Till we see a proper review of the SnapDragon Elite chip performance, I feel its premature to say that it will be a great chip. Great battery life, I am pretty sure. But will the same chip scale on the desktop with lesser consideration for low power, its questionable. The performance is also very dependent on MS to make sure Windows run nicely with ARM based SOC, and I feel the first gen chips are going to be more like an experiment, i.e. I am not expecting a smooth experience.
I am not confident in great battery life, because of the missing information in the statements…
Cristiano Amon claims great energy efficiency (battery life) in video playback or AI tasks, but not in other use cases (web browsing, word/excel usages,…).
Therefore, it is likely that for all other use cases than video/AI, battery life won’t be better, and maybe even worse as otherwise that is something they would have been proud to speak about…
Also, by now, less than 15 days from PC hardware availability, it is a red flag to me that independant Youtube reviewers didn’t yet get their hands on Snapdragon X Elite PCs and/or not yet allowed to publish independant reviews : if the independent tests were extremely good, you would want potential buyers to be aware of that long in advance (by making sure that well respected Youtubers publicy confirm it), to increase the probability that the potential buyers postpone the purchase of an Intel/AMD computer and instead that they save their money to buy a Snapdragon X Elite PC…
The fact that there isn’t such review recall previous Snapdragon 8cx launches, and before that, previous Snapdragon 835,… which unfortunately is not a good sign…