Seems pretty solid, but really nothing revolutionary. The battery life tests seem a bit pointless with so vastly different laptops, and that would have been one of the most interesting aspect.
Was that result for this SKU or the higher ones? I think there are supposed to be two other versions that clock a bit higher, which will likely reduce battery life though.
But you are right the hype cycle was extremely long and doesn’t really mesh with the middling results.
Seems pretty solid, but really nothing revolutionary. The battery life tests seem a bit pointless with so vastly different laptops, and that would have been one of the most interesting aspect.
There is a big delta between the marketing and hype (that they started almost a year before release) and the actual results.
This was to be expected though, it was clear that they were notably malicious in their PR strategy.
For example, the first geekbench 6 results that they posted were completely disconnected from reality:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/3326083
3,233 ST / 16,947 MT; seems to be running on 100% fans, on the power cord and running some custom, internal build of linux.
Was that result for this SKU or the higher ones? I think there are supposed to be two other versions that clock a bit higher, which will likely reduce battery life though.
But you are right the hype cycle was extremely long and doesn’t really mesh with the middling results.
This a lower end X Elite (their intro series is called X Plus), so yes it doesn’t clock as high as the top end X Elite SKU.