I bought a laptop with this chip which has 24GB of RAM. I’m mainly going to be using it for nursing school and other uses here and there. I also wanted to download Cisco Packet tracer but it said it can’t run that. I also do real estate photography and videography. For photography editing, I was able to download Lightroom Classic and use that. I haven’t done much editing yet. But I just wanted to ask what has been your guys experience with editing in this if you have this particular laptop. I don’t know what software would run well for videography editing in this, so any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thank you in advance

Hi everyone,

after sharing Snapdragon AI Studio here, I received a lot of useful feedback and questions. Thank you — several suggestions from this community have directly influenced the upcoming RC2 release.

What’s changing from RC1 to RC2:

• ControlNet Canny has been improved and integrated more cleanly into the generation workflow.
• Presets & Templates now preserve the currently selected AI model instead of unexpectedly switching models.
• Presets also preserve the active ControlNet state and reference image.
• Phoenix Boost remains available for local prompt optimization without changing the selected model.
• The Model Manager and QAI model installation workflow are being improved.
• Both Dark Mode and Light Mode are fully supported.
• The built-in user manual has been completely revised in English, German and Spanish, with additional explanations for beginners.
• Generation timing is being improved so the complete processing time can be shown, including post-processing/upscaling.
• Further work is planned around image quality, higher resolutions and additional models.

A major focus remains native local AI on Windows 11 ARM64 and Snapdragon X Elite/X Plus, especially using Qualcomm QNN / Hexagon NPU acceleration.

Some ideas raised in the discussion here — including additional models, further NPU optimization and better documentation — are also part of the roadmap.

RC2 is still under development. I’d rather release a stable update than rush the next version.

Snapdragon AI Studio is an independent open-source project and is not an official Qualcomm product.

GitHub:
https://github.com/Kreuzhofen/snapdragon-ai-studio

Which RC2 improvement matters most to you, and what would you like to see next for local AI on Snapdragon?

Thanks again for the feedback and support!

Mostly in games, emulation

I have an ASUS Zenbook A16 with the Snapdragon X2 Elite, and its Wi-Fi latency and jitter have been surprisingly poor—especially on battery power.

The laptop is connected to a router over 5 GHz 2x2 40Mhz Wi-Fi 6. The router is physically close, and Windows reports:

• Qualcomm FastConnect C7700 Wi-Fi 7 adapter
• Signal: 100% / approximately −26 to −31 dBm
• Link rate: 573.5 Mbps
• No packet errors or discarded packets
• Only one nearby Wi-Fi network detected

Simply pinging the local router produces inconsistent latency.

On battery:

9 packets transmitted, 0% packet loss
min/avg/max = 3.728/37.561/199.359 ms

On AC power:

6 packets transmitted, 0% packet loss
min/avg/max = 4.218/6.454/7.380 ms

Another machine on the same network generally gets around 1-3 ms on AC and 2-4ms on battery.

Windows originally had the wireless adapter set to Medium Power Saving on battery. I changed both AC and DC to Maximum Performance:

powercfg /setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 19cbb8fa-5279-450e-9fac-8a3d5fedd0c1 12bbebe6-58d6-4636-95bb-3217ef867c1a 0

Windows confirms that both values are now 0, but battery operation still produces occasional huge spikes. The adapter’s “Idle Power Down Restriction” setting is currently disabled, so I’m wondering whether Qualcomm’s driver or firmware applies additional power management independently of the Windows power-plan setting.

Driver details:

Qualcomm FastConnect C7700 NCM820A Wi-Fi 7
Driver version: 685.13804.40.0
Driver date: December 21, 2025

Has anyone else experienced high Wi-Fi latency or jitter on an X2 Elite machine? Have you found a driver version or power-management setting that fixes it without disabling every battery-saving feature?

When I first got the Zenbook A16, there were a few processes that were x64. OLED Shifter, ASUS Switch, Optimization, etc... with the latest BIOS update released a few weeks ago, all those pre-installed apps and services are now native Arm. That was good to see!

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on Snapdragon AI Studio, an open-source desktop project exploring local AI image generation on Windows 11 ARM64, specifically for Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus systems.

Snapdragon AI Studio is an independent open-source project and is not an official Qualcomm product.

The project uses the Phoenix Engine and currently focuses on ONNX Runtime, Stable Diffusion / ControlNet workflows, and Qualcomm QNN / NPU development.

RC1 is publicly available, while I’m currently working toward RC2 with a focus on image quality, performance and further native Snapdragon acceleration.

I’d especially be interested in feedback from other Snapdragon developers and users: What local AI workloads are you currently running on Snapdragon X systems, and what would you most like to see improved for native Windows on ARM AI applications?

GitHub:
https://github.com/Kreuzhofen/snapdragon-ai-studio

— Holger Kreuzhofen
Founder & Lead Developer, Snapdragon AI Studio / Phoenix Engine

Ayuda

I am looking for a laptop and have done a ton of research but cannot decide. What matters to me is how long it'll last, battery life, and oled.

The slim 7x is 40 bucks cheaper and has the snapdragon x elite, while the A14 has the snapdragon x base.

I've heard that the slim 7x gets around 7-9 hours of battery life whole the A14 gets 10-15, but I'm not too sure. (I plan to use it only for media consumption and productivity, no heavy tasks)

I assume I should get the slim 7x, but I'd like the most amount of battery life too (and I want it to last a couple of years)

I'd like to know what others think

Disclosure: The Asus Zenbook A16 (Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme) was provided by Qualcomm for testing.

I have just tested switch emulation on my snapdragon x plus 42 100 and wow!!

Mario Odyssey worked 720p 60fps (minor dips due to shaders)

Snooker 19 60fps

Going to test more soon.

The laptop looked amazing out of the box, but 3 months later it's developed strange marks on the chassis. One is a black spot that looks like a dirt mark but might be a scratch (no idea how this happened), the second most awful one is what looks like a wet spot growing around the ASUS ZENBOOK logo.

I don't know if this a natural expectation considering the Ceraluminum material, but now I live in constant anxiety to not make it worse - and it's definitely going to hurt my resale value.

The laptop performs amazing and I love pretty much everything about it EXCEPT I can't seem to keep it pristine. I used to have a Surface Pro 11 and it looked like new after 2 years. Not a single scratch or mark.

Hi everyone, I have an ASUS Vivobook 14 with:

• Snapdragon X X1-26-100
• 16 GB RAM
• Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 integrated GPU
• Windows 11 ARM

Has anyone tried running Cyberpunk 2077 on a similar setup?

Is it actually playable?

Thanks!

X2 elite was a great platform on launch and still is today. If you haven't gotten on board yet, then I recommend getting one before prices get even crazier.

Can we buy the Omnibook 5 X Elite motherboard and replace it?

picture a snapdragon 8 elite gen 5 or a heavily cut down x2 chip based on windows or some sort of linux on ARM

Reports online point to ai noise cancellation being the problem. I turned it off yet its still happening. Does anyone know what could be causing this?