Snapdragon powered CPU laptops -- any good ???

Hi folks
There seem to be some high powered smapdrogon CPU laptops around -- any good for Win 11 -- these I gather would require ARM version of Windows -- any good experiences with these (or bad) ??

Cheers
jimbo

I've reviewed half-a-dozen Snapdragon X laptops and one "tiny PC" likewise endowed. I own an Asus Zenbook A14, and bought my son a Yoga 7X. They're great for daily drivers for browsing, email, productivity apps, and so forth. You can't really use them as gaming machines, though. So unless you're a heavy gamer, you would probably enjoy their mid-range power, good capability and amazing battery life.
HTH,
--Ed--

I'm not a gamer but the little Snapdragon 13.5" Surface Laptop 7 machine I have is a very snappy little machine. I've been very happy with mine. I mean it's not going to match my intel core ultra 9 275HX machine but its sure a lot faster then my old 10th gen intel i7 machine.

I agree with the the positive comments and the limitations so far mentioned. My own Snapdragon laptop (obtained Black Friday 2025) is a Microsoft Surface Model (15" with the Snapdragon XElite CPU). Obviously these devices are not for serious gamers as there is no dedicated GPU but that's not what they were designed for. As lightweight general purrpose laptops with long battery life they seem to me to be be very capable; and windows 11 for ARM's x86 translation now seems to take care of most of the potential issues of a still limited availablity of native ARM64 coded software versions. So far, I only have only had one x86 64-bit application that won't install, but its 32-bit version installed with no problem. Some third party utility software obviously may not work cotrrectly until/unless re-written/compiled to run on ARM64 hardware; and it's still necessary to check whether native ARM64 hardware drivers are available for any equipment (e.g. Printers/Scanners) a user may wish to use, as standard x86_84 drivers are not compatible with the ARM64 platform .

The Oracle VirtualBox Windows verion was 'modified' to install on Windows for ARM around 6 months ago and works well for virtualsing ARM64 OS i.e. Windows 11 for ARM, and the Linux/BSD variants that currently provide ARM64/aarch64 compatible ISO installers (i.e. most of the 'major' distributions, including Debian, RHEL/Fedora etc., OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, FreeBSD; but very few of the most 'popular' derivatives have, so far, developed/released ARM64 versions). In general use, I haven't noticed any significant difference in performance between the ARM VMs I've installed on this Windows machine and those running on a more powerful MacBook Pro M1 Max, or a newer MacMini M5 system. 'Benchmarks' may, of course, suggest diffrently, to those obsessed with such things, but I prefer to compare performance/responsiveness in practical day-to-day use. For Windows 11 Pro users MS Hyper-V Virtualisation is also available, but VMware users are currently out of luck. - There is no x86_64 OS emulation, of course, with either virtualisation option, so don't expect to be able to install an x86_64 VM to work around the lack of ARM64 Hardware Drivers, or to be able to run some ancient Windows software that won't install on Windows 11..

They are quite good for sure, but they do have limitations as others have outlined. If you can live with them go for it.

Otherwise, best to use a real cpu.

For me personally it's about the same as a chromebook, so I would rather just use that.