Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86

ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What the how is Qualcomm competing with Samsung?

  Apple uses Samsung hardware, btw.

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  • Owljfien@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Samsung make exynos chips which are arm. But Samsung even uses qualcomm in their phones in other regions so it’s not unusual

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    • mihies@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exynos are subpar to Qualcomm arm chips, or at least they were not so far ago.

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      • jose1324@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They still are

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• UnityDevice@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure what you mean, they’ve always used Snapdragons? The S23 from 2023 uses one, and the S3 from 2012 uses them in some models, and most galaxies between those do as well.

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