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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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[–] Alphane_Moon 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

But the main thing is this while story is some bizarre idea that a new device getting nearly 1% of global sales in its first quarter is doing badly?

There was a lot of hype for this and some sketchy work by Qualcomm around benchmarks (initially posted benchmarks that were based on a linux setup with 100% custom cooling, none of the released products came close to this result and it's not really viable to run Linux on Snapdragon X devices even to this day).

Ars Technica - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite looks like the Windows world’s answer to Apple Silicon
The Verge - Qualcomm’s next round of PC chips will fight Apple under the name Snapdragon X
Tomshardware - Snapdragon X Elite Outperforms Intel, AMD, Apple CPUs (In Vendor Benchmarks)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

it’s not really viable to run Linux on Snapdragon X devices even to this day

Really? That's too bad, because I've been interested in a new laptop and those laptops looked interesting. I'm not actively shopping though, so hopefully Linux compat improves by the time my laptop dies.