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# Video NLI-Z9Xt4Hg

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So you want to buy a Snapdragon laptop. Congratulations! You're joining a legion of folks who love high performance, long battery life, and the love of all that is holy. Machines that actually sleep and resume properly. And the options out there just got even better thanks to second generation Snapdragon X2 chips.
because Snapdragon sponsored this video, so we won't be focused on comparative benchmarks. But instead, we want to look at just about every major laptop design that contains these processors, from more entry-level models, all the way to packages that are so top-self
that I can't even reach them without a ladder. For pricing, we'll be showing both the starting-at price as well as the configuration that we received. So, depending on your config, you might be able to snag a design you like for lower or higher price compared to exactly what we're showing. And our first machine
is the Lenovo IdeaPad 5X 2-in-1. Our configuration here comes with a Snapdragon X2+, 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, and a 1TB SSD. Its plastic and aluminum hybrid body gives it a sturdy,
but not super premium feel, but it delivers in a big way on features. Sleuthy Lenovo was afraid to leave any feature out. The screen is 14 inches, 1920x1200 foot, It's a little taller for folks who want another audio track or two on their editing timeline.
It's got touchscreen with a 60Hz refresh rate, and it's a 2-in-1, something that's become a little bit less common lately. Not everyone needs a tablet mode, but cheer me up. What about holding your laptop back on itself to get a little closer to the screen on the plane,
or to get that extra bit of airflow so when you're gaming or watching a movie in bed, you're not going to suffocate your laptop. Another nice addition on this one is the inverse notch. Rather than taking a bite out of the display, Lenovo's got this little talk-a-dore that
reduces the overall footprint of the laptop while making the device easier to open, and making room for sensors for Windows Hello, alongside a perfectly-tomulent webcam with a hardware privacy shutter. In short, I'm approving of the inclusion of this protrusion.
The bottom has a Lenovo-grade keyboard with contoured keys. It didn't end up with the finest Lenovo keyboard I've ever felt, with a much fewer feel compared to some of the others we'll be looking at. What it did end up with though
is the finest I.O., including a micro SD slot and decent sounding front facing speakers. Curiously, what is up with entry level laptops and entry level phones having better port
selection than the flagship tiny ones? Anyway, the last big one is battery life, but we're going to cover that off on all the machines together later. Spoiler though, it lasts a really long time. And a big part of that is the Snapdragon X2. It uses Qualcomm's third-generation
Orion architecture, which brings a slew of improvements over the original X1 chips, not least of which is a massive increase in both base and boost clock speeds. Snapdragon X2 is built on TSMC's N3X node and can be equipped with up to 12 prime cores,
with a separate cluster of six more efficient performance cores. Cheap, you may think, but I respect it. The neural processing unit now has nearly double the power of last gen, up to 80 AI tops, and for all the folks who get excited about power efficient gaming on the go, they got a monstrous increase in GPU performance.
Qualcomm claims that the new Arduino architecture brings a 2.3x increase in performance per watt over last gen, so when you combine that with the two years of improvements that have remained on the x86 emulation side, and, well, the results kind of speak for themselves here.
especially if you go for the X2 Elite Extreme. We'll talk a little bit more about performance later. Across the entire lineup, you get Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, and optional 5G connectivity. With all of that in mind, let's move up to the more svelte Lenovo Yogis Lens 7X.
First of all, love this deep blue color. When you can keep the fingers from solving it. And, touring the outside, we get our first hint that there's a little bit more power under the hood. Two fans. It's got a sturdy, all-metal build, so even though it's slimmer than the 2-in-1,
It actually has less flex, both overall and under the delightfully tactile keyboard. The same 5-head design returns, with Windows Hello capability, and if you loved the i-roll
on the side, you probably won't like it on this. Three USB-C ports, that's pretty nice, but that's it. No Type ports no video no headphone jack All dongles all the time baby And speakers actually even have a little less bass than its larger cousin
Sometimes size really does matter. Also, is this trackpad off-center? Is every Lenovo centered on the spacebar rather than on the screen? How have I never noticed this? Everyone else centers it on the screen.
Anyway, I guess that kind of makes sense, actually. given that that's where your hands will be, and the trackpad that's centred on the space bar is quite nice, and well improved over the last gen, which rounds out an overall build quality that is great at its starting price.
The display is pretty standout too. The model that we've got here comes with a 14-inch 1920x1200 60Hz touchscreen that is HDR500 True Black Certified. Stop that. Oh my baby. And for just $60 more, you can get a touchscreen that's 2.5K resolution, 120Hz.
I've actually seen that one with my own eyes, but it sounds like it's 100% worth the extra 60 bucks. This one can also be had with the 6-core X2 Plus with 16GB of RAM, but I gotta say, if I was spending this much for a nicer chassis, I would probably think about stepping into the realm of the Elite.
The X2 Elite chips go all the way up to the full complement of up to 18 total cores, and they also get these souped-up AdrenoGN2Us that allow these laptops to be genuine workhorses, and maybe even decent at gaming.
Despite all trying the Elite moniker, though, it should be noted that the lowest priced X2 Elite chips are just 12-core compared to 18 at the high end, so make sure you check which CPUs in the laptop you're looking at.
And if you're looking for maximum performance, the X2 Elite Extreme brings higher clock speeds on both the CPU and GPU, along with extra cache and more memory bandwidth. Not to mention a really decent GPU.
Next up is the Asus ZenBook A series. We checked out the A16 on short circuit if you want a deeper dive into this one, but here's the skinny. These laptops? They skinny. They're also super lightweight while maintaining impressive rigidity.
Which, okay, there is a bit of flex on the screen for the 16", but like, come on, it's 16". And the keyboard, which I would say matters more for day-to-day use, does have some flex,
but not enough to interfere with the typing experience. To interfere with the typing experience, there's a couple of other key things. First of all, these may be the most eye-searingly bright backlit keys that I've ever seen.
Why? I'm not using them to light my cast! It's got shrunken arrow keys, but those aren't that bad. Not compared to the biggest sin, and that is no overstatement. It's a sin. It's this.
Who in the world did this? Okay, first off, delete and insert it as a single key? Why? Second, you put that abomination on the far side of the power button?
How often are you going to accidentally put your laptop to sleep like this? And bafflingly, the 16-inch, in spite of its obviously much larger size, makes zero use of its size to resolve these issues.
Not too much credit. It does get an absolutely gargantuan version of the nice glass-topped trackpad that sounds like model. Both sides. Asus gets mediocre downward-firing speakers, but otherwise pretty strong I.O.,
considering their thinness, with a fine webcam with Windows Hello and, mercifully, HDMI. I actually had no HDMI port on my laptop for quite a while, and I just don't think I want to do that anymore,
so thanks, Asus. And the 16-inch actually gets an SD card reader as well. A really standout feature for both of them is a Seuss's Ceraluminum coating. My first impressions of this were that it feels kind of
weird, but after spending a bit more time with it, I'm just over that. It provides excellent scratch resistance and even better fingerprint resistance that just, frankly, feels completely unfair to the competition. As for the display, it's OLED with decent brightness, although I
wouldn't mind seeing a higher resolution, higher refresh rate option for the A14 with a touchscreen especially at this price point. Thankfully, the A16 does have that, except for the touchscreen part.
It is bigger, brighter, higher refresh rate, and comes equipped with up to a snapback next to Elite Extreme, which gives us a perfect opportunity to talk about performance As I foreshadowed before the Elite Extreme is all about gaming and delivers an experience that even a few short years ago I wouldn have thought we would see on onboard graphics
Obviously 40 FPS, not ideal for competitive gaming, but, god, this is Cyberpunk. And it's not even running on low or handheld presets. This is at medium details.
Throw in a little bit of upscale in here and you're off to the races. And in writer titles, you don't even need the upscale one. With that said, the X2 Plus is also capable of gaming, but it's more for writer gaming,
so make sure you choose your CPU appropriately depending on your expected use case. Moving on to CPU benchmarks and productivity. These chips kinda crazy. In Cinebench 2026, the Elite Extreme on the A16 here posts over 7500 points.
Look how thin this thing is. Now obviously not all of these chips perform exactly the same as the top spec one. The one in the Slim 7X performs about half as well in Cinebench, but it also talks about
half as much. And in more real world workloads that aren't using all cores running at full tilt, the low end chips don't even fall behind by as much. These things put up great numbers in Photoshop and SFM PEG, and are even speedy in CPU rendering
in Blender. Another really standout feature is the single-threaded performance, which contributes to overall system responsiveness more than having a ton of cores. And in this case, even the Plus hangs surprisingly close to the top tier chips.
Now, you're probably asking, where's the rest of the Puget Bench suite? Well, some software you can still run into compatibility challenges. Here's an example. Adobe Premiere runs great on our Snapdragon machines.
Flawless experience. But our premier benchmarking software? No dice. Okay, you like gaming? Great! You like Zalorant or League specifically? Well, until Riot gets around to updating their anti-cheat, you won't be playing them on these machines.
And you can craft a beautiful scene and render. But if you want to render it out, you're going to be relying on the CPU, which takes a lot longer than GPU rendering. Now, Adam was chosen for this roundup, partly because he actually daily uses a Microsoft
Surface Laptop with an X1 chip, which gives him some extra insight, and the way that he framed it when asked was, well, when I'm in a tinkery mood, I can run into trouble, but generally, it's not a problem. Anyway, our laptop tour is not over yet, and some of the most interesting models are still
coming. The Omnibus Ultra's in HP just oozes quality, from the gorgeous stone blue color to the soft touch plastic of the keys to be incredible. Test your aluminum around the edges. This thing looks sharp.
And it can feel a little sharp too. HP is really flexing their manufacturing skills here. I mean, the keyboard is probably the second best of the ones that we're looking at here, and while the short travel might
not necessarily be to your preference, it is very quiet, which is great if you don't want to bother your sleeping SL as you're shopping for gifts for them on lttstore.com really into the night. Might I recommend our always-jumpy, super-soft winter shorts?
The touchpad is similarly excellent, and very large for a 14-inch laptop, with adjustable haptics, by the way, that I think rivals some of its 3D competitors, and has one of the best webcams out of all the ones we've looked at today.
Though the default color temperature can be best described as talent. The 3K DisplayHDR TrueBlack 1000 display is vibrant, though, and it's the first in our roundup to support variable refresh rate from 30 to 120 Hz,
which can help save some battery life when you're looking at static documents. The I.O. unfortunately is a little lacking, but at least they didn't skip out on the audio jack. Lenovo and the cooling system keeps our chip cool, but seems to do so by dumping a lot of
the heat into the chassis and the keyboard, which can get a little uncomfortable during a long multi-core workload. For pricing for this guy... I don't know, HP can be kind of
all over the place, so keep an eye out for a sale, I guess? We like this one a lot, but let's move on from this to something a little more unique. ASUS's ProArt lineup is a common
fixture on our channel because it's designed for creators, and I'm, well, a creator. I create stuff and so does Asus They created this It not a laptop It actually a tablet both for better and in some cases for worse It 14 inches with a 3K ASUS Lumina Pro OLED display with 144Hz refresh rate and TrueBlack 1000 certification
Like, it's gorgeous. It's been a while since I've held a tall tablet, and I can kind of see why the form factor has trended a little more square. The display comes factory calibrated, which is great for even color sensitive work, but
what isn't great so much is the I.O. Two USB 4 ports and an SD card reader and that is it. Making it a little hard to recommend this as like a serious work machine.
There is a stylus though that you can stash in the folio cover. The kickstand is rigid enough to support a whole bunch of different angles, so that's pretty cool. As for the speakers, they sound like tablet speakers.
But, we did include this thing for a reason, and that reason is it has almost the same powerful Elite X2 processor as the Omnibook that we just looked at, and yet in this shockingly slim profile.
Because of the thinness, though, some compromises were made. Performance is good, but it doesn't have a ton of cooling, so it's not as good as you'd probably want from a chip of this caliber. I'm going to put it over here, and I'm going to grab the HP Elite Book.
Let's get this out of the way up front. This is an Elite Book, and Elite Books are expensive. But, hey, you're not supposed to be the one paying for it. You're bosses, and, like, f*** bosses, am I right?
Yeah! Yeah! I mean, the least the guy can do is buy you a nice laptop, and this is a nice laptop. It comes with HP Wolf Security, easier deployment tools and other organizational management
software, and its design features are both sturdy and delightfully fine. Which is perfect when you just want to get real work done. I actually quite like this machine.
Not for any reason, but because there's no reason to hate it. The anti-glare coating helps with that too. Man, that's great. And, with this kind of battery life, I'll be not hating it for a really, really long time. Let's talk about that.
As expected, battery life across the entire lineup is, simply put, excellent, especially on the X2 Plus devices. The Asus ProArt does fall a little bit behind, but still gets 13 hours of battery life in our longevity test,
and that's on a tablet form factor. Meanwhile, the HP Elitebook puts up a 19-plus hour result, making it our battery champ when it comes to light use.
I do mean light, guys. We have seen similar battery life results before, but in the past, that's been some devices that have larger, heavier batteries. As the longevity under load, even in our stress test, we're still getting really impressive life out of these things.
Especially on the ProArt, which took a little bit of investigation. Turns out it's running a modified power preset to keep from clicking itself due to its limited cooling, so we'll ignore that one. But even then, the battery life of these devices pretty much corresponds to the performance tier of the chip inside and the physical size of their batteries.
And pretty much all of them manage Cinebench on loop for over an hour, or even in some cases, over 90 minutes. And there was one that did almost two hours, wasn't there? Yeah, yeah, with the 5X.
This thing is the whole freaking package, isn't it? Now, it's worth noting there is one CPU tier that we weren't able to look at today, the 10 core. it's going to be the highest end of the X2 Pluses, so you can expect it to fall somewhere between
the two Logus Slim devices that we looked at today. Keep an eye out, because maybe we'll do some more coverage on this stuff in the future if you guys like this. Either way, the major takeaway should be that with Snapdragon and with all these machines having objectively great battery life and
performance, not to mention benefiting from the 12-com experience with wireless chipsets, there's something here for everyone. We're going to have all these machines linked down below. I'm I'm really excited to see more designs in the ultra-budget category later this year
with the launch of Snapdragon C. But that's it for today. Thanks again to Qualcomm for sponsoring this video, and especially for helping us get our hands on all of these freaking laptops. Getting together all these machines for roundups like this is harder than you'd probably think.
Adam, maybe you should just get a screen grab of some of the email chain links. Laptop vendors don't love roundups. But we do. We think they're great. So let us know if there's any other ones you'd like to see in the comments below.