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If this ThinkPad and the Surface Pro 9 (see p44) are any indication, there is a growing confidence among laptop manufacturers that Windows is a genuine contender on the ARM platform. Not only for consumers, but businesses too.
Here, Lenovo opts for the third generation of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx platform, which was announced in December 2021 with great fanfare. The big promise? That this 5nm system-on-a-chip would deliver almost twice the speed of its Gen 2 predecessor at 60% of the consumption per watt of its AMD and Intel rivals.
There were other promises, too: enhanced videoconferencing, clearer audio, superior artificial intelligence capabilities, added security in partnership with Microsoft. It was enough to put Qualcomm in a boastful mood, claiming that hordes of Snapdragon-powered laptops and 2-in-1s would
