Leaked internal presentations by Dell about upcoming laptop models continue to give up interesting nuggets.This time, the slide points out that Qualcomm's Snapdragon X processors are cheaper and consume less energy than all Intel's recent chips, including Meteor Lake. In some cases, the battery life of a comparable laptop can be extended by as much as 98%. And all that is done with a chip that is half the price.

Dell's presentation of the issue was discovered by Videocardz just a few days ago, also pointing to the dividing line between Intel and Qualcomm for the upcoming laptop. It was over 300 pages long and bound to have lots of juicy information. The first thing on the note was Dell's plan to rapidly update its laptop model every year with Intel's upcoming range of architectures, but it's Iceberg

Dell is testing the different configurations of laptops, comparing the energy consumption of Arm-based Snapdragon X chips to Intel's Alder Lake and Meteor Lake Cpus. It's a good idea. On platforms with Qualcomm processors, local video playback (i.e., running movies from an SSD) requires half the power of an equivalent Alder Lake chip.Compared to just 11 hours on an Intel laptop, the playback time is a little over 21 hours.

It's a similar story for movie streaming, with Qualcomm's chip at least 68% in terms of battery life compared to the best Alder Lake laptops, which suggests that Qualcomm's chip is more energy efficient than Meteor Lake and that the battery life can vary from Core Ultra7 platform to Core Ultra7 platform depending on the application. It is consistent with the claim that it is more than 40-100% longer than the original form.

Processors based on the Arm architecture are well known for being extremely energy efficient because they are often used in situations where low power is absolutely necessary, such as smartphones, embedded systems, and wearable devices. Qualcomm has many years of experience in these areas, so it's not surprising that its Snapdragon X chip is just as light power.

What might be surprising is that Qualcomm is significantly lowering Intel's price, even though it's an entirely new design. Dell estimated that it would have to payま10 for the 145-core Snapdragon X Plus chip, and推定12 for the 1360-core i7 196p chip. 

Even if Intel's processors are particularly faster than Qualcomm's products, their price will obviously be very attractive to Dell. Budget and mainstream laptops usually have a small profit margin, so something that can be used to slicebom100-150 off the bom (bill of materials) snaps

But the end consumer will not see a significantly lower price. The long document also states that an XPS13 laptop with Snapdragon will cost little1,289 or less due to materials, software, warranty, etc. — about 100 lower than an equivalent Intel build, so

Dell's presentation shows that the M2Macbook Air will costド1,199 with 8GB RAM, 1,199gb SDD models. It's a clear indication that Apple is a major competitor, noting that Apple is sold in the United States. The target customers of the Snapdragon X laptop ("young metropolitan") are probably not going to worry about the price difference of a few hundred dollars, but instead look to the parts, especially when consuming media.

Traditionally, it's always meant to get a Macbook, but Dell is clearly helping to challenge the idea. We believe that there is a suitable product.

Snapdragon X's early views indicate that the chip can perfectly handle windows-based applications and games like its competitors, and while Qualcomm's performance claims have not yet been independently tested, low power consumption and competitive pricing should mean that some really good laptops will appear this year. There is.

If they sell enough, the fourth competitor in the notebook chip market should help lower prices as each vendor tries to pull customers away from the usual crowd.

I am ambivalent about 2024 being the year of the AIPAC, but it is becoming increasingly sold by being the year of the Arm PC. It's clear that I'm not the only one, as MediaTek and Nvidia are rumored to be joining the party.