Snapdragon X Elite Battery Life Tested: Can It Beat Apple's M3?
New Snapdragon X Elite laptops promise long battery life. See how they compare to Apple's M3 MacBooks in this head-to-head battery test.
Snapdragon X Elite Laptops Tested Against MacBooks on Battery Life: Not Quite There Yet The new Snapdragon X Elite ARM processor from Qualcomm promised a battery life revolution for Windows laptops, hoping to finally rival Apple's impressive endurance. Tom's Hardware put these claims to the test, focusing on the battery performance of several Snapdragon X Elite-powered devices. The Results are In: Promising but Not Revolutionary Using a web browsing test over Wi-Fi at 150 nits screen brightness, here's how the Snapdragon X Elite laptops fared: Model Battery Life Screen Battery Surface Pro 12h 14m 13", 2880x1920, OLED 53 Wh Surface Laptop 13.8 15h 37m 13.8", 2304x1536, IPS 54 Wh Surface Laptop 15 14h 29m 15", 2496x1664, IPS 66 Wh HP Omnibook X 15h 48m 14", 2240x1400, IPS 59 Wh The Surface Pro, while exceeding its predecessor (Surface Pro 9 with Microsoft SQ3) by a small margin, only reached 12 hours and 14 minutes. Other Snapdragon X Elite laptops performed better, with the HP…