TL;DRSamsung’s Galaxy Book6 Edge is the first Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop, but its $2,100 US model ships with just 16GB of soldered RAM.
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Book6 Edge, the first laptop to ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite processor. The chip delivers 80 trillion operations per second from its neural processing unit, double the 45 TOPS that defined the first generation of Copilot+ PCs. It is also the thinnest Galaxy Book Samsung has ever made, at 12.3 millimetres.
The machine costs $2,099.99 in the United States. It ships with 16GB of soldered LPDDR5x RAM that cannot be upgraded.
That combination, a $2,100 price tag and 16GB of non-replaceable memory in a laptop marketed as an AI workstation, is the most notable thing about an otherwise impressive piece of hardware. Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7x, which runs on the previous-generation Snapdragon X Elite, offers 32GB of RAM for $1,899. Samsung sells a 32GB configuration of the Galaxy Book6 Edge in some international markets, but the US launch model is 16GB only.
The Snapdragon X2 Elite inside is Qualcomm’s most powerful laptop chip to date. It uses an 18-core CPU built on a third-generation Oryon architecture, split into 12 prime cores and six performance cores. The 80 TOPS NPU is designed to run AI workloads locally rather than routing them to the cloud, a requirement for Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC designation.The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!
