In this video, I give an overview, teardown, and demonstration of the rarest laptop in my possession, a Qualcomm Snapdragon X-Elite based CRD8380X development laptop. This laptop is a very special device, as it was the first laptop ever produced with the new Snapdragon X-Elite and X-Plus SoCs, which are now commonplace on the "Microsoft Copilot" branded Windows on ARM laptops available today. In the video, I show the hardware of the device in great detail, dump a copy of the BIOS from its SPI-ROM, and do some performance testing. The specs of this machine are also quite impressive, most notably the inclusion of 64GB of LPDDR5 memory and the very nice 2880x1800 resolution OLED display.
BIOS dump:
https://dosdude1.com/files/bios_dumps/QUALCOMM-CRD8380X_EVT.zipGeekbench result:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/157035810:00 Intro
1:49 Exterior overview
5:19 The debug board
8:06 Booting the machine and checking hardware
11:52 Teardown and motherboard overview
15:09 Desoldering SPI-ROM and dumping BIOS
17:48 Internal hardware overview
22:14 Performance testing and conclusion
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