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you might’t see, but I’m doing one of those Captain Picard-esque facepalms.
Breaking news:Snapdragon X Elitelaptops arenotgaming laptops and never have been.
Breaking news: This is not a gaming laptop.
Can they play games?
Yes, they can, to varying degrees.
But they are not gaming laptops.
THIS is a gaming laptop.
Those are the facts.
As good as integrated graphics have become, you wouldn’t buy aDell XPS 13as a serious gaming machine.
This quote seems to sum up the angle.
This is Control running on a Snapdragon X Elite laptop, and it’s perfectly playable while looking pretty good.
But gamers aren’t the only people who exist.
Snapdragon X laptops, for example, have huge potential in the lucrative enterprise space.
Yes, gamers are power users and spend tens of billions every year.
7 Days to Die is another title that runs well on Snapdragon with Auto SR support. I know because I took the image.
But they’re not the only people buying laptops.
Snapdragon X laptops are the first of a new generation of slim, light, highly performant portable PCs.
We’re only just at the beginning, and comparisons to Apple are always going to be drawn.
We’re still on the first.
The Steam Deck suffers the same issues with the same software.
Without anti-cheat being updated to run on the platform, usually it just won’t work.
Blame the cheaters for this stuff having to exist at all.
Riot Games uses an aggressive kernel-level anti-cheat, so I’m not expecting support for that any time soon.
But referring back to the start of this post, these are not gaming laptops.
Microsoft could always have done more, but it isn’t standing still.
“Copilot+ PCs aren’t gaming laptops, but gaming is important to a lot of people.
That’s where Auto SR can really make a difference, albeit in very limited form right now.
But DLSS started off small, too, and look where that is now.
This stuff takes time.
Can I play all the games I want to play?
No, I can’t.
But the same is true on my Steam Deck.
Unless you buy a Windows gaming laptop with the necessary hardware, there will always be compromise.
If gaming is important to you, do what you should have always done to this point.
Buy a gaming laptop.
Can we stop with the sensationalist headlines trashing this stuff yet?
