Asus tells reviewers one Zenbook A16 price, then immediately hikes it
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Asus tells reviewers one Zenbook A16 price, then immediately hikes it
Asus told reviewers that its Zenbook A16 laptop, one of the first with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite inside it, would be $1,599. A day after the launch, it raised the price. Is that fair, even in the age of shortages?
PCWorld (www.pcworld.com)
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Asus tells reviewers one Zenbook A16 price, then immediately hikes it
Asus told reviewers that its Zenbook A16 laptop, one of the first with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite inside it, would be $1,599. A day after the launch, it raised the price. Is that fair, even in the age of shortages?
PCWorld (www.pcworld.com)
any ideas how well Linux runs on Snapdragon X2?
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any ideas how well Linux runs on Snapdragon X2?
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As of Christmas, several months back:
Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing
As part of my various end-of-year benchmarking comparison articles for looking at the performance evolution of Linux is a fresh look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop experience when using Ubuntu 25.10 with the latest X1E Concept packages, which includes taking the X1 Elite optimized kernel to the latest Linux 6.18 stable series.
(www.phoronix.com)
Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing
Hopefully in 2026 we'll see X2 Elite support morph into a more formidable contender for Linux use but as it stands now the Linux support and performance is better off with AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra laptop options.
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Asus tells reviewers one Zenbook A16 price, then immediately hikes it
Asus told reviewers that its Zenbook A16 laptop, one of the first with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite inside it, would be $1,599. A day after the launch, it raised the price. Is that fair, even in the age of shortages?
PCWorld (www.pcworld.com)
I like seeing more ARM based Linux laptops.
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As of Christmas, several months back:
Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing
As part of my various end-of-year benchmarking comparison articles for looking at the performance evolution of Linux is a fresh look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop experience when using Ubuntu 25.10 with the latest X1E Concept packages, which includes taking the X1 Elite optimized kernel to the latest Linux 6.18 stable series.
(www.phoronix.com)
Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing
Hopefully in 2026 we'll see X2 Elite support morph into a more formidable contender for Linux use but as it stands now the Linux support and performance is better off with AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra laptop options.
For ARM Linux comparison, I ran the Speedometer 3.0 benchmark the author uses on my daily driver Macbook Air M2 (24GB RAM) running Asahi Linux Fedora Remix 42 (KDE). I used FF 149 which is just what I had installed. It scored 22.0 which apparently was better than this Zenbook and even beat out several Ryzen 7 and Core i7 offerings:
A used M2 Air with my spec mine (24GB RAM 2TB SSD) is $800-$900, which is a fraction of the $1600 Asus wants for their slower unit new, but the Asus does have more RAM.
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