Borked

Qualcomm has unexpectedly pulled its Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows, a reference platform intended for developers to build applications for Windows on Arm.

Battery life to rival the sun

Lenovo has begun the rollout of its business-centric ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptop. The promotional materials boast an eye-watering 29 hours of battery life.

Neat laptop paired up with Snapdragon X Elite SoC

TUXEDO Computers aims to bring Qualcomm Snapdragon X SoCs to the Linux platform and has recently unveiled such a laptop.

And the Tame Apple Press is furious

Justin Long, the actor known for playing the Mac guy in Apple's mid-2000s ad campaign has escaped the cult and is promoting new Windows laptops from Qualcomm.

20 systems, big OEMs, and available June 18

Snapdragon X Elite based on Oryon cores and Nuvia acquisition has finally reached its pinnacle moment. Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X platform as a heart of a Copilot+ PC, OEM designs and availability a day before Microsoft Build. To sum it up, there will be seven major OEMs, with twenty systems in the first wave, available for preorder today, and shipping June 18.

Coming in 14- and 16-inch sizes

Since Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X Elite platform, we had plenty of leaks from manufacturers ready to hop on that Windows on ARM train with the new SoC, and the latest one comes from Samsung in the form of Galaxy Book4 Edge, which will be available in 14- and 16-inch sizes.

Asus Vietnam jumps the gun

Asus Vietnam has leaked its own version of the laptop that will be based on Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X Elite SoC. Asus decided to go with the Vivobook S 15 OLED design, which puts it in a bit of a premium segment with an OLED screen.

Coming alongside Snapdragon X Elite in mid-2024

As expected, Qualcomm shared a bit more details about its upcoming Snapdragon X Series platform and the Snapdragon X Plus SoC, a 10-core version based on Oryon CPU architecture. The Snapdragon X Plus is expected to come in OEM devices starting mid-2024, alongside Snapdragon X Elite-based devices.

Could be officially unveiled on April 20

Some Lenovo laptops with the Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X SoC have been spotted online, including the Yoga Slim 7 14 and Thinkpad T14s. According to Qualcomm, these could be unveiled at the Lenovo Tech World '24 keynote on April 20th.

12-core Snapdragon X Elite X1E78100 SoC

The newest listing in the Geekbench database detailed a rather interesting Lenovo laptop that comes with Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X Elite SoC based on 4nm Oryon CPU cores.