I could care less about the AI features of Qualcomm based systems, or about top-line performance numbers. What I want to see is power efficiency. I want a Windows laptop with the same or better battery life of an equivalent Mac. And while there is some validity to the author's concern hardware drivers, I would point out that a lot of common hardware (printers especially) has much more support for standardized protocols built into Windows than would have been true 20 years ago.

Locked bootloader. Locked into windows until they no longer support the device and then it's garbage.

0 people surprised that devices that are all about AI hype don't live up to the hype.

The ASUS VivoBook S 15 seems to be well reviewed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717261

sigh, I held off getting a new AMD 7840u (now 8840u?) laptop in case snapdragon elite would live up to the hype. Guess it won't, in this incarnation.

Got mine in today (Surface Pro 11th Gen). Overall a big meh. Performance was okay, Battery life was okay. Returning mine due to Microsoft's lackluster Surface line being the actual worst machine I've used in years. Most things ran aside from Persona 5 for some reason.

attention whores (semiaccurate)