Not interested unless there is a reliable fanless mode (or no hardware fans at all). Until then, I will certainly stick with the Macbook Air for the peace and quiet.
Also the single threaded efficiency is really bad:
M5 - 12.8 Points per Watt
Qualcomm X2 - 5.83 Points per Watt
This is like more than twice as worse as the M5, really embarrassing given the lack of the x64 instruction set compatibility burden.
Overall not a terrible chip, but bad single threaded efficiency and the presence of annoying fans will kill it for a lot of people.
The flickering displays I am not even mentioning...
I would have loved a X2 laptop over Apple's Air, however the absence of fanless SKUs and the presence of annoying flickering head-inducing OLED displays (or really shitty low-res or slow-resp-time IPS) ruled that possibility out.
Generally, kinda pleasantly surprised, as even in the Kraken browser benchmark it's almost as fast as Air M5. In CrossMark the Air is 20% faster, but in Cyberpunk 2077 the A14 is 58% faster (could this be due to cooling and the A14 having a fan, not sure, as the CP2077 build-in benchmark is short and may not force the Air warm-up enough to throttle?), but in Steel Nomad the A14 is only 16% faster. If the iGPU is indeed this much faster, like in CP2077, this should lead to also much faster prompt processing.
These iGPUs are becoming quite fast and demand a 90 Hz display.
Quote from: dumb_oems on Today at 18:09:26The flickering displays I am not even mentioning...
Agreed.
Quote from: dumb_oems on Today at 18:02:29Not interested unless there is a reliable fanless mode (or no hardware fans at all). Until then, I will certainly stick with the Macbook Air for the peace and quiet.
I agree, this in a fanless chassis would become interesting to compare.
So this is 16.7% lighter than an Air, but the disadvantage is the fan. Indeed, this SoC needs to be released in a fanless chassis.
Quote from: dumb_oems on Today at 18:02:29Also the single threaded efficiency is really bad:
M5 - 12.8 Points per Watt
Qualcomm X2 - 5.83 Points per Watt
Well spotted, but interestingly this doesn't lead to a longer battery life, at least no in their test parkour. There's this vid showing that the Air supposedly doesn't report the actual power consumption (tho this may only be about the iGPU): youtube.com/watch?v=HKxIGgyeISM ("Apple's GPU Power Numbers Are Wrong — I Proved It").