The best of the bunch: Surface laptop 7 15-inch, Dell latitude 7455, and Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x. The SSDs can be upgraded on all these models, so you can buy the lowest SSD storage for each laptop. Good port selection on all of them. The worst of the bunch: HP Omnibook, Dell XPS 13 9345, and Samsung Galaxy book 4x. Either bad ports, bad specs, or bad TDP that hinders performance.

M4 chip is just kind of overkill on limited iPad OS that doesn't offer any significant benefit over full fledged MacOS. iPad Air seems reasonable.

After considering all the specs for some days I would go for Acer Vivobook S15. It has 120Hz, a relatively good port selection, I can connect an external monitor without port replicator. It has no touch, but I found myself never using that anyways. About battery life I read that it is a bit lower than the Lenovo, but maybe it is a driver thing. As right now (per what I have read) the igpu bottlenecks the snapdragon, it is mostly not important which tier you choose, all are mostly slowed down by the graaphics. The chip can address 64GB RAM, but 64GB is not available yet. So I wait for the next gen with stronger graphics (or dedicated graphics) and 64GB RAM, as right now my notbook is just fine for what i am currently doing.

Will this work with Mac keyboard and trackpad?

I have a small flat screen, I had it hooked up to an Xbox 360 but I've moved the Xbox to a bigger TV. It doesn't have cable hooked up because when the cable switched over to digital, the cable company was very stingy with the converter boxes and didn't give us enough for all our TVs, and several of the boxes they did give us have failed and been returned. So that got me thinking, I want a gaming PC, and I'll need a monitor for that, and that TV isn't being used, anyway that's the thought process that got me here. I'm not a big tech guy so thanks for the video, I'll check out the other video as well, before making a decision.

Got Lenovo Yoga 7X, 32 gig, 1 tb ssd, WinPro11, looking to dual boot it.

Nice comparison video ❤

who is MKBHD????

One of the best reviews and comarison I have seen; stright to the point; fantastic sir; Thanks; Subscribed.

I never knew there was a fan in the AW3225QF because it’s inaudible and I have very sensitive ears. More importantly though there is no coil whine which is far more of an irritating dealbreaker for me.

So helpful and concise! Thank you.

Thanks !

I ranked them nearly exactly like you did. Microsoft 15" Surface Laptop 7 Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 16" Lenovo Yoga Slim X

The conclusions here are all skewed for everyone in Europe, especially UK 1)Dell AW is about £910 and available 2) Asus out of stock in UK and only available from 1 place and £1400 delivered - plus you play roulette with Asus Warranty cover (see Gamer Nexus for the exposé on their scam warranty service) 3) MSI out of stock too and about £1350ish We're talking £490 difference from Dell (cheapest) to Asus (most expensive) so the question that should be asked is, is the asus or MSI worth £400+ more? I'm not sure it is for minimal performance differences..

This, this is quality tech consumer content 🙂‍↕️

Lenovo is the most interesting on the list if they can cripple windows. They do a good job of overriding Microsoft's predatory software. Spyware with a glossy interface.

Samsung isn't lying about long battery life. I have my book S, and i can forget about battery life. Windows is what sucks your resources like a vampire.

Most useful video on Snapdragon laptops!

I'm stuck between the 15" Surface Laptop 7 and the Lenovo Yoga. Super excited for these ARM based Windows devices

Excelent!

Sorry but that review misses one of the most important part. They are made for Copilot+ so the target audience are developers which means local LLMs are the selling points. If you wanna use and train them the more RAM the better. So every option under 32GB Ram shouldnt be considered at all. If you want a consumer laptop there is no argument currently to use a Snapdragon

In Australia the MSI is $ 2199, the ASUS $2729 and the Dell $1519 an easy choice for me based on price

Just get samsung 14inch with 50 inch 4k tv 😂😂😂😂. No brainer except for battery . It has better display , touch , cpu variant and priced almost lowest if you deduct 4k tv .

Imo the release is kinda a mess Of the 12 devices, there's only 3 devices here i'd rec which are the Acer Swift 14 AI & Vivobook S15 for the avg normies and the Surface Laptop 7 for the best snapdragon experience. I wouldnt even bother w/ everything else released in the early gen. So much potential wasted by the hardware manufactures imo. Snapdragon x release deserved better. SUMMARY Acer Swift 14 AI: Absolutely ideally average in that it does everything just fine including price & specs, but nothing exciting, still an easy recommend Asus: Vivobook S15 avg build quality, excellent IO, Good display terrible trackpad layout, avg performance specs, another solid machine for normies Dell: XPS 13 is the most disappointing of the new releases just terrible design overall and overpriced, Dell is not going to sell any of these.... Clearly just trying to burn the XPS line & heritage.... Inspiron & Lattiudes are bascially for normies but underspecced and below avg build quality, IO is fine, but nothing the other products cant do better... Samsung: Let us down as usual w/ their Book 4 Edge making a device thats massive yet underspecced, built good upon initial impression until you actually push down on it and see it bend, nothing outstanding, seems to already be buggy according to early reviews. Id be interested in if LG competition makes one tbh HP: Omni/Elite book seems promising but idk why they gave it the lowest end Elite chips, ok battery size, and has the worst screen of all of the releases. Kinda overpriced for what they are Lenovo: Yoga Slim 7X Nearly perfect everything, good display but only 90hz , but absolutely garbanzo trash IO layout... Thinkpad T14S Gen 6 is overall the better machine but underspecced, and wildly overpriced.... Microsoft: Surface Pro is Only tablet here but terrible IO and somehow trash battery... idk what Microsoft is thinking.... Surface Laptop 7, probably the best laptop out here minor price premium but still good pricing esp for build quality, cab be specced out seemingly high-ish w/ good display & fair IO.

thats the choice I'm looking to make very soon....

you can also run 1080@75hz btw

Great review Thank you

And if you do not compare with prices in mind? Here in Sweden we have almost the same prices between asus and msi

Hey, thanks for all this amazing info! I’ve heard some apps such as Google Drive don’t work on Snapdragon yet… can you tell us some more about app compatibility please?

Great review! So what is the best laptop for this year Snapdragon that has great storage and is fast?

Which one has a physical SIM card slot?

How many external displays do they support?

Iam looking for a OLED laptop with non touch with ai integration with snapdragon processor with nice battery more than 10 hrs .what is your advice

Doing such a great job

Its very useful video bro 👌Nice work 💯 Keep up with your work 🎉 Love from India❤

Lenovo for me but I need to know how good is it for video editing

Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 16" looking pretty nice ngl among the others

I use the tandem Mac mini - Tv monitor combination for the last 20 years and I can not do otherwise. Due to the downside of entertainment industry I prefer to choose what I watch and almost nothing from tv programs nowadays. Indeed I use lots of money to upgrade constantly the tv and the Mac. I have issues with Mac mini pro M2 paired with a Samsung 85inch-8k tv 2023. I get nice 4K but never at 120hz. Than I get 8k with 60hz but the screen get impossibility to read because of extra small size. Than I get something’s like few seconds black screen. Change to usb C to hdmi cable, no more black screen but it stopped to appear 8k resolution on display and the colors get a bit cold and washed. Any idea ? Thank you …

Reading the specs sheet from Apple is not a review.

3.4 GHz to 3.8 GHz -- 400 MHz for $400? Samsung marketeers think they are Apple and their customers are naive and pretentious.

I was going for the Surface 15 laptop till I saw how bad the reflections are. It’s unusually glossy.

My sympathy for everyone who bought new laptops recently w/o this chip. Overnight, values have plummeted. Good time to buy a predecessor really really cheap!

I was lucky to find an M2 Pro on Apple Refurbished with 32 Gb and 2 TB.That is my ideal.I'm still pinching myself.

Pointing out that a good comparison between the two base models is to think of what an extra $300 gets instead of the total price difference was a really helpful way think of it. Thank you!

jez, best comparison so far, great job.

Just got my dell XPS in today, watching this before unboxing it lol super hyped

your idea is wrong, someone they don't care burn, like change TV few years for new technology, it does not hurt eyes as TV built for eye, so let them have fun, for this short life span

Great vid, subbed.

Great job digging into the details, much appreciated. I can only hope something from the Elite processor line works it's way into something as light as the Microsoft Surface Go for us nomads. Cheers!

macbook pro 2019 15" intel based mac and have 2K 144hz through usb c to DP cable, and second screen with FHD 60hz thought both are 34" 2K 144hz also this macbook is running insane hot above 60 to 90 sometimes 100 degrees