Happy Snapdragon X Elite Day!

The first around the new arm—based silicon that seems to be set to really challenge the best Macbook in both performance and battery life is Dell out of the gate, and to say that the company is ""in"" to Qualcomm's new standard would be an understatement. Inspirons, and (most appetizing to me), are looking at the new Dell XPS13 armed with the X Elite.

Let's start with the biggest announcement of the bunch. We absolutely love the Dell XPS13 (taking the DNA of the XPS13Plus), but a common obstacle to this lineage was the moment of overwhelming battery life and thermal throttling.

Switching Intel to choose between Snapdragon X Elite or X Plus should solve many of these problems (on paper). Beyond this, the hardware and configuration remain the same: a gorgeous CNC machined aluminum shell with Gorilla glass palm rest/touchpad, 55whr battery, up to 64GB of Lpddr5X RAM and potential 4TB of SSD storage.

Next, I got the low-end Dell Inspiron14 and 14Plus-Both come with Snapdragon X Plus. It's the very same story here in terms of keeping the same hardware as what you've seen from Intel's counterparts, but just switch guts

and you have a Dell latitude of work-mindedness with a taste of either the X Plus or the X Elite. The 7455's 14-inch 16:10 aspect ratio display is perfect for work, and with up to 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM and a 1TB SSD, there are various variations in specifications that make this machine fit for any workload. Oh, and the green credentials are a chassis designed with a battery that packs recycled aluminum and 50% recycled cobalt

Of course, this is just a whistlestop tour — after all, what we have here is basically the same outer rack with new internal organs. It is the top of the list. But there are some other surprising changes.

First, the flip to qualcomm means that these have all been upgraded to support Wi-Fi7. That means it supports outrageous speeds of up to 46Gbps (from 9.6Gbps Wi-Fi6). Then, as we learned about the Snapdragon X chip, we're getting a beast-like NPU with the potential to perform 45 trillion operations per second (45TOPs). 

And finally, if the benchmark we're seeing is believable from the reference design, you can challenge something like the m3MacBook Air, and when it comes to pricing, we're not sure yet about latitude or the standard Inspiron14, but the new XPS13 and Inspiron14Plus are pre-order available today, and that's what we're looking for. They are available in respectvely1,299 and 1 to 1,099, respectively.

As it drops over the next few days, more Snapdragon news, and for our opinion on these laptops, keep it locked in Tom's guide when we get to review them. Something tells us that we are starting to see the next big moment for Microsoft, similar to the Apple silicon tectonic shift.