Comment on Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor

• L_Acacia@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Windows is not fine with ARM, which can be a turnoff for some.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I bet it will be fine with arm fairly quickly now that these chips are on the horizon.

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    • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I doubt it. Many windows applications still are 32 bit only today. Visual studio only got 64 bit support in 2022. Windows has a long history of backwards compatibility and I would expect to be depending on software compatibility layers for a decade or more, even for some Microsoft products.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The 20 reference laptops doing the benchmarking in this article were running on windows…

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    • L_Acacia@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Being able to run benchmarks doesn’t make it is a great experience to use unfortunately. 3/4 of applications don’t run or have bugs that the devs don’t want to fix.

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      • daq@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Could you name a few? Just curious if its very specific stuff or apps I might actually use.

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• sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Most things are fine on arm these days

  MacOS? Yes. Linux? Sure. Android? Obviously. Windows? Not a chance!

  And seeing this is designed for laptops, your options will be either Linux or Windows. The comment is on point.

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The benchmarks from this article are running on Windows 11 Arm…

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    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh don’t get me wrong, it definitely runs!

      But have you tried using it as a daily drivers? Most things will break. I discovered this the hard way by installing it in a Raspberry Pi

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      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Was it just because it was arm, or because it was a raspberry pi and had too little of everything else windows likes to hog up? There’s several major laptop manufacturers that are planning to sell laptops with these. I doubt that would be the case if they were all functionally broken to the consumer.

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Caveat for all platforms running wine applications. So Linux is fine, except when running windows applications.

    Well, mostly, there do exist binary only Linux applications too. Business applications and also some games with native Linux support.

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• ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A lot of x86 software is still just emulated for arm, not native.

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