The war for ARM-based laptop dominance is here. After three years of Apple Silicon digging itself into position, Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite arrives as the not-so-secret weapon that Windows on ARM desperately needed to launch a full-scale attack on Apple's fortifications. The Asus Vivobook S15 joins the first Snapdragon X Elite laptops launched in June to meet the M2 and M3-powered MacBooks on the battlefield.
Ever since launching the first laptops, the Laptop Mag team has pitted them against their MacBook counterparts to see which would come out on top. Snapdragon X Elite laptops at the MacBooks to see which would come out on top. We've seen some close skirmishes with laptops from Lenovo and Dell beating the MacBook Air in multiple critical categories, but an overall victory still evades them.
