TUXEDO Showcasing Linux Laptop Prototype with Qualcomm Snapdragon XElite

TapTechNews June 11th news, at the 2024 Computex Taipei, TUXEDO showcased a Linux laptop prototype, mainly featuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon XElite, and indicated that the product will be released by the end of 2024.

TUXEDO is a Linux manufacturer headquartered in Germany, and the first prototype demonstrated this time is named Drako, with a 16:10 IPS panel for the screen, a resolution of 2560x1600, and a peak brightness of 400 nits.

Drako adopts an aluminum body. In addition to the Qualcomm Snapdragon XElite processor, it is also equipped with 32GB LPDDR5X memory and a PCIe Gen4 solid-state drive with unknown capacity.

The laptop will run the Arm ported version of TuxedoOS, and TuxedoOS is a custom distribution based on Ubuntu's KDE Plasma.

Tuxedo's Linux computers usually are set to dual-boot with Windows and TuxedoOS, and Drako is likely to be the same.

TapTechNews reported in May this year that Qualcomm officially announced that its Snapdragon XElite will support the Linux system.

Qualcomm has begun to add functions to the Linux kernel, including NVMe over PCIe, sound machine drivers, PMC8380 PMIC, Pinctrl (TLMM), Phy (PCIe/eDP/USB), reference board support (CRD/QCP), and system cache.

In addition, Qualcomm also plans to conduct more CPU/GPU performance optimizations, power optimizations, end-to-end hardware video decoding for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers, libcamera SoftISP camera support, providing firmware in linux-firmware, and providing simple Linux distribution installer support.