Question is the Lenovo IdeaPad Snapdragon 8cx ("gen1") still worth buying in 2024?

[StiffyZA]

I'm thinking about buying the following Lenovo IdeaPad 5G 14Q8X05 with the 8CX processor:

https://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/IdeaPad_5G_14Q8X05?M=82KF000PSA

Qualcomm® Snapdragon® 8cx (8C, 8x Kryo 495 @ 2.84GHz)

Integrated Qualcomm® Adreno™ 680 GPU

8GB Soldered LPDDR4x 1866

I can buy it for the equivalent of about US$330 brand new, sealed in the box

Not a allot of laptops at that price comes with a 1080P IPS display, backlit keyboard, IR webcam, 512GB SSD, Win 11 Pro and a 5G modem.

I'm not planning on doing heavy stuff on the laptop, and will be used for Internet browsing, watching videos, doing some MS Office work and maybe playing some older game titles that was originally designed for Windows RT, which should run natively. All the apps that I am planning of running will be native for Windows on ARM,

Or do you reckon it's a bad deal @ US$330 brand new sealed in the box? (It was listed for US$1,300 when it was introduced to market in November 2021)

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

FOr $330 it seems a good deal. The laptop itself is just okay, looking at reviews. Performance can be sluggish, and with 8gb of ram, you're gonna have issues with just a few Chrome tabs open.

 

[StiffyZA]

FOr $330 it seems a good deal. The laptop itself is just okay, looking at reviews. Performance can be sluggish, and with 8gb of ram, you're gonna have issues with just a few Chrome tabs open.

Thanks for your input. Most of the reviews I could find for 8cx processors are from 2019 - 2021, when there were way less apps running natively, and lots of the reviews where done using emulated apps. I think it's best I go check it out in-store and run some tests myself before purchasing. It will also be interesting to see how the system performs on the latest version of Win 11 on arm.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Good call.

Let us know how that pans out!