for me tbh. I’m getting the surface pro for art and NPR blender stuff
I’m interested in knowing how well is Linux support
I am looking forward to using this architecture with Linux installed 🤗
You can set the power settings to use the SOC at 100% on battery and then it'll beat the M3 easily.
I edit videos. But the fact that Davinci Resolve is built for ARM and still cant playback smoothly at 4k with color? Come on..
Decent first showing. Not great but not bad. Bring on Snapdragon Gen 2
I agree, but im afraid because of the early hype, most people will saw it as a disappointment and not a decent, but still have to work on the next gen harder chip.
I believe this is with X1E-78-100 chip, so expect X Elite come even stronger, when we get X1E-80-100 and X1E-84-100 chip device tests.
It's already like their 4th try with laptops. They had the Snapdragon 7c Gen 2, Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3, Snapdragon 8cx, all of which had versions that were on actual laptops running Windows 10/11 and not chromebooks running ChromeOS.
@@dronshi this time it’s different because this chip was largely designed by engineers behind Apples M1. So you should treat it as first gen
@@SunsetNova It's not called "Designed by engineers behind Apples M1", it's called "Snapdragon" and it's their fourth gen.
It looks like running on arm is gonna be like running linux: you'll have some serious compatibility issues that translation layers will never be able to fix. You can decide to cross your arms and say "well I guess I just won't do those things then," but the issues won't go away.
"But they'll make Prism better in the future. It'll work once Microsoft does "
Yes it may......for NEWER processors, and this one will be left behind as "legacy, no further updates or optimizations."
This will be my new productivity laptop!
Does it run Audio Production software? Reaper, Studio One, Pro Tools etc...
Yikes! Soldiered WiFi Card?? So if the wifi card goes, the entire machine has to be replaced or hopefully under warranty? That's not great.
hmm hmm. the gpu being so hampered is a little concerning! would have loved this for very simple video editing and single-character animations
The GPU is below all rivals and if you do anything where the GPU is important then the X-Elite is not a good choice.
The GPU in the x elite is weaker than 5 years old rtx 2060 mobile
@@dantebg100honestly shocking man. The macs are crazy with video editing. Cant believe this cant do video editing
@@saadabdullah4245 Did you actually watch the video? Because the guy was doing 4K editing on it which was completely doable.
@nokivasara4997 i did not say its not doable. And i did watch the video thank you. But the fact is look at the dropped frames when you so heavy editing. It seems macs are ahead. Will wait for more comprehensive reviews. Might just have to wait for second gen so all early teething problems are dealt with
What do you think for music production can do work ?
I believe that this is the beginning an there is still room for improvement in years to come
idk why they went with a silver keyboard again, also makes no sense for the 16.9 display, since 16.10 has been the trend and for most uses it has more advantages
DPI scaling might be to blame for the weird screen resolution and inability to run games fullscreen. For some games (such as FF14), you have to go compatibility properties for the executable, and tell it "Scaling performed by: Application". Otherwise, the game will see some fraction of the real resolution, and will fail to go fullscreen properly.
So I reran Overwatch with Windows SR off and it worked fine! Other games like Diablo IV still crashed
Does Microsoft super resolution upscaler work with world of warcraft?
Why bother, we already have dlss, fsr and xess.
those don't work on world of warcraft the game is 20 years old
I don't know about others but I feel like I want more details in the battery testing like: max/min/avg power consumption, software to limit power consumption, range of different workloads... I want to note that I AM DEFINITELY NOT an expert on the matter! Just someone who feels lost when looking at benchmarks regarding battery life! Like so many things can be different from personal experience that I get lost. Anyway great video !
Hey I agree with you. We've only had the laptop for a short time. But Ill definitely be doing more extensive battery tests soon. I have lots of Snapdragon X Elite klaptops coming in.
What is the performance for playing world of warcraft? Could you make a video about the gaming?
Im guessing wait for 2nd gen or native apps get better and or catch up. But good effort overall
It has been overly hyped. It's not a game-changer; it's more like a new chip that falls short of expectations. However, having competition is beneficial for us as consumers.
I agree, underwhelmed, but glad it exists and hopefully, it will get better next generation.
If you're not gaming, ARM machines makes more sense even in this state
Unless it creates a split in the developer world because software now needs another code path for another cpu architecture that increases development costs, and resources spent on getting it to work on this 3rd entrant could be better spent optimising performance on the other established CPU+GPU architectures that the majority already use...
Thanks for the early review! So for me, not interested in this architecture for gaming. But what disappoints me the most is battery life.... only 12 hours? If it's on par with meteorlake, then lunarlake will kill this.... and if it's no better than x86 with battery life, then what's the point? Looks like it's best not to be an early adopter. My next laptop is looking to be a macbook air with m4 when it launches, or I may still give Lunar Lake a chance.
I get 5-6 hours best on any intel platform. Not sure intel will ever make a power efficient chip competitive with arm offerings.
@@ocvjw8734 Not sure what generation or config that is that you are using, but I get about 7-8 hours currently with my intel gen 13 laptop. In this review here, he shows meteorlake getting 12-13 hour which is on par with what i've read with other reviews and make sense based on what i'm getting on intel gen 13. So i have no idea what you're using, but that sounds like only your config.
@brianclarke8503 I was using a galaxy book 3 pro with Intel Core i7 13th gen. Only on a very dim screen with mainly streaming audio I could get around the 7 hour mark. (It was advertised to 13-14 hours) I did gift a new dell with the core ultra processor to family, maybe its better there. But at this point I'm done with x86.
Btw no laptop company has accurate battery life estimations, including Apple.
These companies purposely lower the brightness all the way down and do light task so they can technically claim it can last those hours, but in real life use, it probably only last half the time they claim🤷♂️
This is when people eat all the marketing bullshit.. it's required 12 power cores to catch up with Apple 4 power cores (basic M series), and since the Windows is multitasking OS, and each app use one core, you can rapidly use 7-8 power cores.. which will ALWAY use more power like the 4 power cores and 4 efficiency cores.. (not to mention the fan noise, so it's still hotter like the fanless Macbook, which also a hint for more power consumption..)
It sounds good, but I'm waiting how the new architecture of intel lunar lake compete with x elite.
For everyone watching please do remember there are several different variants of this chip. As well as each manufacturer decides how much power they want to use in this chip. For example Samsung is currently the only manufacturer I believe using the strongest version of the chip, the x84-100, in the galaxy book 4 edge.
Don't be disappointed by just one review video about one particular type of chip.
As long as I have performance close to plug in and battery, I'm in. I want for profissional use, mostly office work. Looking forward to move from my AMD 5000 to X Plus (I dont think the premium for X elite is worth)