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imagine this if you will a PC that

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doesn't have an Intel or an AMD processor but is actually pretty

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good just imagine it although Windows on arm has been around for a while the

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performance just hasn't been good enough for it to be an attractive option but

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now we're seeing the Snapdragon X processors from Qualcomm starting to hit

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the market going head-to-head with Apple's M series Qualcomm is even

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claiming the Snapdragon X Elite soundly beats Apple's M3 so can this chip make

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Windows laptops a compelling buy for folks that might be otherwise

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considering a Mac and why do we even need an arm chip for Windows anyway well

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one of the biggest advantages of arm is that arm chips tend to be more power

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efficient than those using the long serving x86 architecture which is a big

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part of the reason you see it used so often in phones where battery life is a

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key concern this isn't universally true

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as it's certainly possible to have arm chips that use lots of power like in

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some supercomputers but keep in mind that x86 was introduced way back in 1978

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as a desktop platform where power consumption wasn't nearly as big of an

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issue but using a different architecture that focuses on efficiency means that

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compatibility and performance can suffer and those are indeed big reasons why

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Windows on arm has struggled to gain popularity in the marketplace so how is

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snapdragon X different well similar to when Apple first unveiled its M series

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Apple silicon to the world Qualcomm is hammering home the point that testing

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shows it's faster than Intel's laptop chips specifically faster than their

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current core Ultra 7 offering combined with their performance comparisons to

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the Apple M3 it's a pretty clear signal that Qualcomm and Microsoft aren't

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content to let Apple run away with the performance Crown the snap dragon X

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lineup is built on a 4 nmet process and has between 10 and 12 high performance

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depending on the model similarly to the Apple M3 Max which is built on a 3

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nanometer process despite these similarities there's one specific area

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where Microsoft is hoping Snapdragon X will clearly beat apple and we'll tell

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come as a surprise to many of you that Microsoft is leaning on Snapdragon X to

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give it a big advantage in the AI space Qualcomm already has experience building

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neural processing units or npus into its previous chips and the Snapdragon X

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lineup has npus that can deliver 45 trillion operations per second or tops

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Microsoft's effort to get AI enabled Windows features into everyone's hot

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little hands is currently taking the form of a lineup of PCS the company is

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calling co-pilot plus which require npus

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that can deliver at least 40 tops and Snapdragon X is technically the first to

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Market with that level of performance even when when you include Apple silicon

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of course this doesn't mean that Intel and AMD aren't trying to play catchup

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with both companies looking to release compatible CPUs later this year and it

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also doesn't mean that everyone will necessarily Embrace AI features the

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overall sentiment around Aid driven Tech right now is relatively mixed and there

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doesn't yet appear to be a killer app that would compel people to run to their

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local Best Buy in drobes for a Snapdragon X laptop to run it but even

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if AI isn't your or bag it does appear

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that Snapdragon X represents a pretty significant Leap Forward compared to the

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underpowered arm laptop chips of yesty year although emulating native x86 app

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still comes with a performance penalty just as it does on Apple the more

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powerful Hardware should make emulation less of a pain although early reviews

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suggest it still struggles in some applications but the more exciting news

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on this front is that with this big push for arm we're seeing more native arm

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versions of software being developed notably Adobe has released popular

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programs for creatives like Photoshop and Lightroom on arm which could end up

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boosting the appeal of a chip like the Snapdragon X as a true competitor to

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Apple silicon as MacBooks have been targeted at creators for quite a long

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time there have even been some impressive gaming results According to

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some reviewers even though the Snapdragon X isn't really being marketed

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as a gaming chip for us the bigger implication here is that emulation

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performance of non-armed programs might end up being a pleasant surprise even

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shortly after launch however one very important caveat is that unlike Apple

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silicon there isn't one company controlling the whole hardware and

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software stack meaning hiccups may be more likely so while we're excited about

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what Snapdragon X can do I wouldn't necessarily run out to be one of the

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first people to buy one of these new laptops when they hit store shelves this

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month instead maybe I'd wait a bit and

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