Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite, the latest champion of Windows on Arm, may soon see a pairing with Linux. Tuxedo showed off its prototype for a Snapdragon X Elite laptop shipping with Linux at Computex 2024, with a tentative release coming before the end of the year.
Tuxedo Computers, based out of Germany, hopes to bring high-power Arm processing to a hungry Linux community. Being developed under codename "Drako," its first prototype promises interesting specs. The display is a 16:10 IPS panel running at 2560x1600, with a peak brightness of 400 nits — no word on refresh rates, though Tuxedo has shipped notebooks as fast as 165Hz before. The powerful SoC will be paired with 32GB LPDDR5X RAM and a PCIe Gen 4 SSD of unknown capacity, all housed inside an aluminum body.
