Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3::Is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite the laptop processor to watch for 2024?
Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3::Is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite the laptop processor to watch for 2024?
Will Windows still have a “Power mode” slider ranging from “Best battery life” to “Best performance” with this chip? This is one of the most stupid things to have to manually control. Most manufacturers have presets with different TDP or other wattage settings, fan curves etc. With MacBooks on macOS, it just does the right thing all the time by itself.
I don’t agree. I like having the control. If I want to sacrifice performance for battery on a trip, why shouldn’t I be able to?
Why would you want to micromanage it though if it works perfectly automatically?
I use a ThinkPad P14s with a Ryzen 6850U and Windows on it, and if I want a (mostly) quiet working environment I have to set it to “Best battery life” (even with wall power it’s called that), but then it hard caps at rather low wattage for the APU. Using “Best performance” or “Balanced” (the middle of the slider) raises the maximum allowed wattage, but also adjusts the fan curve to be way more aggressive and even raises the base clocks, causing more idle system power draw.
This might just be Lenovo being incompetent in properly configuring their power profiles, but I’ve had similar experiences on different laptops.
On Macs, especially with Apple Silicon, it just works. It’s quiet and preserves battery life by default, and then maximizes performance when needed. No slider required.
Spoken like somebody who’s never had a corporate laptop with all the big-brother-ware and anti-virus. At 10pm, having stepped away hours ago, the fan is still at full blast.
“works perfectly automatically” Hahahaha
Machines can’t read my mind, last I checked.
Elon is working on that