Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit: The CoPilot-est PC, tested

I want off Qualcomm's wild ride.

Links with more info and references:

Arrow product page for Dev Kit: https://www.arrow.com/en/products/c83...
ALL my test data: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-re...
Full teardown blog post: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...
Blog post explaining the saga of buying a unit: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...
Alex's video about the same:    • Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit mystery  
LTT video on using CoPilot laptops for a month:    • It’s Perfect. It’s Unusable. - Snapdragon ...  
DigiTimes Asia article on slow sales: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20240...
TWiT podcast speculating HDMI caused delays:    • Snapdragon Dev Kit's HDMI Situation  

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Contents:

00:00 - Delays for devs
02:02 - CoPilot+ failure to launch
04:10 - Unboxing the Dev Kit
05:20 - Teardown and internals
07:00 - Getting to the X Elite
08:21 - Windows 11 Home
08:48 - Fan noise
09:21 - Benchmarks and power consumption
10:08 - Small bugs and updates for days
10:48 - Firefox, Edge, and GPU acceleration
11:04 - Linux when?
12:08 - Microsoft must do this