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BEST BUY LAPTOPS, TABLETS, WEARABLES
BEST
GAMING
LAPTOPS
PLUS:
OUR
PLUS
FAVOURITE
PC GAMES
MARCH 2019
Expert Microsoft
Oice tips and tricks
Qualcomm
announces
Snapdragon
8cx for PCs
CONTENTS
59
NEWS
4
11
REVIEWS
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8cx for PCs
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx reference laptop
16
26
37
Asus ZenBook 14
Chillblast Fusion
Juggernaut 2080
Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro
26
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CONTENTS
80
BUYING GUIDE
Best gaming laptops
Best PC games
59
80
MICROSOFT OFFICE SPECIAL
97
Use, modify, and create
templates in Word
Edit PDFs in Word
Use fonts in Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, and more
Master Excel’s best
hidden features
97
110
119
127
MARCH 2019
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NEWS
Qualcomm announces
Snapdragon 8cx for PCs
Due to ship Q3 2019, the 8cx will be the third Snapdragon chip
for PCs in about a year’s time.
MARK HACHMAN
reports
Q
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ualcomm’s efforts to put its Snapdragon
chips into PCs have historically run into one
major obstacle: the performance simply isn’t
competitive with that of chips from Intel and AMD.
Now Qualcomm is trying again, with what it’s calling
an ‘extreme’ version of the Snapdragon: the 8cx.
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MARCH 2019
NEWS
The firm is promising that the 8cx will offer the
equivalent performance of the competition’s 15-watt
processor offerings – though it’s not saying which
one. (Intel’s U-series Core chips consume 15 watts.)
At the same time, Qualcomm is promising more of
its traditional strength: an incredible 25 hours of
battery life, plus support for niceties such as LPDDR4X
memory, NVMe SSDs, USB 3.1, and four PCI Express
lanes. There’s Qualcomm QuickCharge, too.
Executives said that the company has already
designed the Snapdragon 835 and 845 for PCs, and
isn’t abandoning the old design. The 8cx has been
on the road map for some time, however, and is a
separate effort, designed from the ground up for PCs.
Like the Snapdragon 855, the 8cx is built on a
7nm process. That’s certainly an advantage AMD
and Intel can’t offer.
Snapdragons, fast and furious
Qualcomm executives freely admit that they’ve had
to build an ecosystem from essentially nothing, fixing
things and educating consumers on what an ‘Always
Connected PC’ means. After shipping the Snapdragon
835 into PCs like the Asus NovaGo in April 2018,
Qualcomm followed up with the Snapdragon 850 in
the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 in October.
Now it’s 2019, and there’s another Snapdragon for
PCs, the 8cx. While the 8cx is many months away –
expected to ship in devices during the third quarter
of 2019 – Qualcomm is essentially releasing three
separate Snapdragon chips for PCs in about a year’s
time. The 8cx will coexist alongside the Snapdragon
MARCH 2019
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