TUXEDO Computers recently announced it was scrapping its plans for a new laptop built around the Snapdragon X Elite (X1E) SoC. According to the announcement, the "first-generation X1E proved to be less suitable for Linux than expected."

In particular, TUXEDO Computers pointed to long battery runtimes. Battery life is typically a strong point of ARM devices, but the company was unable to achieve the hoped-for results. On top of that, high USB 4 transfer rates, BIOS updates, fan controllers, and virtualization with KVM are either missing at this point or not foreseeable for the current model.

Another reason for backing out of this is that, essentially, TUXEDO Computers would be releasing a laptop with a CPU that was more than two years old, with the X2 Elite (X2E) introduced in September 2025.

In its announcement, TUXEDO Computers also said, "We will continue to monitor developments and evaluate the X2E at the appropriate time for its Linux suitability." The announcement continued, "If it meets expectations and we can reuse a significant portion of our work on the X1E, we may resume development. How much of our groundwork can be transferred to the X2E can only be assessed after a detailed evaluation of the chip."

Fingers crossed, the X2E chip will find its way to a new TUXEDO Computers laptop in the near future.