The first Windows laptops to ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite chips sold for $1,000 and up when they first hit the streets earlier this year. But in September Qualcomm introduced a new a lower-cost (and lower performance) chip designed for laptops with prices starting as low as $700.

Before you get excited, it's not the Snapdragon X Elite Gen 2 (or however Qualcomm decides to determine generations). It's a new, more entry-level tier chip that will sit below th