Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments
The Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows in a transparent shell; most if not all units will be black. | Image: Qualcomm
Excited for an era of long-lasting powerful Windows laptops with Arm chips and 45 TOPS for AI but would rather pay less and plug into the wall? Qualcomm has just revealed a Mac Mini-esque box that’s ostensibly just for developers.
The new $899.99 “Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows” houses the most powerful of Qualcomm’s lineup of Snapdragon X Elite chips — the one with the 4.6 TFLOP GPU — as well as 32GB of LPDDR5x RAM, 512GB of NVMe storage, and lots of ports, all within roughly the same volume as Apple’s mini desktop.
Image: Qualcomm
Image: Qualcomm
While the spec sheet unfortunately suggests the two-pound PC will only ship in black — not the transparent model at the top of this post — the eight- by seven- by 1.3-inch PC does have Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, and enough oomph to run three 4K monitors at once.
Ports include three USB4 ports with Type-C connectors, a pair of USB 3.2 ports with Type-A, ethernet, 3.5mm audio, and HDMI. So if you want to go the multi-monitor route, expect to plug in at least one USB-C cable or adapter.
Image: Qualcomm
Speaking of adapters, what you won’t find in Qualcomm’s images here is the power brick: it’s got an external 180W AC adapter.
While the Dev Kit might be more cost-effective than the new wave of Microsoft Copilot Plus PC laptops that include similar Qualcomm chips, it’s not by much: the Surface Laptop 6 starts at $999.99 and obviously comes with its own screen. And it’s not clear just anyone will be able to buy the Dev Kit: Qualcomm’s landing page currently points to a contact form that you may need to fill out to get one.
The Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows in a transparent shell; most if not all units will be black. | Image: Qualcomm
Excited for an era of long-lasting powerful Windows laptops with Arm chips and 45 TOPS for AI but would rather pay less and plug into the wall? Qualcomm has just revealed a Mac Mini-esque box that’s ostensibly just for developers.
The new $899.99 “Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows” houses the most powerful of Qualcomm’s lineup of Snapdragon X Elite chips — the one with the 4.6 TFLOP GPU — as well as 32GB of LPDDR5x RAM, 512GB of NVMe storage, and lots of ports, all within roughly the same volume as Apple’s mini desktop.
Image: Qualcomm
Image: Qualcomm
While the spec sheet unfortunately suggests the two-pound PC will only ship in black — not the transparent model at the top of this post — the eight- by seven- by 1.3-inch PC does have Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, and enough oomph to run three 4K monitors at once.
Ports include three USB4 ports with Type-C connectors, a pair of USB 3.2 ports with Type-A, ethernet, 3.5mm audio, and HDMI. So if you want to go the multi-monitor route, expect to plug in at least one USB-C cable or adapter.
Image: Qualcomm
Speaking of adapters, what you won’t find in Qualcomm’s images here is the power brick: it’s got an external 180W AC adapter.
While the Dev Kit might be more cost-effective than the new wave of Microsoft Copilot Plus PC laptops that include similar Qualcomm chips, it’s not by much: the Surface Laptop 6 starts at $999.99 and obviously comes with its own screen. And it’s not clear just anyone will be able to buy the Dev Kit: Qualcomm’s landing page currently points to a contact form that you may need to fill out to get one.