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Only about 720,000 Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops sold since launch — under 0.8% of the total number of PCs shipped in Q3, or less than 1 out of every 125 devices (www.techradar.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Alphane_Moon to c/technology

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Source Canalys report

Relevant quote regarding Snapdragon X

“As this was the first full quarter of shipments for Snapdragon X Series PCs, we saw sequential growth of around 180% compared to Q2 2024. However, as a proportion of the total Windows market, the products remain very niche, at less than 1.5% share. The top shipping vendor was Microsoft, which has transitioned most of their Surface line to the platform. Behind them was Dell who has embraced the new platform quite strongly in terms of SKU count, followed by HP, Lenovo, Acer and Asus (all four with similar volumes).”

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Their math is fucked.

1 in 125 devices would be 0.8%, whereas 0.008% would be 1 in 12500 devices. I mean I guess technically 1 in 12500 is "less than" 1 in 125 devices, but come on.

They later note that it captured "less than 1.5%" of the ecosystem, which... yeah, the numbers they already gave us support that, but by how much? We have no idea, because of their fucked up math.

I assume "1 in 125" is correct, because otherwise, to have sold 720,000 units, there would have had to be about 9 billion total sales in that period.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Their headline, and the summary above, actually say 0.8%. so either they updated their headline or there was some kind of error when posting it here.

[–] Alphane_Moon 3 points 4 days ago

I posted the headline as-is. Updated it with the new headline.