So, I went out with my daughter to look at laptops for back-to-school and the store was dominated by Windows machines with Snapdragon X Elite chips at very reasonable prices. The energy efficiency, battery life, and quietness of these laptops is amazing. Also, I notice they all have these new NPU chips for AI, which I’m ambivalent about.
I’m a Linux-on-Thinkpad man, so I checked online and was happy to see that Lenovo is offering Snapdragon-based Thinkpads now. With these new developments, maybe it is finally time to upgrade my old T540p.
Has anyone here had experience yet running Linux on a Snapdragon-based laptop?
Just to clear up confusion, the Thinkpad you linked is an older model. There is a new one with the Elite processor OP talked about.
From everything I can tell though, Lenovo has been very active getting Linux ready for ARM Thinkpads, so I’d assume it could be coming soon.