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I wonder what's the Linux experience/support on this laptop
Literally what I was wondering, lol. My first thought was "how well does it run Debian?"
OTOH, I really don't want to contribute to a sale that may make MS or the hardware manufacturers think people want this AI crap. I just want a beefy ARM laptop that runs Linux lol.
Well, actually, what if I want AI "crap" capability with my Linux ARM laptop?
The TOPS on those systems are no joke. Consider that it's 1/2 the performance of an RTX 2060 in a slim laptop form factor.
Edit: The performance variance is still the same. 2060 can do almost 13 TFLOPS fp16 or about 102 TOPS measured (this figure is on other sites too, this is what I can find atm). SD Elite X can do 45 TOPS. Not bad, considering existing x86_64 CPUs with an NPU do 10-16 TOPS.
Don't confuse TFLOPs and TOPs. Especially when the latter is 4-bit integer operations.