The headline here on HN is editorialized for clickbait, which is against the rules. The original title is “Snapdragon X Elite vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155H: We ran the benchmarks”.<p>Computers with fans and 23W-80W TDP vs computer with no fans (passively cooled) with ~10W TDP. The headline is frustrating because neither it or the article discuss the difference between dissipation and power draw, or performance per watt on either measure.
I don't care how fast the laptop is to be honest. Most have been fast enough for what I need to do for years.<p>What I care about is battery life. Get me a Windows laptop as small as a MacBook Air with as good of a display that lasts as long or longer on battery. Then I'll be interested.<p>The new Snapdragon processors seem like a step in the right direction though.
Apple M2 consumes roughly 20 watt and snapdragon X elite is at 23 watt. They are comparing an active cooled snapdragon with Macbook air which does not have a fan.
It's quite misleading - there are 2 variations of this processor: The Elite A which is quite a beast (80W TDP) and the Elite B (which is very in-line with the M2 - 23W TDP but actively cooled).<p>I'm surprised the year-old M2 does as well as it does with passive cooling.<p>I'd love to see active benchmarks of the Elite A vs. M2 Max/Ultra.<p>All in all, happy to see some competitive moves in this space.
Windows 11 for ARM64 is quite good (with full x86/x64 emulation for everything but drivers), the adoption of ARM in laptops has been going slower than I'd expected. Hopefully SoCs like this will accelerate that process.
being faster, on paper, is not enough.<p>i have seen radeon cards with better hardware specs, end up behind cheaper and less power nvidia cards on _every_ _single_ _tested_ _gane_.<p>people using apple hardware are not only interested in pure hardware raw performance. you have an ecosystem, an operating system. sometimes, a single app makes someone buy a mac (musicians, artists...).<p>if that chip is "faster" but requires me to use windows 11 or later, you can shove it up your ass.