The Snapdragon series for Windows ARM has come a long way in just a year with performance levels that now rival or often surpass top-end mobile Panther Lake-X or Zen 5 options.

Qualcomm does what Qualcomm does best: The Yoga Slim 7 14Q8Y11 is easily the longest-lasting 14-inch Yoga model in recent memory all thanks to its Snapdragon CPU.

The Intel Panther Lake option is up to $500 more expensive with very little to show for the upcharge against an otherwise similarly configured AMD Zen 5 option.

For more graphics power, users will want to consider the clamshell OmniBook X 14 over its 2-in-1 version as only the former comes with the highly praised Arc B390 integrated GPU.

The Ryzen 9 8940HX is great on gaming laptops where raw multi-thread performance often takes priority over integrated GPU or NPU performance.

The 240 W adapter leaves almost no overhead for charging when running demanding loads simultaneously such as games.