Copilot+ PCs are about to enter their confusing era with the Asus Zenbook S 16, as we welcome x86 to the party — bringing its own set of pros and cons that I’ll go into.
To talk about what’s going on here, the first of these new laptops packing Snapdragon X Elite rely on Arm processing. This is a mobile-first chip architecture that breaks down complex tasks into the barebones instructions and completes a single one with every tick of that processor’s clock cycle (otherwise known as Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC).
