71-90K Does anyone own Snapdragon laptops?

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agentmilo

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I've been looking into these since quite a while now. Mainly to use a full windows OS laptop with great battery life. I'm not worried about compatibility as I have a workstation desktop and Laptop for that stuff. Wanted something portable for for lighter tasks, watching movies, general browsing etc. So more or less to replace an Ipad.

Does anyone here have enough experience with Snapdragon laptops? How are they faring for you and your use case?

Edit: Ability to use a pen / stylus would be fantastic, so Samsung and Asus models look good on paper for me. Samsung mainly because they use Wacom's digitizer.

A Thinkpad with Wacom digitizer would've been my endgame!
 
One of my clients has it, but mainly used for mails. Its the Surface laptop

Another is planning to procure the HP Omnibook X for mails. Others there have taken the MBA M4 ones - 13.3 & 15.6

Let me know what you want me to check.
 
Thanks Vivek, I mainly wanted to know how the experience was in our day to day. Minus perfect compatibility with x86-64 apps, is the OS actually fully mature and reliable? Can one use it confidently as a daily driver? I've read about people having trouble with their Arm laptops slowing down, and the fan kicking up / battery randomly depleting faster despite not doing anything particularly intense / overheating randomly etc etc. Some people claim battery life in high double digits, while some have issues passing even the mid single digits.

This makes me think that the OS is still not optimized properly. I wanted to know if people have these kinds of issues.
 
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One of my friends had bought Acer Swift Go 14 AI featuring Snapdragon X plus. He has got a fantastic deal on Flipkart and I too was tempted to get that model. But by the time I did my research on whether the development tools that I use would be compatible with that, the deal expired and never really came back. Anyways, my friend is using the same for normal document, browing and multimedia work and has not faced any major issues as such. The battery life is more than 10 hours (lesser than the claimed figure) and the cpu power and Ram seems to be adequate.
 
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I was looking to buying one too. Though my use case apart from media consumption is dipping my feet into 2d game dev on Godot or Unity as a hobby. I think Unity released a native arm version, didn't check for Godot or other engines.

The overall battery life and performance does seem tempting but ultimately I think I'll wait for the softwares to mature more. Snapdragon may also release newer chips later in the year.
 
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One of my friends had bought Acer Swift Go 14 AI featuring Snapdragon X plus. He has got a fantastic deal on Flipkart and I too was tempted to get that model. But by the time I did my research on whether the development tools that I use would be compatible with that, the deal expired and never really came back. Anyways, my friend is using the same for normal document, browing and multimedia work and has not faced any major issues as such. The battery life is more than 10 hours (lesser than the claimed figure) and the cpu power and Ram seems to be adequate.
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10 hours is still fantastic- better than any tablets I've owned. Perhaps the next BBD this year would be a good time to check for offers.

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Wouldnt it be a bit of gamble, getting an arm laptop for gamedev?
 
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