ASUS Zenbook A16 offers 48GB RAM for $1,599
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 laptop rollout has now reached retail. Best Buy has listed ASUS’s Zenbook A16 with Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme for $1,599.99. HP’s OmniBook Ultra 14 with standard Snapdragon X2 Elite, 32GB RAM, and 1TB storage is also live at $2,049.99.
At $1,599.99, it pairs Qualcomm’s top X2 tier with a 16-inch 2880 x 1800 OLED touch panel at 120Hz, plus 48GB of memory. That gives the first retail wave a better look than many early Copilot+ launches, at least on paper, because high-memory configurations usually land much higher than this.
Snapdragon X2 is Qualcomm’s second-generation Windows PC platform, announced in September 2025 and scheduled for device availability in the first half of 2026. Qualcomm positions Snapdragon X2 Elite as the premium tier and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme as the higher-end version for heavier workloads. The company says both target thin-and-light Copilot+ PCs and feature an 80 TOPS NPU, while Snapdragon X2 Elite claims up to 31% higher performance at ISO power and up to 43% lower power use than the previous generation.
The Elite branding also covers more than one SKU. Qualcomm’s current product page lists Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme with an 18-core CPU up to 5.0 GHz, alongside Snapdragon X2 Elite variants with either 18 cores or 12 cores up to 4.7 GHz. ASUS’s own pages show the larger Zenbook A16 using the X2 Elite Extreme, while the smaller Zenbook A14 uses the regular 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite and still keeps the same 80 TOPS NPU target.
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There are still no retail reviews attached to the live Best Buy pages, and I could not confirm a public review embargo date. That said, at least one Snapdragon X2 laptop is already available for pickup, which suggests the first full review wave should land soon.
Source: BestBuy
