This is such a bizarre story. First as others pointed out 1 in 125 is 0.8% not 0.008%. They presumably forgot the 100 but in percent conversions. It's presumably 0.8% as if it's 0.008% then they're saying 9billion devices were sold on the last quarter. At 0.8% it's 90million laptop devices. They later say 20% of all laptop sales were AI laptops at 13.3 million which would be 66.5 million laptops overall, not 90milljon. 720,000 would actually 1.1% of all laptops and 5.4% of the AI subcategory.

So whoever wrote the article doesn't seem to know how to do basic maths? They also don't make clear how they arrived at their figures with these contradictory figures elsewhere in their own article.

But the main thing is this whole story is some bizarre idea that a new device getting nearly 1% of global sales in its first quarter is doing badly?

To me that's actually good? But maybe the manufacturer had some crazy expectations? Or maybe the writers think that all products should behave like incumbents?

This reads like shitty journalism - trying to make big claims to get clicks. I have no idea if the product is doing well or not versus expectations, but I don't trust this articles take on it.

I'm personally skeptical about the "AI" bullshit in these products, but I do think the power efficiency of ARM chips may give these Snapdragon X a chance to take market share from traditional chips.

Their math is fucked.

1 in 125 devices would be 0.8%, whereas 0.008% would be 1 in 12500 devices. I mean I guess technically 1 in 12500 is "less than" 1 in 125 devices, but come on.

They later note that it captured "less than 1.5%" of the ecosystem, which... yeah, the numbers they already gave us support that, but by how much? We have no idea, because of their fucked up math.

I assume "1 in 125" is correct, because otherwise, to have sold 720,000 units, there would have had to be about 9 billion total sales in that period.

It's just an expensive paperweight until we can run Linux on it.

0.008% is 1 in 12,500, not 1 in 125...well, technically it is still less than 1 in 125, but I doubt that's what they mean.

My neighbor bought one, it didn't boot / light up. He sent it back to get a new one.

He's happy so far as you can tell...

I bought mine a month ago and I am very happy with it so far. The efficiency is very impressive.

I had number of Windows laptops including 2 versions of the earlier Surfaces before and this one finally somehow feels like not having issues with running the OS. If I need Linux, I run WSL on it and it even runs Unreal Engine simple scenes in editor on 60 FPS so I can prepare my lectures on it in the train without needing to use the charger.

And somehow they ignore anything related to ARM software compatibility

With Lunar Lake proving that x86 can contend with ARM if it wants to, I'm not sure why anyone would consider these laptops which perform about the same but with compatibility issues.

How about a big Snapdragon laptop sale?

Maybe if Microsoft hadn't fucked it up first time around, it would have done better.
I think if they have done it properly now, like Apple did at their first attempt, these will soon ( a couple of years ) outsell X86 laptops.

I just recently bought my framework and would not like to upgrade this soon. However, I really want a Qualcomm Mobo for my framework to come out. Or a competitive risk V, but that’s probably a pipe dream until I actually need an upgrade

Should have sold at all price points, not just high end.

Needs less AI bullshit and then maybe I'd consider it.