Qualcomm’s new eight-core Snapdragon X Plus makes these Windows laptops cheaper

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A silver laptop, partially opened, with a peach hue illuminating its keys and its Snapdragon X Plus badge, next to a small black square inset with a silver square representing the chip inside.

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Qualcomm launched its first big wave of Windows laptops this summer for $999 and up, but a new, somewhat weaker chip could soon shave off at least $100. Today, the company is announcing its first eight-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new Asus Vivobook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 that’ll retail for $899 each. The Asus is already available at Best Buy.

Acer, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung should also have new Snapdragon X Plus laptops coming soon, like the $999 Acer Swift Go 14 AI. A new 15-inch model of the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge is coming in October.


While the new Qualcomm chips have all the same features as the 10-core and 12-core models, they’re decidedly weaker in some ways, especially graphics. On average, they’ve...

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