Leaked Dell docs suggest Qualcomm's new laptop chips could deliver nearly twice the battery life of the latest Intel CPUs

A leaked internal presentation by Dell on its forthcoming laptop models continues to give up interesting nuggets, this time a slide notes that Qualcomm's Snapdragon X processors are cheaper and less energy-hungry thanof Intel's recent chips, including Meteor Lake. So much so, that in some cases, battery life in equivalent laptops is extended by as much as 98%. And all that's done with chips that are half the price.just a few days ago.

What might surprise some is that despite being a brand-new design, Qualcomm is substantially under-cutting Intel on price. Dell estimated it will need to pay $145 for a 10-coreEven if Intel's processor is notably faster than Qualcomm's offering, that price is clearly going to be very enticing to Dell. Budget and mainstream laptops typically have small profit margins, so anything that can be used to slice $100 to 150 off the BOM is going to be snapped up.

Dell's presentation clearly shows Apple as being its chief competitor, noting that the M2 Macbook Air retails at $1,199 for an 8GB RAM, 256GB SDD model. The target customer for the Snapdragon X laptops is probably not going to worry about a price difference of a few hundred dollars and instead will want something that either looks the part or has a great battery life, especially when consuming media.

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