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Specs (14"):
  • Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100) 12-core (3.4GHz Base / 4.0GHz Boost) Processor
  • 14.0" (2880 x 1800) 120Hz AMOLED Touchscreen Display
  • 16GB RAM
  • 512GB LPDDR5X eUFS
  • Qualcomm Adreno Graphics
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Ports:
    • 1x HDMI 2.1, Display connection via USB port
    • 2x USB-C 4
    • 1x USB 3.2 Type-A
  • Weight: 2.62-lbs

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Best Buy has 14" Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge Laptop (NP940XMA-KB1US) on sale for $999.99. Shipping is free.

Samsung has 14" Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge Laptop (NP940XMA-KB1US) on sale for $999.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member Dr.Wajahat for finding this deal.

Best Buy has 16" Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge Laptop (NP960XMA-KB1US) on sale for $1099.99. Shipping is free.

Samsung has 16" Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge Laptop (NP960XMA-KB1US) on sale for $1099.99. Shipping is free.

Specs (14"):
  • Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100) 12-core (3.4GHz Base / 4.0GHz Boost) Processor
  • 14.0" (2880 x 1800) 120Hz AMOLED Touchscreen Display
  • 16GB RAM
  • 512GB LPDDR5X eUFS
  • Qualcomm Adreno Graphics
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Ports:
    • 1x HDMI 2.1, Display connection via USB port
    • 2x USB-C 4
    • 1x USB 3.2 Type-A
  • Weight: 2.62-lbs

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Since people are hungry for non tech YouTuber review, I thought I'd share my findings from using the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Snapdragon Elite for a little over a week.

ARM native apps will run a bit better than on top tier AMD/Intel Laptop CPUs. There are many ARM apps out there already, mostly because this isn't the first Windows ARM device, so there's been several years of development opportunity which should accelerate as these devices get more popular.

I probably have 3-4 apps running under emulation on average. Rustdesk, Discord, and Skype. The rest I have native ARM apps for.

If an app requires a driver, such as a file system driver, it will not work under emulation, such as:

-Google Drive, requires an ARM file system driver, RaiDrive can be used as an alternative.
-Android Emulator used for Android Development on Windows (Google seems to hate ARM Windows at the moment)

Good list of known ARM Native apps:
https://armrepo.ver.lt/

Anything that runs under emulation will take a 10% to 25% performance hit.

Don't buy if you want to play modern games, which is basically hit or miss as they improve emulation/drivers. There's already been a couple of firmware and GPU updates that have improved game compatibility and performance. so it will get better over time. However these aren't really for gaming. The GPU isn't that impressive compared to current AMD/Intel offerings. So if modern gaming is important to you, avoid ARM Windows. If you only care about a specific game you can look up its compatibility and performance. Any game that uses cheat protection requires an ARM driver and can't be emulated, which no one has bothered to make yet, so those won't work.

Don't buy if you have weird/old esoteric hardware you need to support such as old printers or specialty devices that require drivers. It picked up my 8 year old wireless Brother multifunction printer/scanner with no effort, your milage may vary.

Nord and Express VPN don't have clients that work on ARM, but you can connect via the ARM OpenVPN client as a work-around to get basic functionality. Express VPN has announced they are working on a ARM native client. VPN worked fine with my standard work VPN via the built-in Windows VPN client, but if you have a specialty VPN client it may not work.

Edit: According to this article, here's the state of work-in-progress ARM clients for ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and PIA:

https://www.androidauthority.com/...n-3452723/

Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom have ARM native clients, the rest will work in emulation mode, but only Photoshop and Lightroom are currently listed in the cloud installer app. Adobe has announced the rest of the suite should be available in the cloud installer sometime in July of this year.

Development work:

I use x86 git (ARM version in beta) and it works fine in emulation.
I installed Windows Subystem for Linux which gives me an ARM Ubuntu command line, works well.
Windows Subsystem for Android has been discontinued, and not even hacked versions work with the new Snapdragon CPUs currently or ever.
Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code have native ARM builds that work great.
SQL Server Management Studio works fine in emulation.
SQL Server does not work under ARM, there's is a specialized script that has been created to install SQL Express and have it run in emulation, seems to work fine

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Edit:

SQL Server Express and Developer edition ARM compatible install builds/scripts can be found here:

https://github.com/jimm98y/MSSQLE...M1-Install

Using the custom SQL Server 2022 Developer Edition installer seems to work with some post install steps.

A.) Had to run SQL Server Management Studio as an Administrator to be able to connect via integrated Windows Authentication

B.) Had to apply the following registry modification to enable connecting via TCP via the default (1433) port:

https://github.com/jimm98y/MSSQLE...l/issues/4
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This is if you want a virtually silent, fast, light laptop with great battery life.

Of the apps I run I have not had one crash.

I purchased the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x.
+++Virtually silent, great overall performance, lightweight, doesn't get hot
+Amazing 90hz OLED touch Screen, 500 nits in SDR, and up to 1000 nits in HDR
+Amazing keyboard
+Three Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 ports
+Charges via USB-C
-Soldered memory
+Upgrading from 16GB to 32GB of memory only cost $69, compared to $400 that Apple charges.
-Very glossy/reflective screen, but works fine in my indoor lighting conditions
-No HDMI port/headphone jack/or SD Card reader, all can be remedied with a cheap dongle, I only have one dongle, a Pluggable 2.5GB Ethernet adapter with USB-C power passthrough.
+-"Good" trackpad, big, but uses mechanical instead of a haptic feedback click

This is the best Ultrabook I've owned, I've owned fanless and light Ultrabooks in the past like the LG Gram and HP Spectre x360, but they got really hot and sometimes would freeze up or have loud fans.
eUFS (embedded Universal Flash Storage) is a type of flash storage designed specifically for mobile devices. It is a combination of storage and memory, providing a fast and reliable solution for storing and accessing data in mobile devices.
The Surface Laptop 7 with X Elite has upgradable SSD.
The ASUS Vivobook S 15 with X Elite has upgradable SSD.
The Dell XPS 13 with Snapdragon X Elite also has upgradable SSD.

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Quote from Clu11152 :
Seems to be an issue with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite - unsure if there was a "fix" yet.

I just bought the Book 4 Pro 360 and returned it - the track pad was abnormally large and the screen size caused overall poor support with the hinges (multiple YouTube videos noted this and I confirmed it in Beat Buy). I ordered a Galaxy Book 4 360 instead, which shouldn't won't have the flimsy hinge support OR the Adobe/Google Drive/etc issue.

If you have a trade in, I'd recommend purchasing through Samsung vs Best Buy. I was able to apply both the education discount (warning: they use ID.me to verify this now) and I got $327 for my iPad Mini 2 (LOL, yes the 2013 iPad Mini 2).

I'll report back once mine arrives if Intel chip has these issues too....I'm going to be very upset if it does
What was edu price before trade in?
Nvm you got a different laptop.
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Quote from sbui503 :
Do we really expect a new chipset 1st gen to work perfectly at launch?

This is like Microsoft and Qualcomm's 3rd attempt at Windows on ARM and Microsoft has been pushing arm for 10+ years now since the original Windows RT. How much longer until the year of linu...I mean windows on arm?
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Wow this is a huge price drop for something released a few weeks ago.

No one wants these chips?
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Quote from hi-usa :
For the price to fall so soon means that the sales are not good
I was wondering how long before we started to see sales on these copilot+ devices. Though no Windows based laptops ever stay anywhere near their MSRP for long so this isn't a surprise is it? Even Apple laptops get discounted pretty quickly (though not to this %).
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Quote from PhonzoXD :
Wow this is a huge price drop for something released a few weeks ago.

No one wants these chips?
Open box from 780 too. I'm guessing lots of returns from people that don't understand the limitations of arm on windows.
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These ARM laptops should be priced around $500-600 for me to consider buying one for office and internet surfing. The best use for it would be in tablet form factor rather than as a laptop. Also, I'm still skeptical about their compatibility with Windows apps.
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Quote from superslickz :
I feel sorry for those who actually paid msrp for these.
Don't. I have 60 days return policy. Thanks Microsoft.
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Quote from Clu11152 :
Seems to be an issue with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite - unsure if there was a "fix" yet.

I just bought the Book 4 Pro 360 and returned it - the track pad was abnormally large and the screen size caused overall poor support with the hinges (multiple YouTube videos noted this and I confirmed it in Beat Buy). I ordered a Galaxy Book 4 360 instead, which shouldn't won't have the flimsy hinge support OR the Adobe/Google Drive/etc issue.

If you have a trade in, I'd recommend purchasing through Samsung vs Best Buy. I was able to apply both the education discount (warning: they use ID.me to verify this now) and I got $327 for my iPad Mini 2 (LOL, yes the 2013 iPad Mini 2).

I'll report back once mine arrives if Intel chip has these issues too....I'm going to be very upset if it does
You should post this deal..with EDU, and mini2, brings the price down to $560 for 14" and 16" to $670
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Quote from pelo :
That means storage is not upgradable?
It's not even ssd. Just like you won't expect any mobile phone to be upgradable, don't expect these arm based PC to be upgradable anywhere
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Quote from vsauce :
Does this still not work with Adobe, printer drivers, VPNs, and game launchers?
That's a pretty crappy rollout from Microsoft. I have to give Apple credit with their M series chips -- all of my Intel apps worked fine out of the box with that Rosetta translation layer. If Microsoft can do the same, then ARM would be the way to go for like 90% of users...the battery life alone makes it worth it. I can watch a 90-minute movie at half brightness on my MacBook Pro, and it only uses like 7% battery.
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Quote from SlickCrayon1512 :
It's not even ssd. Just like you won't expect any mobile phone to be upgradable, don't expect these arm based PC to be upgradable anywhere
The Surface Laptop 7 with X Elite has upgradable SSD.
The ASUS Vivobook S 15 with X Elite has upgradable SSD.
The Dell XPS 13 with Snapdragon X Elite also has upgradable SSD.
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Ordered this one last night. Use perks account to get additional 100 off. Total was $899. At this price its worth it.
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Quote from click2imran :
Ordered this one last night. Use perks account to get additional 100 off. Total was $899. At this price its worth it.
Curious what you will do with it and why you think now is the best time to jump into Windows-on-ARM?
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Quote from masterz13 :
That's a pretty crappy rollout from Microsoft. I have to give Apple credit with their M series chips -- all of my Intel apps worked fine out of the box with that Rosetta translation layer. If Microsoft can do the same, then ARM would be the way to go for like 90% of users...the battery life alone makes it worth it. I can watch a 90-minute movie at half brightness on my MacBook Pro, and it only uses like 7% battery.
I think he listed pretty much everything that doesn't work - apps programmed specifically to detect and block ARM (Adobe), drivers, and games with low-level anti-cheat. All of those things can never really be fixed with emulation.

Actually seems like a pretty impressive rollout by Microsoft, similar to Apple's.
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ARM chips are just experimental at this moment, someday they'll get to Apple's level.
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Quote from masterz13 :
That's a pretty crappy rollout from Microsoft. I have to give Apple credit with their M series chips -- all of my Intel apps worked fine out of the box with that Rosetta translation layer. If Microsoft can do the same, then ARM would be the way to go for like 90% of users...the battery life alone makes it worth it. I can watch a 90-minute movie at half brightness on my MacBook Pro, and it only uses like 7% battery.
Yes, it's been disappointing after reading all of the actual tests. I was really looking forward to it and was gonna trade a 13.6" M3 Air for one of the better ARM Windows machines but I may wait for the new Intel/AMD versions and see if their battery is good enough.


Issues I have with these machines

Display differences, some do have OLED and 120Hz so that's awesome here.

Battery life is a mix bag though, some will be great, some sucks. HP Omni I think was one of the worst.

Performance varies so much with the Best Performance, Recommended and fiddling.

The fan noise also varies so much between all of the machines

App support is just terrible like you said. Even some Native ARM are still not ready and NPU usage is non-existent yet for many things I want such as LLM use. LM studio was still using CPU only which affects my use. MacBook can use the GPU when I am just doing productivity work in parallel but ARM Windows will be pegged until apps are written to use the NPU.

No one seems to use the AI features. I don't use Windows for work so I won't benefit from the camera tricks and eye-following feature. The last time I had to draw a picture, never, diagram yes. Maybe I diagrams will work but there are already apps that does diagrams much better and I need to re-arrange stuff and can't be doing diagrams in a JPG!


POOR GAMING - it's basically shit, you can't even run most of the games at all. and Microsoft's own game center does not even work. WTF is Microsoft thinking.


Seems like Surface Laptop 7 is the best of the lot. I love a Surface Pro 11 but keyboard at $350 is silly for a Windows machine lol. (I did not get the M4 iPad pro Magic keyboard either due to price). It's nuts to pay 33% on a god damn keyboard when Surface Laptop 7 comes with it for free haha. Most of the time I use my Surfaced Pro as a "laptop" anyway since 2lb is hard to hand-hold for a long time.


I still love the Apple eco since I have rest of the apple gear but ARM Windows was gonna get me a 2nd machine to play around with. Will use my Surface Laptop 3 until I find something better. I got so many Windows machines I should sell them. Dell XPS 13 1260p needs to get used but it just feels...slow for some reason at times. f
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