I’ve left the unit to sit on my end table for days, eventually picking it up to find my battery level had barely dropped. I managed to get 10 hours of use in a single day, and the standby time is equally fantastic. Thanks to the low-power Snapdragon 7c, the 32 Wh battery will last an entire workday and then some. The highlight of the HP Chromebook x2 11 is the battery life. To get a better idea about performance, here are a few benchmark results. Though it’s not like slow apps are the end of the world, many are functional enough to get work done. So even with 8GB RAM packed in, it would appear the bottleneck is the CPU when using Android and Linux apps. Playing Spotify through the Android app resulted in lag and skips in my music, all the while the PWA performs flawlessly.
And even though you’d think the Snapdragon chip would handle Android apps with aplomb, I found many of them were buggy and slow, and the eMMC storage isn’t especially helping this situation. Opening a Linux app takes too long (over a minute to open GIMP), though once you have something open, you can at least use the app without too much slowdown. But then there are Linux and Android apps, which can bog down the Snapdragon chip, especially the more demanding Linux apps.
