Samsung’s Snapdragon X Elite-Powered Laptop Won’t Be Cheap Against Apple’s Equivalents
Samsung’s Snapdragon X Elite-Powered Laptop Won’t Be Cheap Against Apple’s Equivalents
While Samsung’s presence in the Windows PC market has been minuscule, it maintains a presence with laptops powered by ARM-based SoCs instead of the traditional x86 offerings from Intel or AMD. The upcoming entry in the form of Galaxy Book4 Edge will feature the highly anticipated Snapdragon X Elite SoCs, but it’s not going to be cheap.
As reported by WinFuture (via Videocardz), the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge is a 14-inch laptop that features 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD, with the former soldered to the motherboard – common in ultra-thin laptops. On paper, the specs look relatively modest, though the CPU is where the real deal lies. It will be powered by a Snapdragon X Elite SoC with 12 cores (presumably 8P+4E, based on earlier leaks), and both Qualcomm and Samsung have a common competitor – Apple, and its M-series MacBooks.
One of the biggest reasons to switch to ARM-based processors is its efficiency. The Galaxy Book4 series already features Intel-powered models like the Book4 Pro, though the Edge model will most likely get even better battery life than that – we know that Intel’s Meteor Lake chips can already squeeze a lot of runtime even though it’s not quite on the MacBook levels, but it’s reasonably close. The Snapdragon chip may close that gap.
However, this laptop won’t come cheap. WinFuture claims the Galaxy Book4 Edge will have “no price advantage”, at least for the initial launch price. The outlet expects the pricing to fall in EUR 1,800 (~RM9,205), which happens to be in the same ballpark as the MacBook Air with identical memory configuration.
Pokdepinion: Time to see if SDX-powered laptops can finally get the elusive “all-day battery life” that Windows laptops have longed for.
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