Prycedin via eBay has
HP OmniBook X AI Laptop (Refurbished, 14-fe0013dx) on sale listed below
from $449.
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Specs:
- Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100 3.4GHz Processor
- 14" 2240x1400 IPS 300 nits Touchscreen Display
- 16GB LPDDR5x-8448 MT/s Memory
- 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD
- Qualcomm Adreno Integrated Graphics
- 802.11ax Wireless LAN + Bluetooth 5.3
- Backlit Keyboard
- 3-cell, 59Wh Li-ion Battery
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports
- 1x USB Type-A 10Gbps signaling rate
- 2x USB Type-C 10Gbps signaling rate (USB Power Delivery 3.0, DisplayPort 1.4a, HP Sleep and Charge)
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Snapdragon X Elite is roughly similar to the Apple M3. Which is to say that it solves a lot of Windows laptop problems and delivers a dramatically better experience than what came before.
For one, phantom drain is gone. The machine no longer randomly 'wakes' from sleep while closed and drains big chunks of battery life. Every Snapdragon X laptop has a top-tier WiFi chip - no need to dig into the specs to make sure the OEM is using Intel WiFi and not some Realtek crap.
Speaking of sleep, the machine reliably goes to sleep as soon as the lid is closed. No weird problems with that - problems with that are sadly typical of Windows laptops - to the point where OEMs have taken to blanking the screen and spinning down the fan to hide the issue from users - they find it out when they go to use their computer and the battery dropped 40%.
Back to Realtek, a plague of budget laptops - but not this one. The audio drivers for Snapdragon are written against the modern Windows driver. All good.
Energy efficiency is excellent. Battery life is also very good - though this can vary model to model, depending on the size of the battery and all that.
Performance - like the M3-era Macs - is all there. Snappy, fast, excellent.
Try to consider that not everyone is like you. These machines offer an excellent experience for people who are not trying to use a consumer laptop to play video games or run very demanding applications that do not offer a native ARM build (which is less and less of a thing - Adobe updated a while ago)
Qualcomm pushed everything upstream ages ago. Support will vary distro to distro - the Linux on ARM situation isn't super great, with lots of packages being weirdly AMD64-only - but the core components of Snapdragon X work on any remotely-modern kernel.
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Snapdragon X Elite is roughly similar to the Apple M3. Which is to say that it solves a lot of Windows laptop problems and delivers a dramatically better experience than what came before.
For one, phantom drain is gone. The machine no longer randomly 'wakes' from sleep while closed and drains big chunks of battery life. Every Snapdragon X laptop has a top-tier WiFi chip - no need to dig into the specs to make sure the OEM is using Intel WiFi and not some Realtek crap.
Speaking of sleep, the machine reliably goes to sleep as soon as the lid is closed. No weird problems with that - problems with that are sadly typical of Windows laptops - to the point where OEMs have taken to blanking the screen and spinning down the fan to hide the issue from users - they find it out when they go to use their computer and the battery dropped 40%.
Back to Realtek, a plague of budget laptops - but not this one. The audio drivers for Snapdragon are written against the modern Windows driver. All good.
Energy efficiency is excellent. Battery life is also very good - though this can vary model to model, depending on the size of the battery and all that.
Performance - like the M3-era Macs - is all there. Snappy, fast, excellent.
Try to consider that not everyone is like you. These machines offer an excellent experience for people who are not trying to use a consumer laptop to play video games or run very demanding applications that do not offer a native ARM build (which is less and less of a thing - Adobe updated a while ago)
Curious to hear any Linux user experiences
don't bother, a work in progress means pain in the ass unless you have lots of time
I'm in for 1. I decided to spend the extra $20 for the Certified Refurbished with the 2-year warranty.
I found a new CB site offering 3% back. But it looks like it may be $10 max. But with the sign up bonus and referral code, looks like that will end up getting me $20 - $30 in CB. I'm also getting 3% back with my PayPal card. I couldn't find any other options to make the deal more slick.
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Snapdragon X Elite is roughly similar to the Apple M3. Which is to say that it solves a lot of Windows laptop problems and delivers a dramatically better experience than what came before.
For one, phantom drain is gone. The machine no longer randomly 'wakes' from sleep while closed and drains big chunks of battery life. Every Snapdragon X laptop has a top-tier WiFi chip - no need to dig into the specs to make sure the OEM is using Intel WiFi and not some Realtek crap.
Speaking of sleep, the machine reliably goes to sleep as soon as the lid is closed. No weird problems with that - problems with that are sadly typical of Windows laptops - to the point where OEMs have taken to blanking the screen and spinning down the fan to hide the issue from users - they find it out when they go to use their computer and the battery dropped 40%.
Back to Realtek, a plague of budget laptops - but not this one. The audio drivers for Snapdragon are written against the modern Windows driver. All good.
Energy efficiency is excellent. Battery life is also very good - though this can vary model to model, depending on the size of the battery and all that.
Performance - like the M3-era Macs - is all there. Snappy, fast, excellent.
Try to consider that not everyone is like you. These machines offer an excellent experience for people who are not trying to use a consumer laptop to play video games or run very demanding applications that do not offer a native ARM build (which is less and less of a thing - Adobe updated a while ago)
Qualcomm pushed everything upstream ages ago. Support will vary distro to distro - the Linux on ARM situation isn't super great, with lots of packages being weirdly AMD64-only - but the core components of Snapdragon X work on any remotely-modern kernel.
-Sound
-Thunderbolt ports
-GPU
-NPU
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