Snapdragon X Elite Reviews are Out: Solid Performance and Great Battery Life | Beebom
Snapdragon X Elite Reviews are Out: Solid Performance and Great Battery Life | Beebom
Copilot+ PCs have started shipping and early reviews are out for the Snapdragon X Elite processor. We have collated all the reviews in one place.
I wonder what's the Linux experience/support on this laptop
Literally what I was wondering, lol. My first thought was "how well does it run Debian?"
OTOH, I really don't want to contribute to a sale that may make MS or the hardware manufacturers think people want this AI crap. I just want a beefy ARM laptop that runs Linux lol.
Well, actually, what if I want AI "crap" capability with my Linux ARM laptop?
The TOPS on those systems are no joke. Consider that it's 1/2 the performance of an RTX 2060 in a slim laptop form factor.
Edit: The performance variance is still the same. 2060 can do almost 13 TFLOPS fp16 or about 102 TOPS measured (this figure is on other sites too, this is what I can find atm). SD Elite X can do 45 TOPS. Not bad, considering existing x86_64 CPUs with an NPU do 10-16 TOPS.
So the way MS is using it is incredibly dumb, but hardware wise, it’s just a NN-optimized tile on the CPU. That is going to be a great thing for democratizing access to serious machine learning hardware. In that respect, it’s actually pretty awesome, despite the fact that It’s annoying that the initiative is tied so closely to MS.
I wanted an Arm based Linux netbook or laptop for many years ever since the multi-core Smartphones came out around 2008.
Already back then the Intel based Netbooks were laughably bad compared to Arm, and couldn't even play video properly, while you could do that with ease even on early smartphones with Arm at 1080p.But for some reason Arm has given Linux very little love with their GPU drivers, and AFAIK they still don't support it well, so now I say go fuck yourself.
Arm is NOT a good company for Linux. How they missed that opportunity for a strong market entry for over a decade I simply cannot fathom.If AMD made an Arm CPU with Radeon graphics, that would be cool. Because AMD has good open source drivers on Linux, and has generally good Linux support.
Qualcomm paid Canonical a hefty sum to make sure chipsets were supported. It went upstream to kernel, but I don't think it's even in the 6.10 release last I checked. DKMS job for now I'm assuming?
https://canonical.com/blog/qualcomm-and-canonical-announce-strategic-collaboration
None, locked out.
Surely they're not going to give the game away on the first generation ?
To end the PC and turn it into a phone. Surely they would let people run linux for gen 1 & gen 2 and only then lock the bootloader. And maybe keep a triple priced version with an unlockable bootloader until the alternative OS community dies of attrition.
I'm not interested in anything that's "Co-Pilot enabled."
So, you're done with computer hardware?
There's always Linux.
Are you suggesting that all computer hardware is going to be branded as such?
Man, that's a bummer. I've been really unimpressed with Intel's laptops the past few years.
Okay but what about app compatibility?
I think the wave of hype sort of overshadowed a couple of key points about these chips:
- Performance & efficiency aren't leaps & bounds ahead of the Intel & AMD crowd
- ARM Windows laptops are still Windows laptops
Battery life is hardware and software.