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Asus' first Snapdragon X Elite laptop (mostly) blows away the MacBook Air M3


This thing toasts the M3 MacBook Air!

Benchmark tests (graphics)Header Cell - Column 0 Asus Vivobook S 15 (Snapdragon X Elite)Huawei MateBook X Pro (Intel Core Ultra 9)3DMark Time Spy256840483DMark Fire Strike506187083DMark Night Raid2628429550 Pair that with the four-speaker harman/kardon array with Dolby Atmos — packing a nice detailed soundstage that has a sneaky slither of bassy warmth — and you’ve got a lovely notebook to work on by day and binge watch by night. Windows studio effects feel far more accurate to use and start up a whole lot faster, and that NPU is being used in more places across third party apps than you may think — offloading intensive processes and easing that CPU load to keep up that longevity.

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