First-wave Copilot+ PC laptops from HP, Lenovo and Microsoft built to compete with the Apple MacBook Air deliver great user experience and spectacular battery life.
I have been following along for the whole Copilot+ PC journey since it started with Qualcomm announcing the Snapdragon X Elite processor last year in Hawaii. I attendedCopilot+ PCs and what they mean for the Windows ecosystem and the broader AI landscape
For Wi-Fi, Lenovo and Microsoft opted for Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi 7 chipset, while HP went for Qualcomm’s older Wi-Fi 6E chipset, which I was not expecting. Ultimately, these PCs are going to need good Wi-Fi connectivity, and I was a little surprised to see HP not go for the best-in-class option. All three laptops come in under 3 pounds, which is also a spec that I believe Microsoft and the PC OEMs tried to hit with these systems. Not coincidentally, the MacBook Air 13 weighs 2.7 pounds.
For content creation, I set up my own test suite for Lightroom, taking 236 different 61MP RAW images and processing them into 100% full-size JPEGs at full quality. I established a baseline with my desktop of 2 minutes 23 seconds; for reference, my desktop features a 16-Core AMD 7950X and RTX 4080 Super GPU with 48GB of Patriot 6000 MT/s DDR5 memory. Working from this baseline, these laptops did an incredible job of processing this considerable workload at roughly 5 minutes each.
As someone who primarily uses desktops, I absolutely hate the experience of grabbing a laptop on my way out the door, only to realize later that the laptop has died because I didn’t put it on the charger before I left. With these laptops, you can get anywhere from two to threeof standby time based on my experience, which is incredible because it really makes these laptops always ready to go when you need them.
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