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I asked chatgpt to summarize what Qualcomm promised vs what they delivered. While we need to take the output of chathpt with a grain of salt (don't be like that one lawyer who had chtgpt write his briefs for him), what's listed below is what I've seen in the review YTs.

Over promising on the benchmarks, gaming compatibility battery life being measured in days not hours, and AI (this I think is mostly a MS failure). Post 12 where I linked that video touches upon these items in greater details.


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I'd love to see the sales numbers on laptops between AMD, Intel and Qualcomm.
 
Read the comments section of

It's a YouTube short and it talks about how great a laptop is and then sometime later it says it's a Snapdragon.

People in the comments rag on Snapdragon endlessly.
 
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Here's a comparison of Lunar Lake to Snapdragon. He goes over all of the factors in deciding on one or the other or neither. Guess what his conclusion is. Max Tech did a similar video as well.

 
Well, they're getting hit by M4, AMD, Intel and nVidia fans so it's a pile on.
Its a problem of their own doing, paying influencer to talk up a product that really isn't better then the competition and failed to fulfill the lofty promises Qualcomm made
 
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As a side note, I really do hate how many of the tech people publish a paid video, and they say how they'll still be objective and that the paying company has no say in the production or content, yet they fall over themselves in stating how great the product is. Bambu is a company that does this, and while their 3d printers are great, the overall tone, verbiage and content of those paid videos are just over the top.

In the video I posted, there was a brief shot of Linus Tech Tips as one of those influencers who promoted the snapdragon and his YT was basically an 11 minute advertisement that Qualcomm paid them to produce.

While there's potential for ARM on windows and the competition is good for both intel and amd, I think these over the top videos only impact LTT's reputation as an objective reviewer, but then since Linus already is investor in Framework, I don't consider the channel terribly objective and unbiased.
 
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As a side note, I really do hate how many of the tech people publish a paid video, and they say how they'll still be objective and that the paying company has no say in the production or content, yet they fall over themselves in stating how great the product is. Bambu is a company that does this, and while their 3d printers are great, the overall tone, verbiage and content of those paid videos are just over the top.

In the video I posted, there was a brief shot of Linus Tech Tips as one of those influencers who promoted the snapdragon and his YT was basically an 11 minute advertisement that Qualcomm paid them to produce.

While there's potential for ARM on windows and the competition is good for both intel and amd, I think these over the top videos only impact LTT's reputation as an objective reviewer, but then since Linus already is investor in Framework, I don't consider the channel terribly objective and unbiased.

You just have to factor it into the review and look at the objective data as opposed to the subjective stuff.

I think that Max Tech is an influencer for Asus on and off as he gives their products a lot of praise but he's declared M4 the winner over Asus products when doing direct comparisons.

I think that it's human that you praise companies that pay you.

It's not the case in the running shoe world because the people that review shoes get them from a variety of manufacturers - they don't get money so much as free products - you can do that with shoes but not for computers.
 
I'll just leave this here :p

Our son uses Copilot at work and he says that it's great for getting more work done with less effort.

I've tried Copilot on the web and much prefer Google AI.

I've tried Copilot on the Lenovo Yoga and it just seems to get stuff off the web.

The practical use of the Copilot button on the laptop would be to remap it to something I'd use.
 
Our son uses Copilot at work and he says that it's great for getting more work done with less effort.
I havn't tried copilot. for work, help with spreadsheets, or excel. I did ask it to write a python script, and I compared it to a python script chatgpt wrote and how I would have produced it. It didn't work, but it was better written, if that makes sense. I just had to fix a few things.

I'm just about all in with chatgpt, I tried Grok, and left me scratching my head. I've also been playing with ollama on my mac but so far I'm much more happier with chatgpt.
 
If they were really committed to it, they'd drop x86 support like Apple did.

With the amount of corporate x86 hardware out there, I don’t see this happening in a hurry.
It is more of a case of slowly encouraging change.
 
With the amount of corporate x86 hardware out there, I don’t see this happening in a hurry.
It is more of a case of slowly encouraging change.
Exactly, my organization still has a lot of windows 10 PCs, never mind moving to a whole different architecture. With this move to windows 11, we're finding a number of our departmental apps for human resources, and payroll to have some level of compatibility issues. I can't imagine them wanting a completely different architecture that would break more apps, and largely cost way more money to resolve.
 
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