Fastest X Elite Laptop vs 15" MacBook Air: There's NO Way..

The ONLY way to get the BEST Snapdragon X Elite Chip X1E-84 SKU is with the Samsung Galaxy 16" Book4 Edge, but will it be enough on BATTERY power to beat Apple's 15" M3 MacBook Air?!
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16" Book4 Edge vs 15" M3 MacBook Air - 00:00
Display Comparison - 1:39
Design & Ports - 2:36
Speaker Comparison - 3:35
Webcam & Microphones - 4:28
SSD Speed Compared - 5:52
Geekbench 6 CPU Test - 6:25
Speedometer Web Browsing - 7:45
Figma Web Design - 8:23
3DMark Steel Nomad Light - 9:12
Cinebench 2024 CPU - 10:26
Blender 3D Rendering - 11:24
Native Lightroom Photo Editing - 13:23
Lightroom Classic x86 Emulation on X Elite - 14:33
Battery Life Results - 15:27
The Pros and Cons of X Elite - 16:49
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[@MaxTechOfficial]

Samsung Book4 Edge with X Elite 84 SKU ➡ geni.us/55LmUGu M3 MacBook Air 15" ➡ geni.us/kMpdm

[@anitawhale1013]

Hey Max Awesome video BTW, a little smt.. there a little annoying learning curve on the Samsung. Please open the "Samsung Settings" app "Type it in full it'll not show up if not" under Advanced features enable "Quick Settings" "That's all 🤣" it should be on the sysem tray now u can drag it out for quicker access You can install the app from MS-Store if it's not currently installed "in some rear cases it not" HDR+: You'll get even better HDR at the cost of battery life Camera: Studio mode will make your camera look a little better when activated Audio: Turn on Dolby Atmos and God those speakers Pop "it's free" and Performance: You are currently getting a worse performance on the Samsung since you are using the windows defaults u should use Samsung default All this settings are on the QuickSettings panel. Hopefully U use this in your updated videos "And show u are so people are aware since it's 2 clicks once setup"

[@cameraprepper7938]

Speakers on laptops are so stupid, bad sound all day, all year ! Use headset or bluetooth speaker !

[@cameraprepper7938]

I do not think your speedometer for web browsing is good enough, my old Lenovo laptop may not be as fast for ONE webside, but when I open multiple websides, then it keeps on going, even if it is slow, my Macbook M1 16 GB just jams and do NOTHING !

[@inamulbhuyan]

Snapdragon X Plus ❤❤

[@Darkoks2701]

Max you should change the Power Plan in the old control panel to best performance too for the best results

[@ZuLuuuuuu]

As far as I see, Qualcomm managed to create a very competitive chip. So it is now up to computer manufacturers, Microsoft and software developers to utilize this chip to the fullest.

[@_uncle_bob_]

let's wait for ages

[@TokyoNeko8]

I had high hope because this is the newest attempt at making ARM mainstream but it seems to have flopped. There is really no excuse because this is not the first time Windows is trying to push ARM architecture. Recall AI is a security issue, who wants to draw pics, another review of that drawing feature was pretty crapping on another channel. Do I need live translation when most of the international shows have caption? Am I going to talk to foreigners live often to need the translation feature? Other features like camera tricks for blur and eye tracking already exists. And if battery still not as good as macbooks it leaves very little reason to try Snapdragon X Elite in the current form since ecosystem is already not as good and I was hoping power and battery is going to be much better (WITHOUT plugged in). It also seems like diff PC manufactures have a big difference in performance and battery and diff chip speeds that isn't easy to see and making a choice harder also

[@okman9684]

​@@TokyoNeko8it is still in work in progress. Wait for Qualcomm's next generation chips or wait for further software updates because there arevmany frequent updates in x elit chips with big performance boost each time

[@ragaadin9408]

Yess absolutely!! I think all the problems now aren't because of qualcomm, all blames now going to microsoft because they really need to make windows better.

[@thebuddercweeper]

@@okman9684 But Qualcomm's next generation will be competing with M5. You have to remember that this is being compared to a last generation SoC and that M4 will be its main competitor from Apple.

[@joffrey6831]

On the thumbnail, he has 3 "arms" Get it ? ARMs

[@jackkelly7884]

Lmao

[@gosman949]

lame

[@AzVfL]

he changed the thumbnail :(

[@richard.20000]

3 strong ARMs = 💪 💪 from gym + 1x from Apple (M1) ... 😁

[@bigbilly29]

nice

[@lenn55]

Nice to see Apple Silicon finally getting some real competition. A win win for Mac users!

[@iconicmobile9422]

Now Apple gonna turn it up. I know they got everything ready they just need to release.

[@M16-bf4ku]

@@iconicmobile9422 and the snapdragon x elite gen 2 will be launched next year as well. Finally Apple might give 16gb ram as a standard on their base m4 pro macbooks

[@Noah-xn5th]

lol the M4 is already out there. Given that Qualcomm barely competes with the m3, there has to be a blood bath once m4 mac are released

[@AndyJMacLeod]

@@Noah-xn5th It's great for a first gen product though... and it'll be interesting to see how things progress over the next 5 years.

[@M16-bf4ku]

@@Noah-xn5th buddy it's better than m1 and m2. That's amazing for a first gen product.....

[@rajmadhure]

The OLED display on the Galaxy might have a higher peak brightness.

[@yuri_grillo]

And higher refresh rate

[@sativagirl1885]

OLED display #TOPS Macbook Air (in the Missionary Position)

[@huynhat1799]

The Galaxy Book battery life can keep up with Macbook air. Really impressive actually

[@arnoldrebello5260]

it even beats the $2000 M2 Max Macbook pro in single and multicore CPU.

[@user-ww1xp5dv2j]

not when multitasking, when you have vscode, browser and any music app running at the same time, win on arm instantly boost your cpu to 2.5ghz resulting in 15watts of power usage. Meanwhile Mac is only around 5-8.

[@thebuddercweeper]

@@user-ww1xp5dv2j I suspected something like this might be the case. At least it doesn't use as much as Intel...

[@SuperG316]

@@thebuddercweeper AMD is coming to with Zen5C Why compare this mid 2024 with old M1 to M3 hardware. Also intel comes with lunarlake that wil be also very efficient. But very lowpower. AMD solution is more powerfull.

[@thebuddercweeper]

​@@SuperG316 Somehow I doubt anything Intel makes will be "very efficient" but we'll see. That's kind of what I've been trying to tell people, M4 is *already out* and will be coming in MacBooks soon, M3 is last generation. It makes no sense to compare it to the X elite, a current generation SoC, and yet M3 is still winning in most areas.

[@markedwards4879]

Do the MacBook Pro with fans and see.

[@gautamkumar-li7ey]

Surface is better than galaxy

[@geoffstrickler]

Haven’t seen either personally, but based on reviews I’ve seen, I agree.

[@elmoone9565]

True

[@MainInternetUser]

What a shame for Samsung

[@omairij_yt]

except for the display. Sam got the oled.

[@geoffstrickler]

@@omairij_yt Not everyone considers that an improvement. Sure, blacks are completely black, but you also have burn-in issues and limits on brightness (on most OLED anyway).

[@thebeast_]

The fact that apple still putting lcd in 2024 in macbook is soul crushing

[@TomSrc]

The pro models use mini-LED

[@muhamadchozin6783]

There is a strong reason why they chose not to implement OLED on their laptop product. Because of the screen burn. Laptops are completely different from phones. It has many static graphic icons on the screen like Dock which is pretty dangerous in term of screen burn.

[@devlin2427]

99% of laptops with oled displays have PWM flickering.

[@sholmes_ttyy]

@@TomSrc Mini LED is just LCD with controllable backlight

[@TomSrc]

@@sholmes_ttyy Yep! I find them much better for longevity compared to OLED. You won't be getting screen burn-in.

[@JustXavier]

Can you compare the M3 MacBook Air against the Windows surface 7 or the Lenovo slim 7x?

[@MainInternetUser]

He already compared it (it's 2 videos before this one) and spoiler alert: if you compare the results with those of today, the surface laptop performs better than the Samsung today while having a lower end X Elite and being smaller also having quiet fans. The Samsung is one of the worse X Elite laptops as it also throttles on battery (unlike the Surface)

[@annevoss4302]

Do not forget that the XElite had 3 times the amount of performance cores as compared to the M3… (time stamp 0:50 or so)

[@rechiecanonigo3800]

Just imagine if X Elite chip doesn’t have a fan. It cannot beat M3 that doesn’t have a fan so more likely its comparable to M1 or M2.

[@ruinedshadow97]

Imagine apple didnt have the more price even tho it has no fan lol i only compare price to performance which x elite demolishes m3 😂 in every way

[@BorislavMitsov]

It's really pleasing to see competition coming up on the stage, this make things getting better! ✌🏻

[@Devansh-Gautam]

screen size and refresh rate also matter in battery life so its quiet good😌😌😏

[@ahaimes6320]

Yes, OLED is more power-consuming for sure but most of these tests would not have used 120Hz much. Not sure about comparable screen sizes though likely the battery difference is not significant.

[@M16-bf4ku]

@@ahaimes6320 oled??? more power consuming???? you serious????

[@SahilP2648]

@@ahaimes6320 LCD is more power consuming :/

[@adammoore82]

The video thumbnail is giving A.I vibes by 3 hands in it

[@Therad_bagel]

3 ARMs

[@BossAtwork69]

Optimization is key here. Nothing wrong with the hardware. Microsoft careless management didn't push for native apps support for ARM before the release which is now going to bite them in the ass

[@rosetzu_nagasawa]

yeah, once again, Microsoft will do a wait and see, before putting more effort BUT if sales went up, then they really don't need any more effort.... this dumb chicken and egg circular thinking is why Microsoft barely does anything new.. Yeah, change icon here and there, re position start menu....craps.

[@DarkCloud360]

Blender offers a beta version of ARM for Windows. Can you try this version and if GPU selection then works?

[@drev487]

This KZbinrs are amazing, there is easy arm build access on Blender website but all are testing x86..

[@aseshshrestha2909]

Their GPU sucks anyways, it's no where near Apple's GPU. Apple rocks!!

[@RedDragon72q]

@@aseshshrestha2909 Agreed. Came from a windows pc with a 12xxx intel and Nvidia 3060(mind you this 3060 can hit 140watts) and the games I played on that machine play just as well or better on my Max 16/40 chip.

[@ahaimes6320]

FYI, Samsung has a 62wh battery, which is not as you stated, so the difference in size is about 5% more for the Macbook.

[@Manasyavani]

Great video.....how is is the heat management with Samsung laptop??? That's a USP for MacBook Air always without a fan...i use my laptop on cough...

[@tsaukenneth4209]

Thanks for the video. love this channel for the comparisons. But I'm still surprised you guys have not done anything about the ASUS Zephyrus G14/16 laptops. Hope you will some day, fingers crossed!😇

[@MaxTechOfficial]

We actually have in the past

[@lorenzocorsomusic1308]

Please compare it to the 15 inch version of the surface laptop 7. Samsung really didn’t do anyone a favor with this laptop

[@MTN1601]

Yeah, the battery performance is terrible on Samsung laptops while that didn’t happen in Surface ones

[@tringuyen7519]

@@MTN1601Don’t hold your breath on Surface Laptops battery performance. It won’t beat an M3 Pro MacBook.

[@neddiego2570]

​@@tringuyen751920 hrs of 4k video playback on WiFi beats m3

[@M16-bf4ku]

@@tringuyen7519 the 2nd gen x elite would surely beat an m4 pro

[@Mo_Klonus]

The deck flex when you pushed on the trackpad would drive me crazy.

[@helios2379]

Did you turn on the performance mode from Samsung settings and also the dolby sound?

[@AndysTV]

How about video editing export time?

[@adithyabhat6622]

1. 16 inch version of the Samsung edge 4 has a 62Wh battery 16:07 2. Instead of setting the battery mode to high performance, change the power option to high performance

[@MaxTechOfficial]

Ah really? I must have found incorrect information, then. Yes, I set the power option to high performance in the Samsung Settings as well. I also forced Ultimate Performance using Alex Ziskind's PowerShell code.

[@realfakearchitect]

​@MaxTechOfficial This warrants for a re review. Results not fair. PART 2!!!!!!

[@anitawhale1013]

@@MaxTechOfficial I replied to you on an easier way to do this without powershell I even noticed the samsung way even gives better performace on battery please check the reply to your pinned comment above

[@hassanrehman7745]

@@realfakearchitect bruh what re-review? he just told you he set the power option to high performance

[@Johnmims65]

@@MaxTechOfficialbetween the surface laptop 15” and the MacBook Air m3 15” which one is the better buy?

[@Warped9]

My takeaways. It’s not always what you have, but how you use it. Overall the Macbook is on par while being fanless. If the Samsung were fanless it would cook itself. But overall I still find the Macbook better overall beyond mere numbers.

[@_uncle_bob_]

agree, because any MacBook is a single whole - software and hardware

[@okman9684]

You can't just expect high reliability from a gen 1 product. Let Qualcomm to cook. Apple already in 4th generation of their m series chip

[@burnedmozzarella]

​@@_uncle_bob_ Windows only winning with its compatibility, other probably suck especially with optimisation compared to MacOS (heck even Linux). i am afraid these ARM Chips will be bottlenecked by Windows and their useless AI feature

[@user-ww1xp5dv2j]

@@burnedmozzarellayou can’t run cuda with win on arm too. 0 point

[@burnedmozzarella]

@@user-ww1xp5dv2j Microsoft is just fucking blob when it comes to Windows. those NPUs could be used better than an AI, especially one that screenshot everything you do without your consent.

[@majestyblur3668]

We need a standby mode battery test. How the laptop will hold us when left to sleep over night

[@jeffbaker4219]

@MaxTechOfficial the link you provided for the Samsung Book4 Edge with X Elite 84 SKU does not go the the device you are reviewing. Just leads to the listing of all Intel models for me.

[@m89hu]

Let’s hope that the base M4 air will come with the tandem oled display and 16gb unified memory.

[@specialsomeones]

Lol! Macbook pro 16” maybe

[@ronitbhalerao1789]

Not happening

[@m89hu]

@@specialsomeones then I hope they make that thinner

[@CINEMATIK]

Which one is the Best CO-Pilot laptop on Xellite? Can you compare them among each other:lenovo, dell, asus, suraface laptop, samsung. Please.

[@MaxTechOfficial]

Yes we will probably like next week or maybe later

[@SuperG316]

There will be coming intel and AMD copilot laptops that is Lunarlake and Zen5/zen5c/RDNA3.5

[@CINEMATIK]

@@MaxTechOfficial 👍 Супер!

[@rowaystarco]

Get the Surface Laptop 7, it's actually priced very good and seems to be performing quite well on the X Elite 80-chip. Do not stress about getting the biggest storage option, if you need more storage you can order a 2230 SSD much cheaper and just upgrade yourself. I'll possibly upgrade my Surface Pro 11 to 2TB after a while.

[@WesCook1]

does it make a difference on the windows machine if plugged in, goto 100%?

[@RedDragon72q]

There is no comparison here. You picked the highest SKU for the Qualcomm chip. 12P cores vs 4P and 4E cores on the Mac. The Mac was only slightly slower, accept one, in the tests it lost which makes since as it takes 3E cores to match 1P core in a mac. So the mac has less than half the P core count and still won all but 3 tests. Sorry the Mac wins hands down... Oh nail in coffin here; as mentioned you put the flagship against the entry level and the entry level came out on top. Glad you mention at the end about another round but don't use the Pro chip do the Max with 40 cores. I mean you are picking the top SKU for Qualcomm it only makes since to choose the Max 16/40 for Apple.

[@moonmode3232]

Interested to see what benches show with the M4

[@fastedwarrior7353]

M4 would completely destroy Snapdragon and it wouldn't even be close.

[@thebuddercweeper]

M4 will match or slightly beat the X Elite in multicore and easily beat it in everything else, especially GPU, while using less power.

[@kuso7558]

​@@thebuddercweeper This was qualcomms first big push for windows arm. I hope they can close the margins even more next gen!

[@Jushwa]

Little fan-less iPad Pro with the m4 chip crushes it in geekbench 6 due to it being arm8 based but would be interesting to see other benchmarks like speedometer and such as well!

[@moonmode3232]

I know Apple is working hard on the next gen M5 or whatever it’s called. Competition is good and I hope it pushes them to be even better than expected.

[@Mac_Daddy84]

I like that you were surprised when the machine with more processor cores won the multicore benchmark. This almost seemed set to give the Samsung the advantage.

[@MaxTechOfficial]

Don't worry. We will compare it to the more expensive M3 Pro next week

[@mozzinator]

why should it matter when you can get the Machine with more cores cheaper than the Machine with less cores. Price is huge factor at the end of the day.

[@LVTN979]

More fun is when he Is also surprised when the M3 smokes the X Elite on Blender, when M3 is running full GPU accelerated and the X Elite runs under software emulation. lol.

[@rowaystarco]

@@MaxTechOfficial It's mostly a pointless comparison though. The M3 Pro is most likely more powerful, but the machines are also more expensive.

[@Jushwa]

@@MaxTechOfficialcan we see a video where you benchmark it against a fanless iPad Pro with the m4 chip, might be a good sneak peak to what we will see this coming fall season when Apple brings m4 to the laptops.

[@justintan1198]

Excellent comparison 👍

[@kianfong]

Did windows fix the close-lid-to-sleep problem?

[@bevteslarevolution1558]

Apple consistent and fan less is always a strong argument against any other laptop.

[@victortarnovskiy8407]

Until it falls to throttling under load

[@bevteslarevolution1558]

@@victortarnovskiy8407 yes but other are throttling without connecting power plug, and burning when air intake is obstructed which I love on Apple as a real mobile equipment for a good working day, not talking about gaming but excellent for work environment in my opinion

[@ashishpatel350]

until it fails because of heat soak. the fan isnt just for the cpu. other things on the motherboard need air. apple is known for killing motherboards.

[@vedantdesai1]

@@ashishpatel350hmm - post 2020 apple is the most reliable for longevity. At this moment the “killing motherboards” crown goes to Dell and Asus.

[@ashishpatel350]

@@vedantdesai1 lies. How. Look at your local computer repair shop and see what computers are being fixed

[@chromefuture5561]

I love how you didn t sad anything about resolution

[@bernardosuss]

Excellent video, thank you so much

[@XInfinity2024]

Good video but I am disapointed that you didn't include video editing between the two using Adobe on both then Final Cut Pro on the M3 Air.

[@fightbleedrepeat]

Being a mbp user, great job qualcomm, finally we have a competitor otherwise i never considered 100kg laptops with 2 hr battery life to be mac’s competitor

[@ChristopherPatrickCalalang]

“If you don’t care about graphics, this is literally a game changer”. LMFAO

[@ahaimes6320]

Yes, funny! He should have added that if you are not worried about many apps not working or being slower under emulation, then you are good to go!

[@usnikdaripa]

@@ahaimes6320 brainwashed isheep

[@tringuyen7519]

@@ahaimes6320Agreed. For the price of Samsung Snapdragon laptop, you can buy Asus Pro Art 16 with AMD AI 9 370HX & RTX 4060!

[@extra4542]

@@ahaimes6320you know that the X elite JUST came out right? It took some time for apps to become ARM native for the M chips too dude. It’s a necessary step for devs to update their apps. The fact that emulation works as well as it does right now should be applauded vs most apps not working at all. One day, at least ARM windows laptops will have access to all games. macs still continue to have a trickle of a selection. And I’m someone that has a MacBook Pro but these changes for windows excite me bc we need competition. I’m also looking forward to ARM PC handhelds that have way better efficiency for gaming than what we got today

[@yeucongnghe-f8]

haha

[@BrockSuire75]

Is the Samsung PC up-gradable? Ram & SSD?

[@corneliusjermainehightower7539]

As a MacBook user how can anyone from the Apple side get upset and want to see a clearly lower power meant to be MacBook Air rival. This isn’t aimed at the pro model you gotta get over wanting to see Apple beat Samsung. It’s not a Samsung book edge Pro, it’s a first generation aimed at the MacBook Air. For all the grown folks out here your grown be grown. We’re not in it to see a company that you have no stake in win we’re here to get the best product for our money. And I have to say to have a smaller battery and perform that well on its first time around that’s amazing. Great video by the way!

[@TokyoNeko8]

Could you show 12-CPU macbook pro vs. this 12-cpu X elite?

[@MaxTechOfficial]

Yes next week!

[@Daidalos66]

@@MaxTechOfficial cant wait :)

[@williammaverick]

OLED CONSUMES MORE POWER THAN AN LED. WHY DOES NOT A SINGLE "TECH" REVIEWER NEVER MENTION THIS?? 🤷‍♀

[@andi.k3979]

I tought it was the opposite, no?

[@williammaverick]

@@andi.k3979 If you watch movies with dark scenes the entire time, yes an OLED would consume less.. but everything else, it will consume more. Not to mention it's a dying screen. OEMs love putting OLEDs on their laptops cause they give you a reason to buy a new one in 24 months once the screen burn in occurs. OLED works on phones cause people replace them every 2 years or so. It's bad on laptops. Tandem OLED is a different story though. It's the latest OLED tech only found in the newest iPad and in the X Elite version of the XPS 13.

[@KitsuneKiera]

@@andi.k3979it depends, on light images then OLED consumes far more, on a dark image the OLED consumes less.

[@wander9642]

​@@andi.k3979The XPS 13's OLED version has half the battery life of the LED version, granted it has more pixels to light up, still, half is huge and a bigger part of that is the power hungriness of OLED on non black images on screen.

[@slimerewoods5766]

@@andi.k3979only if it’s black on the screen

[@ZachAttack2U]

Just wait until Strix comes out in Asus Laptops July 31st. I can't wait to see the testing with those, especially for graphics and gaming. Thanks for the great content Max Tech! 🔥👍

[@Alphabet7]

Did you say it's a benefit for the battery life when you said they're brightness on the display is worse?

[@Epicgamer_Mac]

These types of videos are why I’m subscribed to you guys. You can’t beat the comparisons, whether it’s smartphones, phone cameras, or computers. Going back to the very roots of Max Tech! I’d love to see you guys compare the M3 Max to one of the newer 14900hx Windows beast laptops to see how the M3 Max has held up.

[@AdityaKumar2128]

Compare it with M3 Pro unbinned one

[@mozzinator]

Why ? does m3 unbinned costs less than Elite? or Does Snapdragon compares their chip to m3 Pro in their Marketing?

[@rodpark442]

The whole computer world is playing catch up, atlast some serious competition

[@bartoszplo]

How about the video editing performance in eg. Davinci?

[@ereceeme]

davinci has an arm version but it still need a gpu to shine

[@GiannisTsolakidis]

Wait, so after 4 generations of Apple Silicon, we finally have a competitor, but in some tests, it won't even match the M3, let alone the M4, Pro, or Max chips. There's some more catching up to do.

[@marcelinoverazanidesouza]

This maybe is the first batch. When Apple launched M1, the Pro and the Max were announced 1 year later and the Ultra 2 years later. Although the X Elite is below the promised, it's a good start. And the agreement with Microsoft finishes this year, so another companies may enter the game of ARM SoCs for Windows, too (rumors of AMD, nVidia, Mediatek and Samsung are willing to). Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, already gave clues about nVidia intentions when he was with Michael Dell and asked by Bloomberg.

[@weekendintokyo]

It's their first generation of this kind of product and CPU power of the X Elite matches the m4 (around 15k in geekbench) in multi core performance, and single core is only 7% slower (geekbench 2.8k vs 3k). The NPU is top notch and we'll see if it's actually useful and programs start using it (like davinci resolve using it for tracking or noise reduction). Yeah the GPU is kinda just alright and Apple has the lead there, I expected more too, but as said this is very good for a first Generation product. It's good for us in the End as the end consumer we profit from more competition. Apple dropped the m4 only 6 months after m3 announcement because they were scared of the X Elite and it's multicore perfomance.

[@yuhapps6758]

Just compare it with the 14" M3 MacBook Pro. It'll be fair.

[@heroofjustice3349]

Fair? MBP chasis is even more expensive than Air. With 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD it would be 250 dollars more than Galaxy Book Edge. Even with higher price you get smaller display in technology that happened to be inferior even with all those billions Apple put into MiniLED development.

[@gijutsu-chan]

Fair will be if it's comparable in price with the same config.

[@jaiswalsiddharth6489]

With the MacBook pro test can you change the performance mode in powershell menu as well please.Maybe that's what is limiting the performance.

[@morningglory102]

This actually turned out better than i thought considering barely anything is optimized for the ARM processor. Can't wait to see it's performance when everything is optimized.

[@RockyBell]

Smsung did dirty with x elite they are underclocking it so hard that to get full performan6out of it you have to plug it to power supply.

[@thebuddercweeper]

That's because it's not actually as power efficient as Qualcomm led everyone to believe.

[@oh-noe]

but that's exactly what people don't want from arm.. Why would you buy an arm pc if you have to plug it to a power supply like x86? At that point just get x86 lol

[@jamiermathlin]

Fastest Snapdragon vs slowest M3 ? good comparison, similar money !

[@ashyouknow7420]

Slowest M3 and it is still more expensive. Seems fair enough.

[@gabrielpaiva13]

It's based on pricing. The fastest X Elite is priced similar to the "slowest" M3. Qualcomm still needs to release something that compared to the Apple Pro chips

[@yuvrajsingh099]

​@@gabrielpaiva13The Isheep just feel offended.

[@GlobalWave1]

@@gabrielpaiva13The only real thing lacking is the GPU which is atrocious. The multi core is on par with an M2 Max but we are already getting the M4 chips in laptops in a few months. The NPU’s are nice in these but I can’t imagine the M4 max compared to these but again it’s probably not comparable.

[@TamasKiss-yk4st]

@ashyouknow7420 but Apple udpates their OS in every year, and they even give you free features for free with that for 7-10 years, unlike Windows when you must pay for the new OS and they also shortening their support time in the recent years.. And don't forget the resale price.. Apple products keep their price better, so if you decide to buy the newer model 3 years later, it's matter you can get back 60% of your money or just 30%.. (by the way check the M1 macbook price and that is basically just a bit slower..)

[@Crazy_Transformation]

Which one should I choose for video editing? Both are almost the same price on Education sale. MacBook air m2 16gb 512gb VS MacBook air M3 16gb 256gb

[@gregorypenetrante1272]

M2. You get more storage. Ray tracing is overrated unless you use blender or play certain games.

[@segundacuenta726]

m3, faster single core and faster gpu. you can add external storage, but 16gb ram is the minimum yes

[@retrocomputing]

16/512 is the minimum you should get if you want it to last somewhat

[@toxotis70]

Can you test premiere and davinci ?

[@Visualization1]

If the eco system is not on par, then it doesn’t matter if it’s faster or better in my opinion.

[@ehtasam2080]

Ecosystem better samsung

[@haruyanto8085]

The fact that it has windows is a huge bonus, most developers, analyst, data scientists etc use windows

[@haruyanto8085]

​@@ehtasam2080 no it isnt

[@ehtasam2080]

@@haruyanto8085 you didn't experience and seen yet.

[@arnoldrebello5260]

fair point. but i think the consumer in 2024 will be more interested in 16gb ram and 1tb upgradable storage in the base model over the ecosystem.

[@rohittkrr]

Apple nailed it with a fanless machine. We are still a long way before we get high performance and battery in a fanless windows machine

[@asfonseca]

Disclaimer: Almost all of these benchmark tools are being run in an emulated mode or are not yet fully optimized for the Samsung laptop with the Snapdragon X Elite chipset. Even so, they handle the task almost flawlessly.

[@juanabrams25]

I would love to see the results of the tests on the Mac in low power mode. You guys have stated that low power mode doesn’t change results on M Macs but will probably have even more battery left in the end

[@arnoldrebello5260]

X Elite is beating M2 Max in both single core and multicore geekbench CPU. Just that is enough to get a huge market share. 16 GB ram as base and 1TB user upgradable ssd is the icing on the cake.

[@ahaimes6320]

Not close in real-life usage though!

[@okman9684]

​@@ahaimes6320you know what is not close for real life usages? Just 8 GB RAM for a 1000$ laptop. Guess which company makes that

[@thebuddercweeper]

"it slightly outperforms a 2 year old CPU while having more performance cores and using just as much power". Shocking.

[@ahaimes6320]

@@okman9684 For some people, 8GB is just fine. You can get over it; if 8GB is not enough, buy something with higher storage. I have seen the MB Air M3 base 8GB model selling for $800 on Amazon US, so it is a relatively good value compared to some of these X-Elite devices.

[@aseshshrestha2909]

CPU only, it can't even compete with it's GPU. M4 is already way ahead, fanboy!!

[@randomguy9830]

People forget X Elite was made to compete against M2, but performs also great against M3.

[@mbahchiemerie115]

Exactly, this chip is close to 2 years old actually

[@thebuddercweeper]

@@mbahchiemerie115 I mean no, it isn't. it was released this year, when M3 is already last generation. it should really be competing against M4.

[@Niasyy]

@@thebuddercweeperno you’re definitely wrong, the X elite compete with m3, the m4 is not released on mac but only iPad, and destroy them

[@I_like_science]

@@Niasyy m4 has the same performance and 40 percent decrease in power. Better graphics, better ai ,… it will take at least another 3-5 years before they can compete with Apple toe to toe

[@thebuddercweeper]

@@Niasyy M3 was released approaching a year ago, M4 is out and will be released in laptops in a few months. How does it make sense to compare a last generation SoC to one that was just released?

[@asfonseca]

Galaxy Book4 Edge with Snapdragon X Elite crushing a well-optimized MacBook Air M3. Just imagine how well these Snapdragon X laptops will perform later when we have more software optimized for these chips!

[@IFrancyISantosI]

Any chance of getting the Lenovo Yoga 7x ?

[@macbookpr0]

m3 won in most tasks. apple wins.

[@yuvrajsingh099]

In your dreams, Isheep.

[@okman9684]

Samsung has the best display. Guess why because apple also buys from them

[@chidorirasenganz]

@@okman9684Nope. Apple has Samsung as well as BOE an LG manufacture displays that they designed

[@aashishnakarmi1690]

​@@chidorirasenganznope samsung manufactures its own displays. LG and Boe are not on Samsungs level.

[@AV-ik5mm]

@@yuvrajsingh099You are crying because you lost gaysung lover 😂

[@ChilenonetoYoutube]

Love the description of apple wins :"demoslished", " "destroyed" And the samsung wins:"but the mac *some excuse*"

[@FocusFlow05]

Exactly, i noticed this again and again, Especially on fan noise. "Yea samsung won because of the fan but the mac doesnt have a fan", a couple of the second earlier, "i noticed high pitching noise that really annoys me" 😐. Like, what are you gonna expect? Who's gonna supprised that 10 mins of full load test, the mac gonna lose so bad? feels like a biased comparison for me

[@ChilenonetoYoutube]

@@FocusFlow05 this is a very apple brand biased channel. I am subscribed because dont want to be a moron only listening at my side of things.

[@atifismail4659]

He/ this channel can't accept the Apple/Mac defeat. Hardcore Apple fanboys.

[@awesome9jaboy]

For the sound test, i doubt you enabled Dolby Atmos for speakers on the Samsung book 4. The sound profile changes substantially when you enable this

[@myhappyabby]

i would be curious about the XElite's performance in compiler benchmarks.

[@Coconutgl]

There are many x86 application cannot be run on X Elite, don't fake customers that it is that good ok? Also M3 has Pro/Max version, it is better to compare the basic M3 with X plus rather than X Elite.

[@xperiafan5370]

Are you forgetting the price? Even the top end X Elite SKU based laptop is still cheaper than the MBP with similar specs, heck even the MBA. And with better hardware at that. Or has price-performance jumped out the window now?

[@Coconutgl]

@@xperiafan5370 Apple users care price? And if you really care the price, buy AMD laptop, at least it can run all x86 applications and much cheaper than X Elite.

[@Coconutgl]

@@yujinm4161 I have checked the price, the cheapest surface laptop with X plus is the same price as macbook air M3 with 10gpu core version in my country. I don't think compare M3 with X plus has any problem.

[@TamasKiss-yk4st]

You are right, but the price is also a factor in comparison (even if it's has 2x longer OS support, and keep better the price, so you get back more money when you switch that a few years later, or the Macbook able to run this benchmarks with just 8GB RAM, when Windows fail to run this kind of things with less than 16GB etc.. also don't forget the M1 Macbooks about half/third of the price and basically almost the same..)

[@JustXavier]

I don't think there are that many x86 apps that won't run. Microsoft has an emulation process that works similar to Apple's Rosetta 2. There have already been KZbinrs who tested this emulation process and found that the majority of the apps they tested worked via the emulation layer.

[@zaidkhanusiya007]

Bro you make nice videos but they are repetitive, you can try something new like try reviewing and comparing phones Android vs iPhone, or some gadgets or some other tech, and go outside this laptop world and try all other tech things. May be if you try this and convince us viewers and entertain us in a lot different ways. All the best.

[@_Steve_S]

They‘ve done android vs iPhone many times over the years, how would that be new?

[@rtc3000]

They did. They reviewed other stuff but not as much. They can see the reactions and number of views. Most people could be more interested in apple and comparisons. I for one feels that they are consistent.

[@zaidkhanusiya007]

@rtc3000 you are right I think

[@nich-nk2cr]

what about E-Gpu's on X Elite? I wonder if they could be used on the USB 4.0 ports?

[@KitsuneKiera]

I think GPU drivers would have to be written to work with an ARM CPU if I understand correctly, so it should theoretically be possible but it would be unlikely that it would work right now.

[@Munchkin528-zf1tb]

Can you do this again but with the base model macbook pro 14 inch with m3?

[@MrSamPhoenix]

Why are people going out of their way to compare the base M3 chips with the more powerful Snapdragon

[@ILFforever]

Becuz they're almost the same price?? The Samsung being over $100 bucks cheaper.

[@JohnSmith762A11B]

Who cares about these Windows laptops? They run Windows and are thus trash by definition.

[@igottheshaft]

I wish it could run Linux

[@mahinmohammedshaikh2594]

It can run Linux

[@bijayrai942]

lol try using heavy software that uses the ram. Apple is obviously used for single app performance

[@ahmadafnan3756]

@@bijayrai942 lightroom used more RAM.. x elite is good, but, the grafic performance is really a downside.. hope to see it can collab with nvidia

[@thibvdb]

As Microsoft introduced MS Prism to translate x86 apps to ARM apps, have you done some performance tests of a Windows 11 24H2 ARM preview version on a Parallels Desktop virtual machine on a Mac book Air M3 ?

[@mikeb.4597]

The comparison videos are always interesting to watch. In the end however, it boils down to what OS you prefer. MacOS or Windows. If you use both then it’s a win/win. It’s good to see some competition in the chip market, and the other options that are out there!

[@RobertDunn310]

Thank you for this analysis and comparison. The Galaxy Book wouldn't exactly be my first choice as a WoA PC, but it is still impressive nonetheless, and despite the shortcomings in software and driver compatibility, I think we can all get behind extra competition in the PC Space.

[@scttymn]

It'll be interesting to see how ARM performs on Windows as things mature. pretty good start.

[@luigiplayer14]

Well.. I certainly don’t regret getting an XPS 9310 2-in-1 before these were announced now.

[@christopher3d475]

I know you're comparing price points, but you also need to test core-for-core comparisons. So an M3 Pro vs the 84 variant.

[@nickyekkebus1870]

I read the have this one planned for next week 🎉

[@marksaxon]

While I'm an Apple user, I think this is great for Windows and competition. Intel rested on Skylake for so long and didn't push their tech and now they are paying the price. All they ever could do was ramp up the wattage and core speeds at the cost of battery life. Now that's there a real world working example of ARM with great battery life, I can only imagine what OEMs are starting to think. I'm hoping this wakes Apple up a little bit with their displays.

[@gabidubo]

The battery consumption on the Galaxy Book was 33,5 Wh and the Macbook air was 34,58 Wh

[@dannulik]

From what I've seen in other reviews the Edge doesn't run on full power even if you set it to "High Performance" unless it's plugged in.

[@IanHobday]

The real question is how does it compare to M4? The M3 is still using ARMv8 cores while the M4 and SnapX chips are ARMv9. Qualcomm has done very well with these chips but I suspect Apple is still ahead. Bang for buck though, Qualcomm probably wins!

[@surena9451]

Does anyone have issues with the speedometer 2.0/3.0 tests? They seem to take awfully long for me and the 3.0 test I let finish got only 2.44 points... on a M2 Pro... It's as if the software hangs for a minute then continues in a loop but no heat, no lag in other programs or even other safari tabs, no beachball.. nothing.

[@nikolaki]

I remember when I bought my wife a Samsung galaxy s2. The optical poptitude of the super amoled screen was amazing. Shame the handset battery barely made it to lunchtime.

[@mortenbrundk]

It's like comparing apples and pears. In the end, it comes down to which ecosystem (Apple or Windows) you prefer.

[@kumrandy7835]

Great video. Take note that switching to best performance in the settings app does not do a great job. I think switching the power profile to High performance would give you way more better performance.

[@sillystuff6247]

best side-by-side comparison i've seen.

[@Polhramorin]

funny that Book4 Edge won display competition but in Figma @ 8:48 colours on Mac are more realistic and tuned, or at least it seems so from the video

[@robertmaloney1689]

4:30 MacBook Air mic removes most of the room boominess, which is good.

[@berntlie6799]

Possible to compare Lightroom AI denoising on the two machines?

[@henrikgustav2294]

Vmware/virtualbox won’t work with snapdragon right?

[@whateverinbetween9444]

now compare x elite against m3 max both unplugged and plugged. i'm so excited

[@360trev]

Be interesting to see the native ARM 64 stats with a supported GPU, Blender is available as a daily build in ARM 64 for Windows, as 4.3.0 in Alpha from June 23rd, even on June 5th 4.2.0 was available compiled for ARM 64 / Windows. No idea if they have yet done native GPU support for the X Elite yet.

[@mr.morales0707]

Cool for Apple to get competition. I have the M2 Max MacBook Pro fully speced out and it’s a extremly slow and distressing computer to use