The fastest Snapdragon X Elite on any Copilot+ PC and a gorgeous screen are pluses, but this laptop would be better with a little more RAM and a little more battery life.
When Qualcomm and Microsoft launched the Copilot+ platform featuring the Snapdragon X Elite processor, the one SKU that I had the highest hopes for among all the participating OEMs was the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 16—because it would be the only one shipping with the fastest version of the Snapdragon X Elite . Now I have spent a few weeks testing this laptop using my typical daily workloads.
Considering that Samsung is the world’s leading memory manufacturer, it made some other questionable decisions on this laptop. It bumped the storage to 1TB with the CPU upgrade, but kept the RAM at 16GB, which feels like a missed opportunity to differentiate from the competition by offering 32GB of RAM. Unsurprisingly, the Book4 Edge 16 is also well-equipped with connectivity, including a full-size HDMI port, which none of the other laptops I’ve tested thus far has.
All in all, this is not the Snapdragon X Elite Copilot+ PC you want for the best battery life; this is the one you get for the best performance. That said, we don’t know how it stacks up against comparable models using AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 series or Intel’s Lunar Lake processors; both will be coming soon, and I’m excited to compare them.
Overall, the Book4 Edge is more competitive in both performance and features than the MacBook Air 15, although it would be my recommendation to not splurge on the absolute top SKU but rather opt for the 16GB + 512GB variant with the slightly slower processor. I believe that model will probably perform almost identically to the MacBook Air, have better battery life and save you a few hundred dollars.
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