Things aren’t looking too rosy for Snapdragon X Elite PCs. Although they made an initial splash in the market, combining excellent battery life with mid- to high-end performance, the machines’ popularity suffered due to software support issues. As an example, Phoronix data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy2025″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy2025″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>ran Linux performance tests on the SoC, and there have been significant regressions in just a few months.
Phoronix’s software setup is arguably a best-case scenario for the chip as of this writing. The site used the latest Ubuntu 25.10…
