From the June 4th article: "These patches are a result of a collaboration between a couple of Qualcomm engineers taking part in an internal sprint and were created over 3 days."
They've been upstreaming drivers for the X2 platform for months at this point, since at least late 2025 (just search "glymur" or "kaanapali" on LKML).
The patch referenced in the Phoronix article is just a device tree file. That is the easiest part of the whole thing. As usual he's just farming every random LKML patch he can for clicks.
The open source world has a habit of leaving the easiest part of the whole thing unfinished for years or decades, so I salute this patch and I salute Phoronix for calling attention to it.
That's crazy, $4,586 for 32 GB RAM? Asus is selling an X2 Elite Extreme laptop with 48 GB RAM for $1,699.99 and it's in stock at Best Buy today. What is HP thinking?
From the June 4th article: "These patches are a result of a collaboration between a couple of Qualcomm engineers taking part in an internal sprint and were created over 3 days."
it's not giving me any warm and fuzzy.
They've been upstreaming drivers for the X2 platform for months at this point, since at least late 2025 (just search "glymur" or "kaanapali" on LKML).
The patch referenced in the Phoronix article is just a device tree file. That is the easiest part of the whole thing. As usual he's just farming every random LKML patch he can for clicks.
The open source world has a habit of leaving the easiest part of the whole thing unfinished for years or decades, so I salute this patch and I salute Phoronix for calling attention to it.
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I used to believe, but now it seems to me that AMD and Intel will match Snapdragon's efficiency on x86 before that stuff is stable.
holy hell.. the price tags...!
That's crazy, $4,586 for 32 GB RAM? Asus is selling an X2 Elite Extreme laptop with 48 GB RAM for $1,699.99 and it's in stock at Best Buy today. What is HP thinking?
At some point, RAM arbitrage will be profitable at small scale: buy a complete PC, rip the RAM out, dump the rest and resell online.
$4,300-$6,000+, wow you're not wrong. And that's just 32 or 64 GB of RAM.
Something has gone wrong at HP. They are also charging $7,000 for Strix Halo.
HP is nuts
HPE I've had very good luck with for HCI.
why on earth would anyone buy that shit if you can buy a macbook pro that literally looks and feels like art vs. a plastic windows laptop?
it used to be that Apple was the pricier option but I guess not anymore
someone who doesn't want apple experience? I really don't need "art" computer if I'm not able to do what I want on it.
The ability to run Linux properly would be worth about a $1000, if it was reality. But it isn't, so...
macos desktop aesthetics have regressed, they managed to screw the rounded corners and the colors are too much
macbook m series processor laptops have the camera notch and frankenturd look and feel
thinkpads feel better and the hinge opens all the way
The problem with MacBook is that they have a shit OS...
Of course a 1000$+ windows laptop is going to look and feel like a low end 300$ one /s