r/SnapdragonLaptops

Their test environment was a Razer Thunderbolt dock with an NVMe slot combined with an NVMe to OCuLink adapter to connect an RTX 4060 8GB so there could be potentially better performance extracted if they had gone with a direct USB4 eGPU dock.

Cyberpunk 2077 averaged 44 FPS with the Ray Tracing Low Preset at 1440p and DLSS set to automatic.

Forza Horizon 6 had big framerate drop issues but otherwise averaged 46 FPS overall at a render resolution of 1707×960 (DLSS was on) and Medium preset indicating some sort of CPU bottleneck likely due to emulation.

Hey all, hoping for some input from the community here.

I run a MacBook Pro I intend to keep for legacy coding (Blockchain, older applications). In parallel I run a 5 year old, top spec XPS 9500 (64 GB RAM, dedicated GPU, 4k touch screen). I mostly love that machine and prefer windows, but the battery life is like an hour, fan noise is terrible, and it's heavy as hell.

Goal is to run legacy coding on the MacBook and use the A16 for AI-supoorted coding (doing much less coding lately as my team has taken over) and run the A16 as my mostly daily driver for business, travel, etc. I dislike doing administrative/excel/word/etc work on the MacBook. Screen is only 14" and it's underpowered at 16 GB. But I love the battery and silence.

Do you think the A16 will replace the XPS for my use, and do you think I'd like it given my use case? Are people hitting ARM walls with this machine while coding (I know the specific incompatible software, but has anyone coding/building/creating run into an issue that made you regret purchasing an ARM?).

TIA for the feedback!

New to the windows on arm experience and sleep/wake seem to work pretty well when I'm just using my lenovo spin 3x as a notebook, with the built in trackpad/keyboard.

When I'm using it as a desktop with an external usb mouse/keyboard/monitor, however, I'm having issues. Most of the time the external mouse/keyboard won't wake the notebook, and often when it does wake (whether by external device or the built in keyboard) the external KB/Mouse may not work (sometimes one or the other, sometimes both). Sometimes I get multiple usb connect/disconnect chimes/sounds.

I've de-selected "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power," on the usb devices/ports. "Allow this device to wake the computer." is grayed out on the devices/ports, so I can't do anything there. I'v tried with fast startup enable and disabled. Both windows and lenovo's built in software tell me all drives are up to date. Bios options are pretty limited and I don't see a wake option on usb in there.

Right now I'm having to hibernate as it's the only guaranteed way my external mouse and KB work after startup....