News Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips in Dell XPS 13 Plus laptops will nearly double battery life during video playback

[Admin]

The upcoming Dell XPS 13 laptops will use a Snapdragon X CPU, which is so much more efficient compared with Intel chips that the computers could enjoy as much as almost twice the battery life.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips in Dell XPS 13 Plus laptops will nearly double battery life during video playback : Read more

 

[ezst036]

Is this supposed to be while CPU decoding and avoiding video decoder chips? Otherwise, this seems a little perplexing.

I thought video decoding was handled by on-board video decoder chips. Nvidia has NVENC, AMD has UVD, and Intel has one too.

 

[Notton]

I checked on US dell website.
i7-1250U, 16GB, 512GB: $799
U7 155H, 16GB, 512GB: $1399

So it is cheaper, but not last-gen cheap.

The battery life improvement is good to see.

 

[edzieba]

Yes yes, very nice, same promises as every other time windows-on-ARM has been tried for the last decade.

Now, can it actually run the programs people actually want to run (i.e. all their existing suite of x86 applicaitons):
1) At all ( e.g. Win 10 on ARM's 32-bit x86 only restriction)
2) Not dog-slow

Unlike on the Apple side of things - where Apple can decide to sunset legacy APIs and tell users to suck it, and said users will indeed suck it - Windows survives of continuity of applications. Lose that, and like every prior attempt nobody will actually buy devices that can't do the job.

 

[kato128]

This seems suspiciously cherry picked here. Very nebulous saying it uses half the power playing video but no actual performance metrics. Guess we'll see how the go for real when they're in the wild

 

[sivaseemakurthi]

The price is telling me that the cpu performace is just a hype. Its giving me chrome laptop vibes.