Dell Latitude 7455 Is The Newest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Seeing Linux Patches
The Dell Latitude 7455 (X1E-80-100) is the latest laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC seeing patches for enabling Linux support.
Sent out today to the Linux kernel mailing list were the Device Tree patches and other changes for enabling the Dell Latitude 7455 (X1E-80-100) to boot. WIth these patches USB is working, WiFi and Bluetooth, display handling, keyboard / touchpad, and other basic features. But not yet enabled by these patches is the web camera along with the Iris video acceleration. The audio code also hasn't yet been sorted out and thus this laptop likely isn't suitable for daily use at this time under Linux.
In addition to no audio testing yet, the Dell Latitude Snapdragon laptop has an issue with NVMe storage dropping out when resuming from suspend, the WiFi adapter wasting ~1W of CPU power when NetworkManager is running due to increased CPU usage spikes, SDHC cards spewing I/O errors, and other SDHC issues.
It's still far from an ideal experience for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series laptops on Linux. More background information and benchmarks from my own testing earlier this month within Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux vs. AMD vs. Intel.
The Dell Latitude 7455 Linux patches can be found on the kernel mailing list. The Dell Latitude 7455 laptop with te Snapdragon X Plus, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and shipping with Windows 11 Pro retails for around $1.4k USD.
Sent out today to the Linux kernel mailing list were the Device Tree patches and other changes for enabling the Dell Latitude 7455 (X1E-80-100) to boot. WIth these patches USB is working, WiFi and Bluetooth, display handling, keyboard / touchpad, and other basic features. But not yet enabled by these patches is the web camera along with the Iris video acceleration. The audio code also hasn't yet been sorted out and thus this laptop likely isn't suitable for daily use at this time under Linux.
In addition to no audio testing yet, the Dell Latitude Snapdragon laptop has an issue with NVMe storage dropping out when resuming from suspend, the WiFi adapter wasting ~1W of CPU power when NetworkManager is running due to increased CPU usage spikes, SDHC cards spewing I/O errors, and other SDHC issues.
It's still far from an ideal experience for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series laptops on Linux. More background information and benchmarks from my own testing earlier this month within Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux vs. AMD vs. Intel.
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The Dell Latitude 7455 Linux patches can be found on the kernel mailing list. The Dell Latitude 7455 laptop with te Snapdragon X Plus, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and shipping with Windows 11 Pro retails for around $1.4k USD.