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01-03-2020, 03:11 AM
Samsung’s Galaxy Book S debuted at the company’s Unpacked 2019 event in New York, a surprise addition to the widely expected announcement of the company’s Galaxy S10 and S10+ phablets (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3430320/samsung-galaxy-note-10-plus-hands-on.html). Starting at $1,000, the other surprise is the CPU inside: Qualcomm’s spanking-new, octo-core Snapdragon 8cx.
Update Jan. 2, 2020: Samsung has officially confirmed the Galaxy Book S will ship in the first quarter of 2020, and not in September 2019.
Qualcomm’s taken a few prior stabs at running a laptop on Snapdragon—no small feat given the need to emulate Windows 10. So far the results have been mixed at best, sacrificing perhaps a bit too much performance for battery life. However, when Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8cx (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3325329/qualcomms-snapdragon-8cx-for-pcs-aims-to-overcome-the-performance-gap.html) late last year, the company claimed it was built from the ground up for laptops. The 8cx later posted promising benchmarks (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3397783/qualcomm-snapdragon-8cx-benchmarks-vs-core-i5.html) when we saw it on a reference laptop at Computex in Taipei. This is our first look at the new CPU in a shipping unit.Â-
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Update Jan. 2, 2020: Samsung has officially confirmed the Galaxy Book S will ship in the first quarter of 2020, and not in September 2019.
Qualcomm’s taken a few prior stabs at running a laptop on Snapdragon—no small feat given the need to emulate Windows 10. So far the results have been mixed at best, sacrificing perhaps a bit too much performance for battery life. However, when Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8cx (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3325329/qualcomms-snapdragon-8cx-for-pcs-aims-to-overcome-the-performance-gap.html) late last year, the company claimed it was built from the ground up for laptops. The 8cx later posted promising benchmarks (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3397783/qualcomm-snapdragon-8cx-benchmarks-vs-core-i5.html) when we saw it on a reference laptop at Computex in Taipei. This is our first look at the new CPU in a shipping unit.Â-
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More... (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3430797/hands-on-samsungs-galaxy-book-s-with-qualcomm-snapdragon-8cx.html#tk.rss_all)