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Obviously, I use and love laptops.
I use one pretty much every day, but at heart, I’m a desktop PC user.
The new Snapdragon X Elite developer kit.
I’m clearly not alone, either.
Be it gamers, office environments, general family users, the desktop PC is alive and well.
OK, that’s not entirely accurate, there is one.
The new Snapdragon X Elite developer kit.
But it’s not meant for consumers.
Meanwhile, the competition, Apple, has four desktop machines powered by its ARM-based M-series chips.
Not all of them are super expensive, either.
Love it or hate it, the Apple Silicon Mac Mini is an incredible piece of hardware.
The Mac Mini is the entry point, and it starts at a very reasonable $599.
That’s what I want Windows users to have.
An affordable, yet powerful desktop PC.
I want a Qualcomm-powered Mac Mini and I want it yesterday.
The hardware is pretty perfect, though admittedly, the price less so.
But then, it’s not a consumer product, so what it costs isn’t really an issue.
Inside it packs a 12-core Snapdragon X Elite, 32GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD.
It’s well kitted with ports, and it’s all wrapped up inside a neat little black box.
And it’s $300 more than the entry-level Mac Mini with the normal M2.
Regardless of how much better it might be, $300 is a lot.
And that’s why I want to see someone make a consumer version.
Something like this starting at that same $599 price point with a Snapdragon X Plus would be killer.
At least, the hardware, anyway.
For day-to-day use it was fast, it was quiet, and it was efficient.
The base model right now has the Apple M2 and costs $599.
That’s a great piece of hardware for that price.
This is all housed in a versatile design that merges a tablet’s portability with a laptop’s robustness.
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